Academics

Courses

Courses Approved for the Major, Minor and M.A. Program

Most Latin American Studies courses are offered through disciplinary departments.  Below is a preliminary list of courses offered for FALL 2013 at the University of Illinois. 

If you are an undergraduate major or minor in Latin American Studies, a student in the Master program, or a FLAS recipient you must consult with the LAST Advisor, Angelina Cotler (cotler@uiuc.edu; 333-8419) before registering for courses. Students are responsible for checking the Online Timetable for course details and current information. New Courses appear before classes start.

FALL 2013

Quechua (all levels)

  • LAST 445 Native American Languages

LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

  • PORT 200 Advanced Grammar
  • PORT 400 Intensive Beginning Portuguese
  • PORT 401 Intermediate Portuguese
  • SPAN 103 Intermediate Spanish
  • SPAN 122 Elementary Spanish   
  • SPAN 141 Introduction to Spanish Grammar
  • SPAN 142 Spanish in the Professions
  • SPAN 202 Spanish for Business
  • SPAN 204 Practical Review of Spanish
  • SPAN 208 Oral Spanish
  • SPAN 228 Spanish Composition
  • SPAN 232 Spanish in the Community
  • SPAN 252 Intro Hispanic Linguistics
  • SPAN 303 The Sounds of Spanish
  • SPAN 305 The Structure of Spanish
  • SPAN 309 Varieties of Spoken Spanish
  • SPAN 410 Spanish/English Translation
  • SPAN 430 Spanish Phonology
  • SPAN 433 Spanish Sociolinguistics

Required for undergraduate majors

  • LAST 170 Introduction to Latin American Studies
  • LAST 490 Independent Study (arranged)

Required for graduate majors

  • LAST 599 Thesis Research (for LAST MA students only)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE

  • ANTH 103 Anthropology in a Changing World
  • ANTH 105 World Archeology
  • ANTH 209 Food, Culture and Society
  • ANTH 224 Tourist Cities and Sites
  • ANTH 230 Sociocultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 515 (CS1) Socio-cultural Theory and Ethnography
  • GEOG 101 Geography of Developing Countries
  • GEOG 104 Social and Cultural Geography
  • GEOG 106/ESE 106 Geographies of Globalization
  • GEOG 110 Geography of International Conflicts
  • GEOG 204 Cities of the World
  • UP 210 Environmental Economics
  • UP 260 Social Inequality & Planning
  • UP 335 Cities and Immigrants
  • UP 423 Intro to International Planning
  • UP 521 International Planning Seminar

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

  • HIST 100 Global History
  • HIST 105 Latin America to Independence
  • HIST 200 (A) Culture and Counterculture in Latin America
  • HIST 205 Latin America History: primary Accounts
  • HIST 280 Caribbean Latina/o Migration
  • HIST 507 Problems in Latin American History: Commodity Chains: Visualizing Primary Goods Relations of Production in Latin American

HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE

  • AFRO 310/LLS 310 Race and Cultural Diversity
  • ARTH 442 Arts of Colonial Latin America
  • CWL 199 (DIS) From Novel to Film
  • CWL 241 Literature Europe and the Americas 1
  • DANC 310 World Dance Forms: Capoeira
  • EPS 310 Race and Cultural Diversity
  • EPS 530 Education and Globalization
  • LING 111 Language in Globalization
  • LLS 280 Caribbean Latina/o Migration
  • LLS310 Race and cultural diversity
  • LLS 320 Gender Latina/o Migration
  • MUS 110  Introduction Art Music: International Perspective
  • MUS 133  Introduction to World Music
  • PORT 199 Undergraduate Seminar: Introduction to Brazilian Studies
  • PORT 404 Luso-Brazilian Culture
  • PORT 404 Studies in Brazilian Literature
  • SPAN 200 Readings in Hispanic Texts
  • SPAN 250 Introduction to Literary Analysis
  • SPAN 254 Introduction to Cultural Analysis
  • SPAN 314 Latin American Lit I. Topic: Ecocriticism and Nature Writing in Colonial Spanish America
  • SPAN 316 Latin American Literatures II
  • SPAN 320 Spanish Cultural Studies II
  • SPAN 324 Cultural Studies Americas I. Topic: Visual Culture of Colonial Spanish America
  • SPAN 326 Cultural Studies Americas II.  Section C: Contemporary Luso-Hispanic Film: Approaches to Fiction Cinema in Latin America
  • SPAN 467 19th C Spanish American Studies. Topic: Territorial Fictions: Space, Borders, and Boundaries in 19C Latin America

SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

  • BADM 382 International Business
  • ECON 420 International Economics
  • ECON 450 Developing Economies
  • GWS 150 Contemporary Women’s Issues
  • GWS 320 Gender Latina/o Migration
  • GWS 385 Transnational sexualities
  • LAST 199 Underg Seminar: Introduction to Brazilian Studies
  • PS 240 Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • PS 280 Introduction to International Relations
  • PS 353 Government & Politics of Latin America
  • SOC 160 Global Inequality and Social Change
  • SOC 225 Race and Ethnicity
  • SOC 261 Gender Transnational Perspective
  • SOC 321 Gender Latina/o Migration
  • SOC 367 Globalization Dynamic Debates
  • SOC 447 Environmental Sociology
  • SOC 470 Social Movements
  • SOC 480 Methods of Field Research
  • SOC 496 Adv Topics: Historical Comparative Methods
  • SOC 561 Developmental Theories

Ecological and Environmental Perspective

  • ACE 251 The World Food Economy
  • ENSU 300 Environmental Sustainability
  • ENVS 210 Environmental Economics
  • ENVS 430 Comm in Env Social Movements
  • ESE 106 Geographies of Globalization
  • ESE 140 Climate and Global Change

 

SPRING 2013

LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION
  • LAST 445 Quechua (3 sections: beginners, intermediate and advance)
  • PORT 400 Intensive Beginning Portuguese
  • PORT 401 Intermediate Portuguese
  • SPAN 103 Intermediate Spanish
  • SPAN 122 Elementary Spanish
  • SPAN 141 Introduction to Spanish Grammar
  • SPAN 142 Spanish in the Professions
  • SPAN 204 Practical Review of Spanish
  • SPAN 208 Oral Spanish
  • SPAN 228 Spanish Composition
  • SPAN 232 Spanish in the Community
  • SPAN 252 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
  • SPAN 305 The Structure of Spanish
  • SPAN 431 Spanish Morphology
Required for undergraduate majors
  • LAST 170 Introduction to Latin American Studies
  • LAST 490 Independent Study (arranged)
Required for MA Students
  • LAST 599 Thesis Research (for LAST MA students only)
ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
  • ANTH 103 Anthropology in a Changing World
  • ANTH 105 World Archeology
  • ANTH 182 Latin American Cultures
  • ANTH 209 Food, Culture and Society
  • ANTH 210 Families in Global Perspective
  • ANTH 230 Sociocultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 275 The World of Jewish Sepharad
  • ANTH 278 Climate Change and Civilization
  • ANTH 499 Primate Conservation Biology & Ecosystems Health
  • GEOG 101 Geography of Developing Countries
  • GEOG 106 Geographies of Globalization
  • GEOG 110 Geography of International Conflicts
  • GEOG 204 Cities of the World
  • UP 185 Cities in Global Perspective
  • UP 210 Environmental Economics
  • UP 260 Social Inequality and Planning
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
  • HIST 100 Global History
  • HIST 105 Latin America to Independence
  • HIST 279 Mexican-American History
  • HIST 281 Constructing Race in America
  • HIST 369 Spain and Portugal from 1808
  • HIST 396 (section H) Multinational Corporations, Globalization and History
  • HIST 405 History of Brazil from 1808
  • HIST 406 History of Mexico from 1519
  • HIST 472 Immigrant America
HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE
  • AFRO 103 Black Women in the Diaspora
  • AFRO 310 Race and Cultural Diversity
  • ARTH 115 Art in Global Context
  • CWL 114 Global Consciousness and Literature
  • CWL 242 Lit Europe and the Americas II
  • CWL 471 International Lit Relations
  • DANC 310 Capoeira

