Satisfies General Education Criteria:
*AC = Advance Composition
*HP = Historical & Philosophical Perspective
*LA = Literature and the Arts
*US = US Minority Culture(s) Satisfies Latina/Latino Studies Minor Criteria:
*H = Humanities
*SS = Social Science LLS 100 INTRODUCTION TO LATINA/LATINO STUDIES - *US
Instructor: L. Cacho
Interdisciplinary introduction to the basis for a Latina/Latino ethnicity in the United States. Topics include immigration and acculturation experiences and their commonalities and differences, comparison of Latina/Latino experiences to those of other racial, ethnic and immigrant groups, and the potential for a pan-ethnic identity.
3 hours
CRN# 32234 DIS AD1 10:00-10:50 R 209 David Kinley Hall
CRN# 32235 DIS AD2 10:00-10:50 R 36 English Building
CRN# 32236 DIS AD3 11:00-11:50 R 111 David Kinley Hall
CRN# 39710 DIS AD4 11:00-11:50 R 132 Lincoln Hall
CRN# 47212 DIS AD5 11:00-11:50 R 186 Lincoln Hall
CRN# 32237 LEC AL1 1:00-1:50 MW 151 Loomis Lab.
LLS 199 UNDERGRADUATE OPEN SEMINAR
May be repeated. 1 to 5 hours. Topic: Race, Gender, and Sexuality - *H
(meets with AAS 199, GWS 199, and AIS 199)
Instructor: F. Ngo
This course is designed to introduce students to some of the issues that emerge at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, dis/ability, and nation. The course will be taught through comparative perspectives in terms of both race and nation; so, students will be introduced to issues of gender and sexuality across many racialized and nationalized groups including African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and indigenous peoples. The goal of the course is to introduce students to the intersectional and comparative frameworks and methodologies, debates in these fields, and to the critical language that surrounds those debates. The course will draw from a wide range of sources including music, plays, film, anthropological texts, fiction, and poetry. The course provides both an historical and contemporary context for thinking through topics including representation, war, globalization, labor, imperialism, nation building, and racialization. In composing this course, I am less interested in imparting the ‘right’ point of view than in encouraging students to think critically about issues of race, gender, sexuality, and nation, drawing your own thoughtful conclusions. In this spirit, the course is designed to give students the chance to interact not only with the lecturer, but with each other as well. A great deal of classroom time will be given over to discussion so that students can articulate their ideas, rather than passively listening to lectures all the time. Each student brings a range of experiences that add to their understanding of the material presented in class. Ideally, the classroom serves as a forum to exchange and debate ideas from a wide range of perspectives. When more people participate fully, the section is both more engaging and enjoyable. Please come prepared to articulate your ideas, and bring the day’s required reading to class with you. This course counts towards elective credits for the Asian American Studies Minor, the Gender and Women’s Studies major and minor, and the Latina/Latino Studies minor.
3 hours
CRN# 50076 LCD FN 10:00-11:20 MW 36 English Building LLS 201 US RACIAL AND ETHNIC POLITICS - *US *SS
(same as AFRO 201 & PS 201)
Examines efforts by racial and ethnic communities to organize politically and by society to allocate resources based on race or ethnicity. Topical focus includes African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, white ethnics. The primary goal of the course is to develop a more comprehensive understanding of racial and ethnic politics by identifying commonalities and differences among these groups and their relationship to the state.
3 hours
CRN# 40379 DIS AD1 9:00-9:50 F 300 Lincoln Hall
CRN# 40380 DIS AD2 10:00-10:50 F 300 Lincoln Hall
CRN# 40381 DIS AD3 11:00-11:50 F 300 Lincoln Hall
CRN# 40382 DIS AD4 9:00-9:50 F 314 Lincoln Hall
CRN# 40383 DIS AD5 10:00-10:50 F 314 Lincoln Hall
CRN# 40384 DIS AD6 11:00-11:50 F 300 Lincoln Hall
CRN# 40378 LEC AL1 9:00-9:50 TR 116 Roger Adams Lab. LLS 220 LATIN AM& LATINO MIGRATION - *SS
(same as SOC 221)
Instructor: E. Viruell-Fuentes
General overview of international migration to the United States, using Latin American migration to the U.S., especially the Midwest, as the focal point. Topics discussed include the history of international migration to the United States, the relationship between the history and contemporary context, the development of U.S. immigration policy, the incorporation of Latino immigrants in U.S. society, and immigrant and community responses to migration. Prerequisite: LLS 100 or SOC 100.
