Please let your students know that we have seats available in the following classes and a couple of the classes fulfill general education requirements:

LLS 250 LATINA/OS ON THE BRONZE SCREEN
(Literature & the Arts and US Minority Cultures gen ed)
Critical, historical and theoretical exploration of Latino representations in U.S. film from the 1900s to the present. Examination of cinematic representations as well as the social, political, and cultural context in which those representations are produced. The focus is on Mexican American and Puerto Rican images, but Hollywood’s treatment of other Latino communities and ethnic groups will be discussed. Students will be required to attend weekly movie screenings.

LLS 360 CONTEMPORARY US LATINA/O LIT
(Literature & the Arts and US Minority Cultures gen ed)
Focuses on the major U.S. Latina/Latino writers and texts and their depictions of the events that have shaped 20th-and 21st-Century U.S. Latina/Latino cultures.
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.

LLS 379 LATINA/OS AND THE CITY
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.

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Alicia P. Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Academic Advisor and Administrative Coordinator

Department of Latina/Latino Studies, MC-136
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign