LLS 296

Fall 2009 All Classes

All Classes

Topics Latina/o Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Course examines specific topics in Latina/Latino Studies not addressed in regularly offered courses. Examples include theories of ethnic identity, historical foundations, cultural expression, and relevant topics in public policy studies of Latina/Latino communities.

May be repeated in same or separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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LLS 296 class schedule data for fall 2009
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	54916	Lecture-Discussion	D	3:30PM -4:50PM	MW	Wohlers Hall	Galarte, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/09-12/09/09 Section Info: Topic: "Latina/Latino Bodies in Cultural Production." Meets with GWS 295. We will primarily be analyzing music, novels, film and performance to closely consider the body as a site where gendered, racialized and sexual identities are created and interrogated. The class will primarily be engaging a theoretical framework that engages Latina/Latino Studies, Gender and Women's Studies and Queer Studies.
	55144	Lecture-Discussion	E	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	Burrill Hall	Coyoca, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/09-12/09/09 Section Info: Topic: "The Politics of Hip Hop and Urban Space." Meets with AAS 299. This course examines hip hop's emergence from and relation to urban landscapes deeply impacted by state surveillance, cuts in social welfare programs, immigration, and the global restructuring of capital. Our investigation will also consider the viability of a "politics of hip hop" in the wake of hip hop's rising value as a global commodity. This class will also analyze hip hop as a transnational site in which gendered and sexual identities are created, contested, and rearticulated.