3 hours
CRN# 48137 LCD A 2:00-3:15 TR 113 Gregory Hall LLS 250 LATINA/OS ON THE BRONZE SCREEN - *SS
(same as COMM 250)
Instructor: R. Rodriguez
Critical and theoretical exploration of Latino representations in U.S. film from the 1900’s to the present. Examination of cinematic representations as well as the social, political, and cultural context in which those representations are produced. The focus is on Mexican American and Puerto Rican images, but Hollywood’s treatment of other Latinos communities and ethnic groups will be discussed. Students will be required to attend weekly movie screenings.
3 hours
CRN# 49641 LCD A 2:00-4:50 T 108 English Building LLS 259 LATINA/O CULTURES - *SS
(same as ANTH 259)
Instructor: A. Lugo
Introduction to the Spanish-speaking population of the United States, including demography, history, economics, and aspects of the sociocultural milieu; emphasis on Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans, although other Spanish-speaking groups are also considered. Prerequisite: ANTH 103, or consent of instructor.
3 hours
CRN# 47221 DIS AD1 8:30-9:20 W 113 Davenport Hall
CRN# 47222 DIS AD2 12:00-12:50 W 113 Davenport Hall
CRN# 40253 LCD AE 11:00-11:50 TR 160 English Building LLS 296 TOPICS LATINA/O STUDIES
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. Topic: Mapping Latino/a Inequalities - *SS
Instructor: J. Dowling
Explores contemporary structural forces that contribute to the concentration of Latino/as in segregated neighborhoods, and the detrimental effects of housing inequality on Latino/a communities. The focus will be on mapping the contours of institutional discrimination as they affect urban, semi-urban, and rural landscapes. Topics to be discussed include: housing access, environmental racism, educational disparities, crime, police brutality, community activism, and cultural production. We will further examine the role of space and place in the development and persistence of community identities.
3 hours
CRN# 49777 LCD A 2:00-3:20 MW 311 Gregory Hall Topic: Citizenship Comparatively - *SS
(Meets with AAS 299 and GWS 390)
Instructor L. Cacho
This class will examine how citizenship has always been conferred and/or denied according to race and gender, focusing on Latinas/os and Asians. We will begin by looking at the ways in which legislation and court cases used race and gender to confer citizenship to Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, but denied citizenship to Asians. Through examining marriage, we will see how women, regardless of race, could be stripped of citizenship if they married "aliens ineligible to citizenship;" we will also analyze how marriage determined whether children born overseas were conferred US citizenship. The second half of the class will explore two interrelated themes: 1) how has the United States used the "noncitizen" category to further exclude people along racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual lines? and 2) how are Asians, Latinas/os, and other immigrants of color challenging and changing the meanings and definitions of US citizenship?
3 hours
CRN# 45709 LCD B 3:30-4:50 MW 112 Speech & Hearing Topic: Body, Culture, and Power - *H
Instructor: J. Inda
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 will 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 course will focus primarily on the body in western culture (with some emphasis on the Latino body) and will emphasize the optics of science, technology, and visual culture in the making and remaking of bodies. Specifically, it will interrogate how difference has been tracked, represented, and rendered visible through the body—how difference has been marked, contained, and dispersed—and how modern knowledge regimes have not merely observed and reported on bodies but have produced them. In effect, this course will explore the construction, imaging, and experience of the body in light of modern regimes of power/knowledge.
3 hours
CRN# 50462 LCD C 2:30-4:50 M 385 Education
LLS 310 RACE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY - *AC *US
(same as AAS 310, AFRO 310, and EPS 310)
Instructor: J. Anderson
Study of race and cultural diversity from Colonial era to present; the evolution of racial ideology in an ethnically heterogeneous society; the impact of race on the structures and operations of fundamental social institutions; the role of race in contemporary politics and popular culture. Prerequisite: Completion of campus Composition I general education requirement.
4 hours
CRN# 33766 DIS A 2:00-3:50 R 323 Education Building
LEC A 2:00-3:50 T 166 Education Building
CRN# 33772 DIS B 2:00-3:50 R 389 Education Building
LEC B 2:00-3:50 T 166 Education Building LLS 390 INDEPENDENT STUDY
Special topics not treated in regularly scheduled courses; designed especially for advanced Undergraduates. May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms as topics vary to a maximum of 6 hours.
