Latino Focused Course Offerings
FALL 2024
Course Title: Survey of Spanish American Literature from Columbus to Independence
Course Prefix and Number: SPAN 4342 (CRN 25907)
Course Description: Study of Spanish American literature from the colonial period through the 19th century,
with an emphasis on the development of Spanish American national literatures through
the Baroque, Neo-Classical, and Romantic literary movements. Taught in Spanish.
Course Instructor: Dr. Raquel Chiquillo
Online
Course Title: Latinx Theatre and Performance Course Prefix and Number: DRA 3301-1 / HUM 3340 (CRN 23902 / 25684)
Course Description: A survey of Latinx Theatre as a cultural and political force both within and outside
of the United States with emphasis on issues including heritage and identity, labor,
gender and sexuality, generation gaps in Latinx cultures, interculturalism, and relationships
between Latinx cultures, Latin American nations, and the United States.
Course Instructor: Benito Vasquez
T/Th 10-11:15
Course Title: Minority Studies
Course Prefix and Number: SOC 2319 (CRN 23926)
Course Description: Explores the social construction of meaning associated with concepts of minority/majority
status, race, and ethnicity. Issues may include assimilation, pluralism, subcultural
diversity, and intergroup relations in past and present American society. Various
theoretical perspectives will inform discussion.
Course Instructor: TBA
Online
Course Title: World Migration
Course Prefix and Number: SOC 4309 (CRN 24624)
Course Description: Examines the diversity of origin and incorporation of immigrants in developed countries.
Focus on types of immigrants and their processes of economic, political, social, cultural
or psychological adaptation; present realities of contemporary global migration in
the context of competing theories in the social sciences; and the immigration policies
of western nations.
Course Instructor: Dr. Mohsen Mobasher
Online
Course Title: Race, Ethnicity and Communication
Course Prefix and Number: COMM 3313 (CRN 22336 / 22337)
Course Description: The inextricable and multidimensional relationship between race and communication.
Students will understand how to transcend race using communication capital as a means
of developing effective interactions. Specific attention to the construction of one's
own racial/ethnic identity as well as those of other groups. Part I of the course
will cover various foundations of interracial communication including topics such
as language, identity, history, cultural influences, and theories. Part II will draw
from this foundation and discuss interracial communication in a number of contexts
such as in relationships, organizations, and the mass media.
Course Instructor: TBA
Online
Course Prefix and Number: History of Mexico
Course Prefix and Number: HIST 3308 (CRN 23525)
Course Description: Mexico from its Indigenous origins to its present position as a burgeoning American
power. The influence of the nation’s cultural heritage and the reformist impulses
of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Course Instructor: Dr. Peter Soland
Online
Course Title: Latin American History
Course Prefix and Number: HIST 3318 (CRN 22638 / 24147)
Course Description: This course covers the history of Latin America from pre-Columbian civilizations,
through the conquistadors, the colonial period, and the wars of independence. The
primary focus of the course is the 19th and 20th centuries.
Course Instructor: Dr. Pedro Acuna Rojas
Online; T/Th 1 – 2:45PM
Course Title: Special Topics in History: Cold War in Latin America and the Caribbean Course Prefix and Number: HIST 4390 (CRN 25632)
Course Description: Explore Cold War History in Latin America and the Caribbean. Learn about: The Cuban
Revolution, The Dirty Wars, Root Causes of Latin America Migration, Why the Kremlin
(supposedly) hates bananas, and much more.
Course Instructor: Dr. Peter Soland
M/W 1 – 2:15PM
Course Title: Special Topics in History: History of Soccer
Course Prefix and Number: HIST 4390 (CRN 25633)
Course Description: Explore Cold War History in Latin America and the Caribbean. Learn about: The Cuban
Revolution, The Dirty Wars, Root Causes of Latin America Migration, Why the Kremlin
(supposedly) hates bananas, and much more.
Course Instructor: Dr. Pedro Ignacio Acuña Rojas
T/Th 10:00 – 11:15AM
Course Title: Introduction to Latino Studies
Course Prefix and Number: LATS 1301 (CRN 23380 / 24300 / 24301)
Course Description: This course offers students a broad interdisciplinary survey of the origins, cultures,
experiences, and conditions of Latinos-people of various Latin American and Caribbean
heritages-in the United States in the past and present. Through documentaries, films,
and literary texts we will explore topics such as identity, migration, environmental
crisis, and politics. For example, we will consider migration histories between Latin
America and the U.S, Chicanx activism in California and Texas, and tensions that contemporary
Puerto Rican artists are experiencing in a moment of mass culture consumption and
tourist colonization.
Course Instructor: Dr. Fernell Jimenez-Pabon
M 8:30 – 9:45; M 10:00 – 11:15; M 11:30 – 12:45
Course Title: Mexican American Literature
Course Prefix and Number: ENG 3322 (CRN 23249)
Course Description: A study of Mexican-American literature and its cultural traditions from pre-Columbian
Mexico to the present.
Course Instructor: Dr. Sandra Dahlberg
T/Th 1:00 – 2:15PM
Course Title: Teaching Language Arts and Reading in Spanish
Course Prefix and Number: BED 4301 (CRN 22181 / 22182 / 23365 / 23783 / 25255)
Course Description: Field-based course that applies language arts and reading techniques in Spanish
through interaction with urban students and teachers in a bilingual classroom.
Course Instructor: Dr. Laura Ann Mitchell, Dr. Elizabeth Wood Stackhouse
M 9 – 11:45; T 5:30 – 8:15; W 6:00 – 8:45
Course Title: Health and Culture
Course Prefix and Number: HEA 3305 (CRN 23930)
Course Description: This course introduces the concept of culture as one framework for understanding the
relation between culture and health. More specifically, the course examines culturally-shaped
definitions, of health/wellbeing; illness causation and treatment theories, understandings
of health risk; connections between culture, health and stigma, healing/curing traditions;
the relation between health risk (vulnerability) and socio-cultural structures; gender
and health; and the meaning of cultural competency.
Course Instructor: Nkemdilim Chineye Anako
Online
Course Title: Latin American Philosophy
Course Prefix and Number: PHIL 3341 (CRN 25251)
Course Description: This course is an introduction to philosophy in Latin American and Latinx traditions.
Topics covered will include the distinctive contributions of Latin American and Latinx
philosophers to ongoing debates in Western philosophy, as well as philosophical responses
to questions of Latin American and Latinx identity.
Course Instructor: Joseph Westfall
Online