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SISLA 120 Introduction to Human Rights in Latin America (5) I&S Godoy
Overview of human rights issues and how they have evolved in recent Latin American history, from the military dictatorships of the authoritarian period to contemporary challenges faced in the region' s democracies. Credit not allowed if LSJ 470/SIS 410 already taken.
SISLA 280 Indigenous Encounters: Politics, Culture, and Representation in Latin America (5) I&S Garcia
Explores the contemporary cultural and political transformations advanced by indigenous groups and their advocates in Latin America. Examines the concept of indigeneity, the cultural politics of indigenous mobilization, and the effects of international development policies on indigenous communities. Offered: jointly with CHID 280.
Instructor Course Description:
Maria E Garcia
SISLA 322 International Political Economy of Latin America (5) I&S
Exploration of politics underlying Latin America' s economic development. Topics covered include import-substituting industrialization, mercantilism, the debt crisis, neoliberalism, market integration, and poverty. Review of major theoretical perspectives such as modernization theory, dependency, and the new political economy. Offered: jointly with POL S 322.
SISLA 342 Government and Politics of Latin America (5) I&S Gill, Lucero
Analysis of the political dynamics of change in Latin America comparing various national approaches to the political problems of modernization, economic development, and social change. Offered: jointly with POL S 342.
Instructor Course Description:
Erik M Wibbels
Lisa M. Glidden
SISLA 355 Social Change in Latin America (5) I&S Warren
Explores cultures, identities, political economy, and popular mobilization in Latin America. Examines relations of power and production between social classes and ethnic groups, as well as ideologies and intellectual movements. Offered: jointly with SOC 355.
Instructor Course Description:
Jonathan W. Warren
SISLA 399 Study Abroad: Latin American Studies (1-5, max. 15) I&S
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
SISLA 451 Cultural Geography of Latin America (5) I&S
Interdisciplinary senior seminar examining how physical and social geographies are culturally constructed and interconnected with subjectivities and power in Latin America. Topics include identity formation grounded in particular territories and the social constitution of space via an interplay of material and cultural forces. Offered: jointly with GEOG 451.
SISLA 470 Latin American Studies Internship (1-5, max. 10)
Off-campus fieldwork with a community national, or international organization, in an apprenticeship or internship situation. Supervised by on-site field supervisor and Latin American Studies faculty member.
SISLA 480 Labor and Popular Movements in Latin America (5) I&S
Interdisciplinary approach to origins and trajectory of labor movement from late nineteenth century to present. Emphasis in contemporary period on popular movements, including neighborhood associations, religious base communities, women' s movement, and ethnic mobilization for democratic social and political reform. Recommended: two non-language Latin American studies courses. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 480.
SISLA 483 Technology and Culture in the Making of Contemporary Empires (5) I&S Benitez, Rodriguez-Sliva
Explores struggles shaping organization of US empire in the early twentieth century, focusing on sites where empire' s material, cultural, and ideological boundaries were drawn and contested. Includes race, gender and class as colonial formation; technologies of imperial governance such as public health, citizenship, and territory. Offered: jointly with HIST 483; W.
SISLA 486 Photography and Cultural Studies in Latin America (5) I&S/VLPA Steele
Interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between visual anthropology (ethnography through photography and film), documentary and art photography, and colonial and post-colonial discourse in Latin America during the twentieth century. Prerequisite: either SPAN 303 or SPAN 316; SPAN 322; one additional SPAN 300-level course beyond 303. Offered: jointly with SPAN 486.
SISLA 487 The Cultural Politics of Violence in Contemporary Latin America (5) I&S Garcia
Examines notions of "otherness" and the power to label as central to understanding the construction of political order, human rights, and social struggle. Uses academic texts, films, documentaries, historical fiction, plays, and testimonials to interrogate the complexities of violence and social justice in Latin America. Offered: jointly with CHID 487.
SISLA 489 The Mexico-U.S. Border in Literature and Film (5) I&S/VLPA Steele
Analysis of the Mexico-U.S. Border region in literature and film of the 1990s and early 2000s. Includes migration, tourism, NGOs, globalization, transnational commerce, multiculturalism, and politics of gender, sexuality and race. Prerequisite: either SPAN 303 or SPAN 316; either SPAN 321 or SPAN 322; one additional 300-level course above SPAN 303. Offered: jointly with SPAN 489.
Instructor Course Description:
Cynthia Steele
SISLA 490 Special Topics (1-5, max. 15) I&S
Content varies.
Instructor Course Description:
Cynthia Steele
Jose A Lucero
Maria E Garcia
SISLA 492 Latin American Studies Seminar (5, max. 15) I&S
Instructor Course Description:
Jose A Lucero
Maria S Barbon
O'Neill Blacker-Hanson
Stephanie M. H. Camp
SISLA 499 Undergraduate Research (1-5, max. 15)
