Latin American Studies 1 Moramay López-Alonso LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Fabiola López-Durán Contact Information Assistant Professor Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures Margarita Castromán Soto https://cultures.rice.edu For Rice University degree-granting programs: 207 Rayzor Hall To view the list of official course offerings, please see Rice’s 713-348-4868 Course Catalog (https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat? Christian J. Emden p_action=cata) Department Chair To view the most recent semester’s course schedule, please see Rice's [email protected] Course Schedule (https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat) Latin American Studies (LASR) Latin American Studies is an interdisciplinary major offered by the LASR 158 - INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures (MCLC) Department, Short Title: INTRO LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES designed to further understanding of the cultures, histories, and politics Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture of Latin America as viewed from regional and global perspectives. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture This major draws from courses and faculty from a wide range of Distribution Group: Distribution Group I departments and programs, including Anthropology, Architecture, Art Credit Hours: 3 History, English, French Studies, History, Spanish and Portuguese, Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Political Science, and Sociology. This major provides a challenging Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. context for students to develop core skills in interdisciplinarity, language, Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level communication (written and oral), theory, research methodologies, and Description: This course immerses students into Caribbean and Latin geography. American studies by introducing them to the history, society, politics, and culture of the region, through a cross-disciplinary and a multi-national Bachelor's Program approach. Taught in English. Open to all students. Cross-list: SPPO 158. • Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree with a Major in Latin American Studies LASR 238 - SPECIAL TOPICS (https://ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/ Short Title: SPECIAL TOPICS humanities/latin-american-studies/latin-american-studies-ba/) Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Latin American Studies does not currently offer an academic program at Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Seminar, the graduate level. Independent Study, Lecture/Laboratory Credit Hours: 1-4 Chair Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Christian J. Emden Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Program Advisor Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit. José F. Aranda, Jr. LASR 251 - CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN BRAZILIAN HISTORY Short Title: BRAZIL: CONTINUITY & CHANGE Professors Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture José F. Aranda, Jr. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Krista Comer Course Type: Lecture Luis Duno-Gottberg Distribution Group: Distribution Group I Farès El-Dahdah Credit Hours: 3 Beatriz González-Stephan Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Gisela Heffes Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Rosemary Hennessy Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Carlos Jiménez Description: An exploration of themes essential to understanding Mark P. Jones modern Brazil, such as the origins of a multi-racial society, the transition Alida C. Metcalf from monoculture to industry, authoritarian and democratic trends, M. Rafael Salaberry the emergence of a uniquely Brazilian culture, and the conflicts - Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer environmental, political, and economic - over the development of the Amazon. Cross-list: HIST 251. Associate Professors Alexander X. Byrd Sophie Esch A. Cymene Howe 2021-2022 General Announcements PDF Generated 09/23/21 2 Latin American Studies LASR 350 - PIRATES, REBELS, NARCOS: LATIN AMERICAN OUTLAWS IN LASR 375 - LATINA AND AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ACTIVISM IN THE POLITICAL-CULTURAL IMAGINATION THE URBAN METROPOLIS Short Title: PIRATES, REBELS, NARCOS Short Title: WOMEN'S ACTIVISM URBAN METRO Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture Course Type: Seminar Distribution Group: Distribution Group I Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: This course will investigate the contemporary writings of Description: The outlaw is a central figure in the political-cultural Latina and African American women in urban spaces across the U.S. imagination on Latin America. Through a study of popular culture and Understanding these women's experiences in relationship to each other literature, this course provides a critical exploration of this figure: from will reveal the shared, yet distinct, trajectories that orient their struggle to pirates and runaway slaves in colonial times, to nineteenth century resist poverty, racism, homophobia, and sexual and reproductive violence. bandits, and more recently guerrillas and narcos. Taught in English. Cross-list: SWGS 375. Recommended Prerequisite(s): LASR 158 LASR 376 - CHICANA AND LATINA EXPERIENCE THRU FILM LASR 373 - WOMEN'S SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE Short Title: CHICANA/LATINA EXP THRU FILM CARIBBEAN Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Short Title: WOMEN'S SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Grade Mode: Standard Letter Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Course Type: Seminar Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Lecture Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Credit Hours: 3 Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Description: This seminar explores the Chicana and Latina experience in Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level the U.S. We examine these women's response to each other and forces Description: The course will examine the historical development of of conquest, capitalism, and patriarchy. Novels, oral life histories, film, women's social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. We and art will be used to interrogate these women's conceptualization and will explore how they are transforming the region through their diverse assertion of feminism, activism, and history. Cross-list: SWGS 376. forms of political engagement. This is a lecture/seminar course that LASR 378 - LATIN AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT: IDENTITY, emphasizes writing and discussion. Cross-list: SWGS 373. LIBERATION, MODERNITY LASR 374 - FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA Short Title: LATIN AM. POLITICAL THOUGHT Short Title: FEM THEORY IN AFRICAN DIASPORA Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture Course Type: Seminar Distribution Group: Distribution Group I Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: This course provides an interdisciplinary overview of the Description: This course gives students an overview of the main thinkers, body of Black feminist and queer theory that has emerged within the last currents, concepts, and topics in Latin American and Latinx political forty years. We will examine these frameworks in order to understand thought. It is organized around three modules that address central topics: how racial difference shapes gender and sexual identities. This is a identity & transculturation; liberation; and modernity. Taught in English. seminar that emphasizes research and discussion. Cross-list: SWGS 374. Counts toward the minor in PLST. 2021-2022 General Announcements PDF Generated 09/23/21 Latin American Studies 3 LASR 390 - RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGY, LASR 492 - DIRECTED RESEARCH CULTURE & SOCIETY IN LATIN AMERICA Short Title: DIRECTED RESEARCH Short Title: TECH CULTURE & SOC IN LATIN AM Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Research Course Type: Lecture Credit Hours: 3 Distribution Group: Distribution Group I Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Credit Hours: 3 Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Description: Independent research and investigation on any aspect of Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Latin America, Latin American studies,