LACS - Latin American and Caribbean Studies Courses

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LACS 1 Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean
LACS 1.10 Modern Latin America
LACS 4 History, Culture and Society: The Many Faces of Latin America
LACS 7 First Year Seminars in Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies
LACS 8 Politics&Culture in Transnational Central America
LACS 9 Global Race x Global Migration
LACS 20.10 Mexicanidad: Race/Raza, (trans)Nation, and Mexican(o/a/x) Cultural Identity
LACS 20.11 Art and Politics in Modern Latin America
LACS 22.11 Fighting With Your Mother: What generational conflict in Latinx Literature can teach us
LACS 22.12 Speculative Pasts: Latinx Fantasy
LACS 23.61 Migrant Los Angeles
LACS 24 Mexican Cinema
LACS 24.30 Latinx Stage and Screen
LACS 24.50 Latinx-ploitation
LACS 24.70 Solo Performance
LACS 25.12 Staging Rebellion. Dissidence in Latinx American Theatre
LACS 30.06 New Latin American Cinema
LACS 30.08 Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Brazilian Film
LACS 30.09 Mexicanidad: Race/Raza, (trans)Nation, and Mexican(o/a/x) Cultural Identity
LACS 30.11 Social, Political, and Cultural Trends in Contemporary Brazil
LACS 30.12 Arts Against Empire: Fictions of Revolution and Solidarity in the Americas
LACS 30.13 The Tropical Fantastic: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Brazilian Literature and Film
LACS 30.15 Media and the Activist Amazon
LACS 30.17 Brazil: History, Power, and Narrative
LACS 36 Maid in America: The Politics of Domestic Labor
LACS 38 The Global Caribbean
LACS 39 Black Agrarian Democracy: Haitian History from Revolution to the Fall of the Duvalier Dictatorship
LACS 40.10 Migrant Nation: Immigration and Racialization in the Making of the United States
LACS 41.20 Literature and Culture of the Americas
LACS 44.40 On Survivors, Memories, and Tombs: State Violence in South America through Literature and Cinema
LACS 44.80 Framing Ecology and Gender
LACS 46.60 Transnational Utopias: Latin American Anarchisms
LACS 47 Twentieth-Century Latin America
LACS 48 Mexican Muralism
LACS 50.07 Latin America's Search for Democracy and Development
LACS 50.08 Commodities, Globalization, and Development in Latin America
LACS 50.09 Revolution, Reform and Reaction: The Cold War in Latin America
LACS 50.11 Latin America and the U.S.: The Dynamics of Foreign Policy
LACS 50.13 The History of Capitalism in Latin America
LACS 50.17 Land, Belonging, and Social Change in Latin America
LACS 50.18 Sounding Out Power and Dissent
LACS 51 Politics in Latin America
LACS 52 Sex and the State in Latin America
LACS 53 Protest and Parties in Latin America
LACS 54 Nationalism and Revolution in the Caribbean
LACS 58 Slavery and Emancipation in Latin America and the Caribbean
LACS 59 Caribbean History: 1898 to the present
LACS 76 Culture and Identity in Modern Mexico
LACS 78 Art and Politics in Modern Latin America
LACS 80.02 Identity and Power in the Americas
LACS 80.21 Rita Moreno: Identity, Performance, Stardom
LACS 80.60 Ethnic Los Angeles
LACS 83.50 Trading Places: How Chile Passed Argentina on the Road to Development
LACS 89 Independent Study
LACS 98 Honors Thesis I
LACS 99 Honors Thesis II