(See all classes listed
under Spanish.)
Course |
LAIS / ARTH 160 Survey of Latin American Art |
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Professor |
Susan Aberth |
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CRN |
95377 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:00 – 2:20 pm OLIN 102 |
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Distribution |
OLD: A/D |
NEW: ANALYSIS
OF ARTS / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE
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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 |
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Professor |
Omar Encarnacion |
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CRN |
95448 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 3:00 – 4:20 pm OLIN 306 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: SOCIAL
SCIENCE
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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 |
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Professor |
Nara Dillon |
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CRN |
95195 |
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Schedule |
Tu 1:30 - 3:50 am OLIN 101 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: SOCIAL
SCIENCE / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE
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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 |
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Professor |
Ronald Briggs |
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CRN |
95081 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 304 |
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Distribution |
OLD: B/D |
NEW: FOREIGN
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE
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(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.