LACS - Latin American and Caribbean Studies Courses

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LACS 1 Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean
LACS 2 Complexities of Latino Identity
LACS 3 Introduction to Latino Studies
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 20.01 Latina/o Social Movements
LACS 20.02 Migrant Los Angeles
LACS 20.03 Mexicanidad: Race/Raza, (trans)Nation, and Mexican(o/a/x) Cultural Identity
LACS 20.04 Mexican Muralism
LACS 20.05 Mexican Cinema
LACS 20.06 Making Video Essays
LACS 20.07 Latinx Stage and Screen
LACS 20.08 Latinx-ploitation
LACS 20.09 Speculative Pasts: Latinx Fantasy
LACS 20.10 Fighting With Your Mother: What generational conflict in Latinx Literature can teach us
LACS 20.12 Performing Activism in the Américas
LACS 20.13 Migrant Lives and Labor in the Upper Valley: Latinx Studies for Community Engagement
LACS 20.14 Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts
LACS 20.15 Culture and Identity in Modern Mexico
LACS 20.16 Crossing Over: Latino Roots and Transitions
LACS 20.17 Print the Revolution: Latinx Art and Activism
LACS 25.01 Race & Gender in American Film
LACS 25.02 Solo Performance
LACS 25.03 Staging Rebellion. Dissidence in Latinx American Theatre
LACS 25.04 Migrant Nation: Immigration and Racialization in the Making of the United States
LACS 25.05 Race, Gender, & Revolution in the Atlantic World
LACS 25.07 Slavery and Emancipation in Latin America and the Caribbean
LACS 25.08 The Global Caribbean
LACS 25.09 Haiti and American Empire: History of Revolutions and Authoritarianism
LACS 25.10 Caribbean History: 1898 to the present
LACS 25.11 Nationalism and Revolution in the Caribbean
LACS 25.13 Childhood, Memory, and the Caribbean
LACS 25.14 Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
LACS 25.15 Maid in America: The Politics of Domestic Labor
LACS 25.16 Latinx Performance
LACS 30.01 Politics&Culture in Transnational Central America
LACS 30.02 Art and Politics in Modern Latin America
LACS 30.03 Latin America and the U.S.: The Dynamics of Foreign Policy
LACS 30.04 Black Culture and Politics in Brazil
LACS 30.05 Land, Belonging, and Social Change in Latin America
LACS 30.07 Trading Places: How Chile Passed Argentina on the Road to Development
LACS 30.08 Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Brazilian Film
LACS 30.13 Latin America's Search for Democracy and Development
LACS 30.14 Commodities, Globalization, and Development in Latin America
LACS 30.15 Media and the Activist Amazon
LACS 30.16 Revolution, Reform and Reaction: The Cold War in Latin America
LACS 30.19 Consuming Culture?: Food & Identity Across the Afro-Americas
LACS 30.21 History of Cuba
LACS 30.22 Latin America and the Invention of Nature
LACS 30.26 Social Movements in Latin America
LACS 35.01 New Latin American Cinema
LACS 35.02 Social, Political, and Cultural Trends in Contemporary Brazil
LACS 35.03 Brazil: History, Culture, Politics and Systemic Racism
LACS 35.04 Caring for the City: Activism, Diversity and resistance in Sao Paulo, Brazil
LACS 35.05 Experiencing Brazil: Research in a Study Abroad Context
LACS 35.06 On Survivors, Memories, and Tombs: State Violence in South America through Literature and Cinema
LACS 35.07 Arts Against Empire: Fictions of Revolution and Solidarity in the Americas
LACS 35.08 The Tropical Fantastic: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Brazilian Literature and Film
LACS 35.09 Transnational Utopias: Latin American Anarchisms
LACS 35.10 Twentieth-Century Latin America
LACS 35.11 The History of Capitalism in Latin America
LACS 35.12 Sex and the State in Latin America
LACS 35.13 Protest and Parties in Latin America
LACS 35.15 Mestizaje: Music in Latin America
LACS 35.17 Media and Environment
LACS 40.01 Food History
LACS 40.02 Comparative Perspectives on the US-Mexican Borderlands
LACS 40.03 Comparative Borderlands in the Americas
LACS 40.04 Global Race x Global Migration
LACS 45.01 Literature and Culture of the Americas
LACS 45.03 Framing Ecology and Gender
LACS 45.04 Sounding Out Power and Dissent
LACS 51 Politics in Latin America
LACS 78 Art and Politics in Modern Latin America
LACS 80.01 Ethnic Los Angeles
LACS 80.02 Identity and Power in the Americas
LACS 80.03 Border Crossers
LACS 80.04 Rita Moreno: Identity, Performance, Stardom
LACS 80.21 Rita Moreno: Identity, Performance, Stardom
LACS 89 Independent Study
LACS 98 Honors Thesis I
LACS 99 Honors Thesis II