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 2009
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47295	Lecture-Discussion	FN	4:00PM -6:50PM	T	Location Pending	Ngo, F	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/09-05/06/09 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.
	51274	Lecture-Discussion	RC	5:00PM -7:50PM	T	Location Pending	Romero, R Castro, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/09-05/06/09 Section Info: CLASS MEETS IN THE LATINA/LATINO STUDIES BUILDING, 510 E. CHALMERS, CHAMPAIGN. Topic: "Latino Cultural Capital." Meets with SPAN 540. This course examines the ideas, values, mechanisms, structures and infrastructures through which Latino Studies is understood in the U.S. academy. We will ask ourselves, what are the political, economic, social, and cultural conditions that sustain and are sustained by this process of interpellation? How do the structures that allow for the consumption, negotiation, and exchange of "Latino Studies" affect the very definition of the field? And what are the conditions that surround that consumption? We will also explore how history, biography, canonicity, interdisciplinarity, and transnationalism affect the definition, exchange and consumption of the field. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.