  • EPS 590  Advanced Grad Seminar: Human Rights and Justice in Education

  • LING 111 Language and Globalization
  • LIS 490 Social Media & Global Change, Online
  • LLS 396 (Section RR) Mexican Feminism in Film

  • LLS 473 Immigration, Health and Society

  • MUS 133 Introduction to World Music
  • PORT 320 Readings in Portuguese
  • PORT 334 Brazilian W’s Literature Translations
  • PORT 404 Luso-Brazilian Culture
  • SPAN 200 Readings in Hispanic Texts
  • SPAN 250 Intro to Literary Analysis
  • SPAN 254 Intro to Cultural Analysis
  • SPAN 307 Bilingualism
  • SPAN 310 Span Literature I
  • SPAN 312 Spanish Literature II
  • SPAN 314 Latin American Literature I
  • SPAN 316 Latin America Literature II
  • SPAN 318 Span Cult Studies I
  • SPAN 320 Spanish Cultural Studies II
  • SPAN 324 Cultural Studies Americas I
  • SPAN 326 Cultural Studies Americas II
  • SPAN 332 Spanish and Entrepreneurship
  • SPAN 466 Colonial Span American Studies- Geographies of Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America
  • SPAN 490 Advanced Readings in Spanish
  • SPAN 535 Seminar Latin American Literature-The Latin American Documentary from its Beginnings until Today
SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
  • ECON 420 International Economics
  • ECON 450 Developing Economies
  • ECON 452 Latin American Economies
  • ECON 550 Economics of Development and Growth
  • GLBL 100 Introduction to Global Studies
  • GLBL 250 Development
  • GLBL 392 International Diplomacy and Negotiation
  • HDFS 420 Family Diversity in the U.S.
  • PS 180 Intro Politics of Globalization
  • PS 241 Comparative Politics in Developing Nations
  • PS 280 Introduction to International Relations
  • PS 300 (section D) Immigration
  • PS 355 Democratization
  • SOC 160 Global Inequality and Social Change
  • SOC 261 Gender Transnational Perspective

  • SOC 367 Global Dynamics

  • SOC 447 Environmental Sociology
  • SOC 470 Social Movements
Ecological and Environmental Perspective
  • ACE 210 Environmental Economics
  • ACE 251 The World Food Economy
  • ACE 411 Environment and Development
  • ACE 451 Agriculture in International Development
  • ESE  140 Climate and Global Change

 

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FALL 2012 Courses

Quechua (all levels)

Language Instruction

  • PORT 200 Advanced Grammar
  • PORT 320 Readings in Portuguese
  • PORT 400 Intensive Beginning Portuguese
  • PORT 401 Intermediate Portuguese
  • SPAN 103 Intermediate Spanish
  • SPAN 122 Elementary Spanish   
  • SPAN 141 Introduction to Spanish Grammar
  • SPAN 142 Spanish in the Professions
  • SPAN 202 Spanish for Business
  • SPAN 204 Practical Review of Spanish
  • SPAN 208 Oral Spanish
  • SPAN 228 Spanish Composition
  • SPAN 232 Spanish in the Community
  • SPAN 431 Spanish Morphology
  • SPAN 432 Spanish Syntax
Required for undergraduate majors
  • LAST 170 Introduction to Latin American Studies
  • LAST 490 Independent Study (arranged)
Required for graduate
  • LAST 599 Thesis Research (for LAST MA students only)
Anthropological and Geographical Perspective
  • ANTH 103 Anthropology in a Changing World
  • ANTH 105 World Archeology
  • ANTH 106 Hist Arch Americas
  • ANTH 209 Food, Culture and Society
  • ANTH 230 Sociocultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 399 (VD1) America in the World
  • ANTH 459 The Ancient Maya
  • ANTH 499 (GR) Culture and Power
  • ANTH 515 (GR) State and Government
  • GEOG 101 Geography of Developing Countries
  • GEOG 104 Social and Cultural Geography
  • GEOG 106/ESE 106 Geographies of Globalization
  • GEOG 110 Geography of International Conflicts
  • GEOG 204 Cities of the World
  • GEOG 410 Geography of Dev. And Underdev.
  • UP 260 Social Inequality & Planning
  • UP 423 Intro to International Planning
Historical Perspective
  • HIST 100 Global History
  • HIST 105 Latin America to Independence
  • HIST 205 Latin America History: primary Accounts
  • HIST 305: Andean Countries of S America
  • HIST 380 U.S. Empire, Hispanism, and Mestizaje
Humanistic Perspective
  • AFRO 103 Black Women in the Diaspora
  • AFRO 310/LLS 310 Race and Cultural Diversity
  • AFRO 261 Intro to African Diaspora
  • CHLH 415 International Health

