LLS 596

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Graduate Seminar in LLS

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Credit: 4 hours.

Examination of specific topics in Latina/Latino Studies. Topics vary.

May be repeated in the same or subsequent semesters to a maximum of 12 hours.

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LLS 596 class schedule data for spring 2008
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
47295	Lecture-Discussion	FN	3:00PM -5:50PM	W	Foreign Languages Building	Ngo, F	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Info: Topic: "Comparative Race Studies: Theories and Methods." Meets with AAS 590 and GWS 590. This graduate seminar introduces theories and methods of comparative analysis, from the intellectual histories for studies of racial formation to the latest interventions in the filed. And because the category of race is a vehicle of multiple forms of power, we will also examine the complex construction of race and racial formation as interrelated to and interdependent with constructions of gender, sexuality, labor, and nation. This seminar will pursue several conceptual themes, including power, space, time, language, and resistances, and introduce students to several subsets of the field of critical race theory, including contact theory, hybridity theories, and critical geography. The course is designed to be of use to graduate students preparing for exams, and for students who are interested in producing intersectional and interdisciplinary research. To serve these purposes, readings focus both on classic texts for studies of racial formation as well as more recent and innovative scholarship. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
48535	Lecture-Discussion	GR	4:30PM -7:20PM	W	Davenport Hall	Rosas, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Info: Topic: "Anthropology of Contemporary Mexico." Meets with ANTH 515. This seminar explores culture, power, everyday life in Mexico, and its borderlands. Drawing on a wide-ranging, regionally specific, ethnographies, social histories, and other writings, this seminar will delve into questions around this nation state's political economy, its formative state processes, and other dimensions of power, as they articulate to historically and politically constructed power relations, and both the everyday and broad-based political mobilizations such processes have generated. We will also rigorously engage how the Mexican people themeselves, women and men, indigenous and Mestizo, immigrants and non, understand these and other complexities. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
46466	Lecture-Discussion	JD	2:00PM -4:20PM	T	English Building	Dowling, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Info: Topic: "Racial Inequality in the U.S." Meets with SOC 596. This course will explore racial stratification in the United States with particular attention to patterns of inequality that persist across various social institutions affecting quality of life for racial/ethnic minorities. Topics to be discussed include: residential segregation, housing access, environmental racism, health disparities, educational inequalities, and discrimination in hiring/labor relations. While the focus will be on structural patterns of inequality, readings will also address the day-to-day practices that produce and sustain these racial disparities. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
46474	Lecture-Discussion	JI	4:30PM -6:50PM	T	Davenport Hall	Inda, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Info: Topic: "Politics of Life." Meets with ANTH 515. In the "History of Sexuality," Michel Foucault famously described biopower as designating "what brought life and its mechanisms into the realm of explicit calculations and made knowledge-power an agent of transformation of human life." Biopower thus amounts to nothing less than the taking charge of life by power. It points to how government has assigned itself the duty of administering bodies and managing collective life. Beginning with Foucault's scattered writings on the biopower, this course explores how the vital processes of human existence have come to matter when it comes to politics. Topics include sovereignty, welfare, humanitarianism, necropolitics, biovalue, genetic responsibility, biological citizenship, race and genomics, and pharmaceutical governance. Readings will include works by, among others, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Nikolas Rose, Joao Biehl, Monica Konrad, Aihwa Ong, Andrew Lakoff, Anna Marie Smith, Catherine Waldby, Didier Fassin, and Peter Redfield. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.