LLS 396

Spring 2009 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6

Adv Topics Latina/o Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

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 the same or separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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LLS 396 class schedule data for spring 2009
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
51046	Lecture-Discussion	JI	2:30PM -4:50PM	M	Foreign Languages Building	Inda, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/09-05/06/09 Section Info: Topic: "Body, Culture, and Power." Meets with AAS 390 and GWS 395. This seminar offers a critical examination of the dynamics related to the embodiment of difference. Although the body is usually equated with nature, our focus will be on how truths about the body are produced in ways that justify and contest formations of power. In other words, we argue that the body, rather than being in any simple way natural, is a construct of culture and therefore always implicated in relations of dominance and subordination. The particular focus of the course is the role of difference in the making and remaking of bodies. Specifically, it is concerned with how raced, gendered, and sexed bodies have been constructed in US culture (often as deviant) and with how such bodies have been rendered objects of surveillance, discipline, and regulation.
51129	Lecture-Discussion	KD	2:30PM -3:50PM	TR	Davenport Hall	Dorr, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/09-05/06/09 Section Info: Topic: "Gender, Race, and Nation." This seminar offers a comparative, interdisciplinary survey of theory, film and fiction concerned with nation-building and state formation processes in the 19th and 20th century Americas. Course readings and class discussion will be guided by specific attention to how socially constructed categories of difference--particularly, gender, race, and sexuality--shape how claims of national belonging are materially and ideologically structured. Employing a feminist, anti-racist theoretical framework, we will grapple with the following questions: How might we theorize the relationship between structures of white supremacy and patriarchy and the (re)production of the imperial and/or postcolonial nation? How are the boundaries of the modern nation-state shaped, transformed, and contested by competing raced and gendered claims of nationalist, transnationalist, and diasporic claims of belonging? If, as many pundits argue, we are currently experiencing a "decline of the nation-state," then what ghosts of nationalism continue to haunt the raced and gendered structures, states, and citizens of capitalist globalization?
51126	Lecture-Discussion	LR	9:00AM -10:20AM	MW	Engineering Hall	Rodriguez, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/09-05/06/09 Section Info: Topic: "Reading Chicana/o Popular Culture." This course will examine how various forms of Chicana/o popular culture, including poetry, film, music and visual arts, act as discourse spaces of identity expression and theory production. We will employ literary and cultural theoretical analysis to explore how these spaces articulate the complex intersections of ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality found within Chicana/o identities.
51103	Lecture-Discussion	RR	12:00PM -1:20PM	TR	Transportation Building	Romero, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/09-05/06/09 Section Info: Topic: "Mexican Culture and Film." The course aims to familiarize the students with: a) the major events that shaped Mexican history in the 20th century: the Mexican Revolution, the Student Movement of 1968, and the fall of the major political party, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) after 72 years in power; b) students will analyze how these political events have manifested themselves in film, from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (1936-1956) to the recent film boom. Students will also analyze how recent Mexican transnational films (Gonzales Inarritu, Del Toro, Cuaron) intersect with US Latino concerns on issues of immigration and citizenship.