  • CI 512 Multicultural Education within Global perspectives

  • CWL 241 Literature Europe and the Americas 1
  • CWL 471: Intl Lit Relations: Arabs and the New World

  • CWL 571/SPAN 490:  Literature and the World System

  • DANC 310 World Dance Forms: Capoeira
  • EPS 310 Race and Cultural Diversity
  • LING 111 Language in Globalization
  • LLS 220 Mexican and Latin American Migration
  • LLS 396 Adv Topics. Puerto Ricans in the Diaspora

  • MACS 377   Global Media; Latin America

  • MUS 110  Introduction Art Music: International Perspective
  • MUS 133  Introduction to World Music
  • PORT 334 Brazilian Women’s Literature Translation
  • PORT 404 Luso-Brazilian Culture
  • PORT 406 Brazilian Film
  • SPAN 200 Readings in Hispanic Texts
  • SPAN 250 Introduction to Literary Analysis
  • SPAN 252 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
  • SPAN 254 Introduction to Cultural Analysis
  • SPAN 303 The Sounds of Spanish
  • SPAN 305 The Structure of Spanish
  • SPAN 312 Spanish Literatures II
  • SPAN 314 Latin American Lit I
  • SPAN 316 Latin American Literatures II
  • SPAN 320 Spanish Cultural Studies II
  • SPAN 324 Cultural Studies Americas I
  • SPAN 326 Cultural Studies Americas II
  • SPAN 468 20th-21stC Spanish American Studies
  • SPAN 490 Advanced Reading in Spanish
Social, Political, and Economic Perspective
  • BA 382 International Bussiness
  • BA 582 Intl Corporate Governance
  • ECON 420 International Economics
  • ECON 450 Developing Economies
  • GWS Transnational Feminisms
  • PS 240 Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • PS 241 Comparative Politics in developing Nations
  • PS 280 Introduction to International Relations
  • PS 300 Human Rights
  • PS 353 Government and Politics of Latin America
  • PS 355 Democratization
  • PS 549 (section C) Elections, Parties and Governments in Democracies
  • PS 549 (section DC) Latin American Seminar
  • SOC 160 Global Inequality and Social Change
  • SOC 221 Mexican and Latin American Immigration
  • SOC 261 Gender Transnational Perspective
  • SOC 364 Impacts of Globalization
  • SOC 447 Environmental Sociology
  • SOC 470 Social Movements

  • SOC 565 Megacities of the Global South

Ecological and Environmental Perspective
  • ACE 251 The World Food Economy
  • ENSU Environmental Sustainability
  • ENVS Comm in Env Social Movements
  • ESE 106 Geographies of Globalization
  • ESE 140 Climate and Global Change

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SPRING 2012

Most Latin American Studies courses are offered through disciplinary departments. 

Below is a preliminary list of courses offered for SPRING 2012 at the University. 

 

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CLACS ONLINE COURSES

SUMMER 2013

LAST 170- Intro to Latin America- CRN 37436

Quechua Online Courses

Summer 20131