LLS 496

Fall 2007

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Seminar in Latina/o Studies
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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated up to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours or 12 graduate hours.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
49781
Lecture-Discussion
JC
1:00PM -3:50PM
W
Pennsylvania Lounge Bld - PAR
Chapa, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic: "Diversity Research Project: Assessing and Enhancing Campus Climate at UIUC." This is an EOTU (Ethnography of the University) course. Meets with LLS 596 sect JC, SOC 496 sect JC, and SOC 596 sect JC. This is a combined undergrad/grad research colloquium modeled after the Policy Research Projects which were a major curricular innovation of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. The initial focus of the Diversity Research Project would be multidisciplinary research and scholarship to review and evaluate various surveys and other approaches that have been or could be used to assess the UIUC campus climate as it is perceived by racialized minority students and faculty. For more information, contact the instructor at: jchapa@uiuc.edu.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
48144
Lecture-Discussion
RG
4:00PM -6:20PM
T
Everitt Laboratory
Rosas, G
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
Topic: "The US-Mexico Borderlands." Meets with ANTH 499. The seminar explores the contradictory interpretations of the US-Mexico border region: its conceptualization as a site of violence, of immigrant and Meixcan American subjugation, and of environmental degradation, often privileged in the social sciences, versus the often avowedly decolonialist orientations found in the Humanities and in Ethnic Studies, and the latter oreintations' emphases on transformation. The seminar also explores how the profound omission of the Mexican spaces of the borderlands' scholars in U.S. Latina/o-Chicana/o studies and those in hegemonic social sciences tend to privilege on the U.S. side of the border at the expense of the Mexican scholarship on the borderlands. In addition, the seminar will explore the cultural politics of policing in the US-Mexico border regioin, maquiladoras, and their relation to social movements and transnationality, or "transpolitics." Does the intenstification of migration from Mexico and other parts of the Americas to the United States, and for many across the border, which generates vast populations now living the social relation of illegality, also produce critical, new political thinking and formations?
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
49767
Lecture-Discussion
RO
11:00AM -12:15PM
MW
Foreign Languages Building
Romero, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic: "Gender, Slavery and the 19th Century U.S. Latina/Latino Novel." Meets with AFRO 498 sect RO. The course explores dominant cultural narratives surrounding the issue of U.S. slavery in the 19th century through US Latina/Latino texts. Students will explore the relationship between the writing of history and the dominant ideologies. We will explore in detail the narratives that lead to the acquisition of Texas, the U.S. Southwest, and parts of the Caribbean.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
44143
Lecture-Discussion
RR
2:00PM -3:15PM
MW
English Building
Rodriguez, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic: "The Poetics of Healing: William Carlos Williams and Rafael Campo." Meets with ENGL 300 sect F. In this course we will examine the work of two doctor-writers: William Carlos Williams and Rafael Campo. While Williams and Campo are hardly contemporaries, there are numerous cultural and political elements that link the two authors. As we identify these elements, the following questions will serve as guideposts: How does each writer grapple with critical social concerns of their respective eras? In what ways might we connect the two in terms of Latinidad? In light of this course theme, how do Wiliams and Campo write about literature, including their own?
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
48143
Lecture-Discussion
RU
4:00PM -6:20PM
T
Everitt Laboratory
Rosas, G
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic: "The US-Mexico Borderlands." Meets with ANTH 499. The seminar explores the contradictory interpretations of the US-Mexico border region: its conceptualization as a site of violence, of immigrant and Meixcan American subjugation, and of environmental degradation, often privileged in the social sciences, versus the often avowedly decolonialist orientations found in the Humanities and in Ethnic Studies, and the latter oreintations' emphases on transformation. The seminar also explores how the profound omission of the Mexican spaces of the borderlands' scholars in U.S. Latina/o-Chicana/o studies and those in hegemonic social sciences tend to privilege on the U.S. side of the border at the expense of the Mexican scholarship on the borderlands. In addition, the seminar will explore the cultural politics of policing in the US-Mexico border regioin, maquiladoras, and their relation to social movements and transnationality, or "transpolitics." Does the intenstification of migration from Mexico and other parts of the Americas to the United States, and for many across the border, which generates vast populations now living the social relation of illegality, also produce critical, new political thinking and formations?
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
47959
Lecture-Discussion
VG
4:30PM -5:45PM
TR
Davenport Hall
Viruell-Fuentes, E
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
Topic: "Immigration and Health." This interdisciplinary seminar examines the social determinants of US racial and ethnic health inequalities through the lens of (im)migration. Topics to be addressed include: conceptualizations of race and ethnicity, immigrant-adaptation theories, discrimination, and the intersections of race, ethnicity, poverty, immigration and health.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
47958
Lecture-Discussion
VU
4:30PM -5:45PM
TR
Davenport Hall
Viruell-Fuentes, E
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic: "Immigration and Health." This interdisciplinary seminar examines the social determinants of US racial and ethnic health inequalities through the lens of (im)migration. Topics to be addressed include: conceptualizations of race and ethnicity, immigrant-adaptation theories, discrimination, and the intersections of race, ethnicity, poverty, immigration and health.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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