Prerequisite: One course in Latina/Latino Studies and consent of instructor.
0 to 3 hours
IND ARRANGED LLS 392 CHICANAS&LATINAS: SELF & SOCIETY - *AC *SS
(meets with GWS 392 and SOC 392)
Instructor: J. Dowling
Explores the experiences of Chicanas and Latinas through the lens of contemporary sociological research. Topics to be discussed include: community formation and activism, Chicana/Latina feminisms, sexuality, religion, health, family, immigration, education, work, media, and artistic expression. Readings emphasize the links between the structural inequalities of society, and the day-to-day lived experiences of Chicanas/Latinas. Prerequisite: any 100, 200, or 300-level LLS, GWS, or SOC course.
3 hours
CRN# 50108 LCD A 11:00-12:20 MW 37 Education Building
LLS 433 FOUND OF BILINGUAL EDUC - *SS
(same as CI 433)
Instructor: C. DeNicolo
Analyzes historical, political, and educational influences on bilingual/multicultural education, the potential of various program models to promote academic achievement, and the theoretical and practical reasons for bilingual instruction. Attention is given to the research base underlying bilingual education programs.
2 graduate hours
CRN# 35732 LCD G2 4:00-6:50 W 385 Education Building
4 graduate hours
CRN# 35733 LCD G4 4:00-6:50 W 385 Education Building
3 undergraduate hours
CRN# 35731 LCD U3 4:00-6:50 W 385 Education Building LLS 496 SEMINAR IN LATINA/O STUDIES
3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated up to 6 undergraduate hours or 12 graduate hours. Topic: Diversity Research Project: Assessing and Enhancing Campus Climate at UIUC - *SS
(meets with LLS 596, SOC 496, and SOC 596)
Instructor: J. Chapa
This is an EOTU (Ethnography of the University) course.
This is a combined undergrad/grad research colloquium modeled after the Policy Research Projects which were a major curricular innovation of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas Austin. The initial focus of the Diversity Research Project would be multidisciplinary research and scholarship to review and evaluate various surveys and other approaches that have been or could be used to assess the UIUC campus climate as it is perceived by racialized minority students and faculty. At least 30% of the course credit will be tied to activities directly related to EOTU including ethnographic research on the campus climate as it experienced by students who are members of under-represented minorities. In addition to ethnographies focusing on campus climate issues, the class may also conduct research on the “cyberbullying” and “cyberhatred” i.e., internet postings that demean, insult, or threaten groups or individuals at UIUC; the self-segregation of UIUC students in social situations; “Two-Faced Racism,” as documented by Picca in her forthcoming book; and other related issues. Students in will be expected to create web-based ethnographic “inquiry pages” with links to fieldnotes, interviews, maps, and other critical documents and to present their work at an EIU conference. The Diversity Research Project would also review the literature on actions and programs that comparable campuses have used to improve their campus climate. One aspect of the class will include public lectures by invited experts and open forums for faculty and students. The goal of the Diversity Research Project will be to produce a multi-authored report detailing these findings as they may be applied to UIUC. The report and possibly some project-related occasional papers will be published by CDMS. Project findings and publications will be an important part of the major diversity conference planned at UIUC for spring 2008. For more information, contact the instructor at: jchapa@uiuc.edu.
3 undergraduate hours
CRN# 49781 LCD JC 1:00-3:50 W Room 111A, Penn. Ave. Res. Topic: The US-Mexico Borderlands - *SS
(meets with ANTH 499)
Instructor: G. Rosas
The intensification and reconfiguration of global capitalism, the collapsing of time and space, and---of central importance to this course---the vast movements of populations across international boundaries, have reoriented academic and political discourses towards geographic conceptualizations of culture and politics. These conceptualizations are reflected in such terminology as enclosures, borders, territorializations, and deterritorializations. This course explores whether such phenomena inaugurate critical, new political thinking and new political subjects. In addition, the course explores the implications of such new formations as exemplars of knowledge productions, epistemologically, and in terms of the intersections between academic and activist knowledges. This course will combine class discussion and collective reading and research. Its primary focus will be the relationships between globalization(s) and critical knowledge productions in the US and Mexico. Special emphasis will be placed on the intersections of knowledge production, migrations, social movements, as well as borders and policing.
3 undergraduate hours
CRN# 48143 LCD RU 4:00-6:20 T 245 Everitt Lab.
