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Course

LAIS / ARTH 160   Survey of Latin American Art

Professor

Susan Aberth

CRN

95377

 

Schedule

Tu Th          1:00 – 2:20 pm     OLIN 102

Distribution

OLD: A/D

NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Cross-listed: LAIS (core course), SRE

Related interest: Africana Studies

A broad overview of art and cultural production in Latin America, including South and Central America, Mexico, and the hispanophone Caribbean. A survey of major pre-Columbian monuments is followed by an examination of the contact between Europe and the Americas during the colonial period, 19th-century Eurocentrism, and the reaffirmation of national identity in the modern era.

 

Course

LAIS / PS 153    Latin American Politics & Society

Professor

Omar Encarnacion

CRN

95448

 

Schedule

Mon Wed     3:00 – 4:20 pm  OLIN 306

Distribution

OLD: C

NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, LAIS (core course)

This course examines political life in Latin America in the postcolonial period.  The course covers the entire region but emphasizes the most representative countries:  Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru.  The overarching purpose of the course is to understand change and continuity in this region.  We will endeavor to accomplish this by emphasizing both the historical development of institutions and political actors in Latin America (e.g. the state, capital, labor, the church, the military) as well as the variety of theoretical frameworks that scholars have constructed to understand the dynamics of political development throughout the region (e.g. modernization, dependencia, and political culture).  Among the major themes covered in the course are the legacies of European colonialism, state building, revolution, corporatism and populism, military rule, and redemocratization. Open to all students.

 

Course

LAIS / PS 345  The  Politics of Economic Development

Professor

Nara Dillon

CRN

95195

 

Schedule

Tu               1:30 - 3:50 am       OLIN 101

Distribution

OLD: C

NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, LAIS and Asian Studies

This seminar explores the intersection between politics and economics, centering on the vital problem of economic development.  We will explore some of the fundamental questions of political economy: What is development?  Are some political systems “better” at economic development than others?  Is there a trade-off between political freedom and economic growth?  How does economic development affect politics?  The first third of the course provides a broad overview of the dominant theoretical approaches to political economy.  After this orientation, the rest of the course will be devoted to examining contemporary issues and problems of development.  Topics covered include inequality, labor, democratic transitions, post-communist transitions, structural adjustment, globalization, and the reversal of development.  Empirical cases will be drawn from almost every region in the world, especially Europe, East Asia and Latin America.

 

Course

LAIS / SPAN 301   Interpretation of Hispanic Texts

Professor

Ronald Briggs

CRN

95081

 

Schedule

Tu Th          1:00 -2:20 pm       OLIN 304

Distribution

OLD: B/D

NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

(LAIS core course)

This course will explore Spanish literature through a variety of lenses that will range from the essays of Benito Jerónimo Feijoo to the 19th century realist narrative of Leopoldo Alas Clarín and Benito Pérez Galdós, to the twentieth century chronicles, in verse and prose, of the series of political and social spasms that culminate in the Spanish Civil War. The course will begin at the end of the 18th century, when Spain’s intellectuals are preaching gradual reforms (a recipe that will soon be destroyed by Napoleon’s invasion and the popular resistance it spawns) and continue through the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. Special attention will be paid to the “generations” of 1898 and 1927 and the links between poetic and novelistic expression and the philosophical debates raging behind the scenes. The basic question of self-identity—what does it mean to be Spanish? (vis à vis Europe, the Americas, and the rest of Western Culture)—will serve as a point of departure. Texts will be read in the original Spanish with a particular emphasis on developing close textual readings. Class discussion and written assignments will also be in Spanish.