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Winter 2013

LASC COURSES

AMST328R Perspectives on Identity and Culture: From Ricky Ricardo to Jennifer Lopez: Exploring Latina/o Gender & Sexuality in Popular Culture (Also offered as USLT498L)

KNES131D Coed Dance: Salsa (Beginning)

SPAN222 Cultural Difference in Contemporary Latin America

SPAN303 Approaches to Cultural Materials in the Hispanic World

Study Abroad

ARHU369C Santiago, and Valparaiso, Chile: Chilean Literature, Democracy, and Social Change (Also offered as CMLT498C/GVPT309F/HIST329N/HONR349C)

BSCI279M Belize City and San Ignacio, Belize: Mayan Culture and the Interface between Tropical Rainforests and Coral Reefs

CPSP379E San Salvador, El Salvador: El s Children: Risk Poverty and Education (Also offered as EDSP488B/EDSP788B)

EDCP318C Cuenca and Quito, Ecuador: Leadership, Culture, and Service

EDCP318Z San Salvador, El Salvador: Faith, Spirituality, and Leadership

HONR278O Belize City and Belmopan, Belize: Exploring Issues and Challenges of Globalization in Belize

PLSC489K Monteverde and San Jose, Costa Rica: Sustainable Tropical Ecosystems (Also offered as HONR 379K)

SOCY498C FlorianSalvadorpppolis, Brazil: Exploring Brazil through Work, Culture, and Race

SPAN448E Quito, Ecuador: Andean Spaces

Spring 2013

LASC COURSES

LASC235 Issues in Latin American Studies II

LASC235H Issues in Latin American Studies II

LASC348B Special Topics in Latin American Studies: Exploring Cultural Representations of Brazil

LASC448I Special Topics in Latin American Studies: Latin American and Caribbean Thought

ELECTIVE COURSES

Undergraduate Courses:

AMST498K Special Topics in American Studies: Indigenous Thought in the AmericasTop of Form

AMST498M Special Topics in American Studies: Latinas/os and U.S. Popular Culture (Also offered as USLT498B)

ARTH255Art and society in the Modern American World

CMLT277 Literatures of the Americas

CMLT498F Selected Topics in Comparative Studies: The Americas in Film

EDCP418C Special Topics in Leadership: Latino Leadership

ENGL289Z Aliens, Exiles, Immigrants: Literature and EmigrationTop of Form

ENGL362 Caribbean Literature in English

ENGL448A Literature by Women of Color: Caribbean Literature by Women

GEOG413Migration: Latin America and the United States

HIST251 Latin America since Independence

HIST408QSenior Seminar: Cultures of the Cuban RevolutionTop of FormBottom of Form

HIST466Immigration and Ethnicity in the U.S.

HIST473 History of the Caribbean

HONR268LHonors Seminar: United States Immigration Issues

HONR269EHonors Seminar: Exploring Key Issues of Globalization

HONR289DHonors Seminar: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on American Immigration

LGBT448M Special Topics in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Tra nsgender Studies: Advanced Study of Queer Latina/o Cultures: Migration and Sexuality (Also offered as AMST328A and USLT498F)

MUSC438D: Music of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru

PORT409B Special Topics in Brazilian Literature: Exploring Cultural Representations of Brazil

SPAN303 Approaches to Cultural Materials in the Hispanic World

SPAN362 Latin American Literatures and Cultures II: From Independence to Nation Formation

SPAN363 Latin American Literatures and Cultures III: From Modernism to Neo-Liberalism

SPAN408C Great Themes of the Hispanic Literatures: Paradise Lost: Cuban Cinematic Culture

SPAN408D Great Themes of the Hispanic Literatures:Hoy: Constructing the Present. An Itinerary through the Southern Cone

SPAN415Commercial Spanish II

SPAN422Cross-Cultural Communication

SPAN426Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics II: Language in Use

USLT202 US Latina/o Studies II: A Contemporary Overview 1960's to present 

USLT488B US Latina/o Senior Seminar

USLT498K US Latina/o Studies: Special Topics: The Diversifying U.S.: Globalization, Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees

Graduate Courses:

ARTH768 Seminar in Latin American Art and Archaeology

BUSI788B Introduction to Global Business Experience: Doing Business in Brazil: Emerging Global Companies

ECON615 Economic Development of Less-Developed Areas

ENGL748ESeminar in American Literature: Writing the Apocalypse in Hemispheric American Literatures, 1500-2000

GEOG788MSelected Topics in Geography: Migration: Latin America and the United States

SPAN798COpen Seminar: Latin American Literature

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Latin American Studies Center
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College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-6459
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Email: lasc@umd.edu