Courses Approved for Majors, Minors and M.A. Program

COURSES SPRING 2010

Most Latin American Studies courses are offered through disciplinary departments.  Below is a preliminary list of courses offered for Spring 2010. 
If you are an undergraduate major or minor in Latin American Studies, or a student in the Master program you must consult with the LAST Advisor, Angelina Cotler (cotler@illinois.edu; 333-8419) before registering for courses.

Language Instruction
LAST 445 Quechua
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 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 309 Varieties of Spoken Spanish
SPAN 332 Spanish and Entrepreneurship
SPAN 430 Spanish Phonology
SPAN 490 Advanced Readings in Spanish

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 210 Families in Global Perspective
ANTH 224 Tourist Cities and Sites
ANTH 230 Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTH 259 Latino/a Cultures
ANTH 275 The World of Jewish Sepharad
ANTH 399 (section AO) Capitalism, Culture and the World of Business
ANTH 417 (section A) Music of Mexico and Spanish Caribbean
ANTH 499 (section JT1) Indigenous Ecologies
ANTH 515 (section IA) Theory & Ethnography
GEOG 101 Geography of Developing Countries
GEOG 110 Geography of International Conflicts GEOG 210 Contemporary Social and Environmental Problems
GLBL 110 Geography of International Conflicts
UP 185 Cities in Global Perspective
UP 494 (section KS) International Environmental Issues

Historical Perspective
HIST 106 Modern Latin America
HIST 200 (section C): History of Human Rights
HIST 200 (section D) Immigrant Communities
HIST 205 History Latin America Thru Texts
HIST 279 Mexican-American History
HIST 305 Andean Countries of S. America
HIST 405 History of Brazil
HIST 406 History of Mexico from 1519
HIST 472 Immigrant America
HIST 498B Indians and Nation State Formation in Latin America
HIST 498C Disaster and Dictatorship in Latin America

Humanistic Perspective
AFRO 103 Black Women in the Diaspora
AIS 591 Problems in Indigenous Studies
ARTH 115 Art in Global Context
ARTH 413 Sacred African Diaspora Arts
ARTH 541 (PG): Transatlantic Encounters in 20th C European and Latin American Art
CWL 114 Global Consciousness and Literature
CWL 242 Literature Europe and the Americas II
CWL 441 (section D) Transnational Tales in the Americas
CWL 441 (G4 and UG3) The Novel of the Americas
CWL 562 Seminar Spanish American Literature
DANC 441 Dance History II: Introduction to World Dance
HDFS 398 Family Strengths and Challenges in Brazil
LING 111 Language and Globalization
LLS 220 Mexican & Latin American Migration
LLS 379 Latina/os in the City
MUS 133 Introduction to World Music
MUS 523 (section C) Cosmopolitanism, Globalization and Music
PORT 410 Studies in Brazilian Literature
PORT 572 Theory and Literary Criticism
SPAN 200 Readings in Hispanic Texts
SPAN 250 Intro to Literary Analysis
SPAN 254 Intro to Cultural Analysis
SPAN 312 Spanish Literatures II
SPAN 316 Latin America Literatures II
SPAN 326 Cultural Studies Americas II
SPAN 465 20th-21st C Spanish Studies
SPAN 466 Colonial Spanish America Studies
SPAN 467 19th C Sp American Studies
SPAN 535 Seminar Spanish American Literature
THEA 591/ AFST 550 Carnival and Festivals of the African Diaspora

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
GWS 100 Introduction to Gender & Women’s Studies
GWS 261 Gender Transnational Perspective
GWS 320 Gender & Latina/o Migration
GWS 380 Black Women History and Culture
GWS 480 Gender Relations and International Development
PS 180 Introduction Politics of Globalization
PS 240 Introduction to Comparative Politics
PS 241 Comparative Politics in Developing Nations
PS 280 Introduction to International Relations
PS 355 Democratization
PS 386 International Law
RST  Leisure and Consumer Culture
SOC 221 Mexican and Latin America Migration

Ecological and Environmental Perspective
ACE 251 The World Food Economy
ACE 411 Environment and Development
ACE 436 Intl Business Immersion
ACE 451 Agriculture in International Development
ACE 455 International Trade in Food and Agriculture