Pilar Zazueta

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

The class is designed as a professional development course to enhance core analytical and writing skills that will be useful for students after graduation. The goal is for students to master the strategies that will allow them to conduct successful research projects. 

The long 1960s was a tumultuous time even by Latin American standards. Revolutionaries, indigenous leaders, students, feminists, liberation theologians, hippies and other groups proposed new ways of seeing the world, addressing social problems and participating in politics. In this course we will address some of the following questions: What was the impact of the Cuban revolution in Latin American politics? How did student movements develop in the region and what was their political and cultural influence? What role did the left play in the transformation of education, medicine, and social policy? How did gender roles and women’s participation on public life change during this time? 

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

The course aims to acquaint students with the richness, complexity and diversity of historical experiences and cultural practices in Latin America through an array of source materials that include historical monographs, ethnography, testimonial literature, fiction, music, film, and documentaries.  Through a sample of case studies culled from throughout the region, the course will shed light on the processes, structures, and forces that have shaped Latin America.  Topics include:  pre-Columbian civilizations, Iberian expansionism and the Conquest of Latin America; Church in colonial Latin America;  sugar plantations in Brazil and the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Independence movements; agro-export economies; U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean Basin; populism, urbanization , and import-substitution industrialization; popular culture, art, literature and music; revolutionary alternatives; the Cold War in Latin America and state-sponsored violence; transnational flows of capital and labor.

Texts:

Thomas Skidmore and Peter Smith, Modern Latin America

Mark Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote

Grading:

- Attendance and Classroom Participation (10%)

- Two in-class exams (30%)

-One 2-3 pp. book review (20%).  Essay topic for book review will be handed out one week in advance of due date.  Grade for book review will be based on organization, development and clarity of argument; substantiation of thesis through textual material; and elegance of prose.

-Final Exam (40%)

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

The Capstone Research Course is a required course of the revised major in Latin American Studies. The class strongly emphasizes both multidisciplinary readings and analysis and the development of academic research and writing skills. Over the course of the semester, students will write and research  an original  term paper on a topic discussed with the course instructor. This course carries the Independent Enquiry Flag and the Writing Flag. 

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

The Capstone Research Course is a required course of the revised major in Latin American Studies. The class strongly emphasizes both multidisciplinary readings and analysis and the development of academic research and writing skills. Over the course of the semester, students will write and research  an original  term paper on a topic discussed with the course instructor.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Latin America in the Sixties: Counterculture and Social Movements

The long 1960s was a tumultuous time even by Latin American standards. Revolutionaries, indigenous leaders, students, feminists, liberation theologians, hippies and other groups proposed new ways of seeing the world, addressing social problems and participating in politics. In this course we will address some of the following questions: What was the impact of the Cuban revolution in Latin American politics? How did student movements develop in the region and what was their political and cultural influence? What role did the left play in the transformation of education, medicine, and social policy? How did gender roles and women’s participation on public life change during this time? 

Everyone eats, but seldom do we think about the complex transactions involved in getting food from the field to our table. The bananas in the produce section traveled thousands of miles from a plantation in Central America, while the coffee we drink at Starbucks was probably harvested in the Colombian highlands or the coast of Brazil. The purpose of this course is to learn about the histories of a wide range of actors involved in the food system, broadly classifiable into producers, consumers, and intermediaries, many of them playing more than one role. In particular, we will explore food production and consumption in the Americas as broad transnational processes, in which not only economic exchanges take place but also other types of cultural and scientific interactions. As the goal of this class is to use history and social sciences to explore the supermarket aisles from all possible angles, we will also analyze food cultures and cookery, the concept of “ethnic” cuisine and nutritional policies in the region.

Sexuality and gender are very useful analytical tools to explore how relations of power are constituted not only in the private sphere but also in state institutions, market and labor organization, as well as class and racial hierarchies. The core question we will address in this course is how differences (particularly between humans classified as female or male) were constructed in the history of Latin America. We will analyze the uses, implementations and transformations of these differences in the articulation of social and political life in the continent. The class will focus mostly on nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin America and will emphasize historical research, but we will also use scholarship from other disciplines.

The class will cover topics like nineteenth-century honor and citizenship, contemporary masculinities, and human rights in the twentieth century.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Sexuality and gender are very useful analytical tools to explore how relations of power are constituted not only in the private sphere but also in state institutions, market and labor organization, as well as class and racial hierarchies. The core question we will address in this course is how differences (particularly between humans classified as female or male) were constructed in the history of Latin America. We will analyze the uses, implementations and transformations of these differences in the articulation of social and political life in the continent. The class will focus mostly on nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin America and will emphasize historical research, but we will also use scholarship from other disciplines.

The class will cover topics like nineteenth-century honor and citizenship, contemporary masculinities, and human rights in the twentieth century.

Please check back for updates.

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Sexuality and gender are very useful analytical tools to explore how relations of power are constituted not only in the private sphere but also in state institutions, market and labor organization, as well as class and racial hierarchies. The core question we will address in this course is how differences (particularly between humans classified as female or male) were constructed in the history of Latin America. We will analyze the uses, implementations and transformations of these differences in the articulation of social and political life in the continent. The class will focus mostly on nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin America and will emphasize historical research, but we will also use scholarship from other disciplines.

The class will cover topics like nineteenth-century honor and citizenship, contemporary masculinities, and human rights in the twentieth century.