Let your students know that we still have seats available in the following courses. Several of the courses also meet general education requirements.
LLS 100 INTRO LATINA/LATINO STUDIES
[gen ed: Social Sciences and US Minority Culture(s)]
Interdisciplinary introduction to the basis for a Latina/Latino ethnicity in the United States. Topics include immigration and acculturation experiences and their commonalities and differences, comparison of Latina/Latino experiences to those of other racial, ethnic and immigrant groups, and the potential for a pan-ethnic identity.
3 hours
CRN# 36897 DIS AD1 2:00-2:50 R 132 Davenport Hall Coronel, E.
CRN# 36898 DIS AD2 4:00-4:50 R 132 Davenport Hall Coronel, E.
CRN# 36901 LEC AL1 1:00-1:50 MW 328 Bevier Hall Molina, I.
LLS 220 MEXICAN & LATIN AM MIGRATION
[gen ed: Social Sciences]
General overview of international migration to the United States, using Latin American migration to the U.S., especially the Midwest, as the focal point. Topics discussed include the history of international migration to the United States, the relationship between the history and contemporary context, the development of U.S. immigration policy, the incorporation of Latino immigrants in U.S. society, and immigrant and community responses to migration.
3 hours
CRN# 40326 LCD A 12:30-1:50 TR 326 David Kinley Hall Viruell-Fuentes, E.
LLS 265 POLITICS OF HIP HOP
(same as AAS 265)
Examines hip hop as politics, culture, and commodity. Emphasis given to hip hop’s relation to urban spaces deeply impacted by state surveillance, cuts in social welfare programs, immigration, and the global restructuring of capital. Also considers the viability of a “politics of hip hop” in the wake of the music’s rising value as a global commodity and analyzes hip hop as a transnational site in which gendered and sexual identities are created, contested, and rearticulated.
3 hours
CRN# 60382 LCD A 2:00-3:20 TR 326 David Kinley Hall Coyoca, W. D.
LLS 278 MAPPING LATINA/O INEQUALITIES
(same as SOC 278)
Explores contemporary structural forces that contribute to the concentration of Latinas/os in segregated neighborhoods, and the detrimental effects of housing inequality on Latina/o communities. Focuses on the influence of geographic context in creation and maintenance of racial inequalities as they affect urban, suburban, and small town locals. Further examines the role of space and place in the development and persistence of community identities.
This course will also investigate effects of educational inequalities on Latinas/os; the largest minority group in the nation’s public schools. In many school districts and institutions of higher education, Latinas/os already make up the majority of the student enrollment. We will examine the following key questions: What role have schools played in Latino communities? How have Latina/o students and their families organized, resisted, and created changes to improve the educational attainment and experiences of Latinas/os?
3 hours
CRN# 60384 LCD A 11:30-12:50 MW 126 Wohlers Hall Marrun, N.
LLS 296 CREATIVE WRITING FOR MARGINALIZED PEOPLE
(meets with AAS 299 and CW 202)
This course is a creative writing workshop designed particularly for writers of color, but also inclusive of writers from other marginalized and oppressed groups. Students will turn in either narrative fiction or creative non-fiction stories to be critiqued by their peers. The workshop will be a safe space in which writers can explore and develop their craft in an atmosphere of support and understanding, where writers can get feedback from each other, and where writers can be empowered to continue to write about the stories they feel are important and necessary. In this class we will examine the relationship between form and content, stories and politics. In addition to sharing your own creative pieces with each other, you will also read and discuss stories by published writers.
3 hours
CRN# 54576 LCD WC 11:00-12:20 TR 1126 Foreign Languages Building Coyoca, W. D.
LLS 316 LATINA/LATINO POLITICS
(same as PS 316)
Examines the role of Latino electorates in shaping state and national politics. Reviews the histories of Latino national origin groups, examines public policy issues of concern to Latinos, successes and failures of Latino empowerment strategies, and the electoral impact of Latino votes. Focus will be primarily on Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans and an assessment of the degree to which their political agendas are likely to merge over the coming years.
3 hours
CRN# 60394 LCD A 2:00-3:20 MW 313 Gregory Hall Zimmerman, A.
LLS 360 CONTEMPORARY US LATINA/O LIT
[gen ed: Literature & the Arts and US Minority Culture(s)]
This course focuses on the major U.S. Latina/Latino writers and texts and their depictions of the events that have shaped 21st-Century U.S. Latina/Latino cultures. The focus on post-2000 US Latino literary production will allow students to understand how individual writers perfected and solidified their craft as the field of U.S. Latino literature matured. All of the novels to be read in the course have been published since the year 2000. Students will focus on the latest, hot-off-the-press novels of Junot Diaz and Achy Obejas. It will also include a reading of the political and ethnic climate in Arizona with the reading of Aaron Michael Morales’ Drowning Tucson, a feminist reading of post-9/11 events in the work of Coco Fusco, and a detailed class reading of Beverly Hills maids in the work of Mary Romero.
3 hours
CRN# 36903 LCD A 9:30-10:50 TR 326 David Kinley Hall Romero, R.
LLS 379 LATINA/OS AND THE CITY
(same as HIST 379)
Examination of the migration and settlement of Latina/o populations (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, and Central and South Americans) in U.S. cities. Focus on the historic, economic, social and political factors that influenced these migrations and the choices migrants made to come to the United States and to urban areas in particular. Study of the regional variation among Latina/o groups, and coalition building and collaborative ventures between Latina/os and other communities of color in urban areas.
3 hours
CRN# 46461 LCD A 10:00-11:20 MW G36 Foreign Languages Building Velazquez, M.
LLS 390 LATINO RESILIENCE: MENTAL HEALTH AND AWARENESS
(meets first 8-weeks: January 21-March 14) (meets with LLS 590 – CRN 60991)
This course will introduce students to mental health wellness and awareness as particularly salient but often overlooked components of Latina/o student’s retention and academic and personal development. Students will gain an understanding of mental health issues facing Latino college students, resources available to them and their communities, and strategies for promoting and maintaining mental health resiliency. We will explore such innovative practices as peer networking and outreach, community-based theatre, reflective writing, and role playing. Our goal is to develop students as facilitators and connectors in social networks to promote Latino college success.
2 hours
CRN# 60990 DIS RV 9:30-11:15 W Room 133, 1207 W. Oregon Kann, V. & Rodriguez, A. P.
LLS 596 IMMIGRATION, RACE, AND IDENTITY: THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA
(meets with SOC 596)
Since the 1960’s, the United States has experienced dramatic shifts in the composition of the immigrant population, as more migrants now arrive from Latin America, Asia, and the Caribbean. This course will focus on how race and nationality shape the integration of immigrants in the US and how immigration in turn challenges and redefines what it means to be an “American” in the 21st century.
4 hours
CRN# 46466 LCD JD 1:00-3:20 W 1020 Lincoln Hall Dowling, J.
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