4 graduate hours
CRN# 48144 LCD RG 4:00-6:20 T 245 Everitt Lab. Topic: Slavery and the 19th Century U.S. Latino Novel - *H
(meets with AFRO 498)
Instructor: R. Romero
The course explores dominant cultural narratives surrounding the issue of U.S. slavery in the 19th century through US Latina/Latino texts. Students will explore the relationship between the writing of history and the dominant ideologies. We will explore in detail the narratives that lead to the acquisition of Texas, the U.S. Southwest, and parts of the Caribbean. Students will read Latina/Latino texts on slavery such as Loreta Janeta Velázquez's The Woman in Battle, and Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdés (long considered a Cuban novel that contemporary US Latino criticism is re-classifying as a foundational US Latino text). Students will also read the less well-known Amparo Ruiz de Burton text Who Would Have Thought it? along with a Mexican eye-witness account of the siege of the Alamo.
3 undergraduate hours
CRN# 49767 LCD RO 11:00-12:15 MW G30 Foreign Lang. Bldg. Topic: The Poetics of Healing: William Carlos Williams and Rafael Campos - *H *AC
(meets with ENG 300)
Instructor: R. Rodriguez
This is an advanced composition course.
In this course we will examine the work of two doctor-writers: William Carlos Williams and Rafael Campo. While Williams and Campos are hardly contemporaries, there are numerous cultural and political elements that link the two authors. As we identify these elements the following questions will serve as guideposts: How does medical practice inform the production of poetry and memoir? How does each writer grapple with critical social concerns of their respective eras? In what ways might we connect the two in terms of latinidad? In light of the course theme, how do Williams and Campo write about literature, including their own? Writing requirements will include frequent short papers, in-class writing exercises, and a final 12-15 page essay which students will develop and fine-tune throughout the semester. equired Texts: William Carlos Williams: Autobiography of William Carlos Williams; I Wanted to Write a Poem; The Doctor Stories; Selected Poems. Rafael Campo: What the Body Told; The Enemy; The Desire to Heal: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry; Diva; and a course packet with additional poems and essays, as well as critical work on Williams and Campo.
3 undergraduate hours
CRN# 44143 LCD RR 2:00-3:15 MW 150 English Building Topic: Immigration and Health - *SS
Instructor: E. Viruell-Fuentes
This interdisciplinary seminar examines the social determinants of US racial and ethnic health inequalities through the lens of (im)migration. Topics to be addressed include: conceptualizations of race and ethnicity, immigrant-adaptation theories, discrimination, and the intersections of race, ethnicity, poverty, immigration and health.
3 undergraduate hours
CRN# 47958 LCD VU 4:30-5:45 TR 336 Davenport Hall
4 graduate hours
CRN# 47959 LCD VG 4:30-5:45 TR 336 Davenport Hall LLS 590 INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent study on special topics not treated in regularly scheduled courses. Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Consent of instructor required.
1 to 4 hours
IND ARRANGED LLS 596 GRADUATE SEMINAR IN LLS
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 Topic: Consuming Racialized Beauty
(meets with COMM 590)
Instructor: I. Molina
The seminar engages the critical studies literature on race, gender and the media to think through the politics of beauty. Special theoretical emphasis will be given to how scholars across various disciplines (art history, cinema studies, cultural studies, literary studies, media studies) think through the ways beauty and the gendered and raced body are defined, disciplined and consumed by audiences. Throughout the semester the politics of beauty and representation will be analyzed by engaging in a comparative analysis of specific ethnic groups, among them African American, Asian American, Latinas/os and South Asians. Weekly class discussions will focus around specific case studies and media examples. For more information, please contact the instructor: imolina@uiuc.edu.
4 graduate hours
CRN# 49787 LCD IM 5:00-6:50 W 336 Gregory Hall Topic: Diversity Research Project: Assessing and Enhancing Campus Climate at UIUC
(meets with LLS 496, SOC 496, and SOC 596)
Instructor: J. Chapa
This is an EOTU (Ethnography of the University) course.
This is a combined undergrad/grad research colloquium modeled after the Policy Research Projects which were a major curricular innovation of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas Austin. The initial focus of the Diversity Research Project would be multidisciplinary research and scholarship to review and evaluate various surveys and other approaches that have been or could be used to assess the UIUC campus climate as it is perceived by racialized minority students and faculty. At least 30% of the course credit will be tied to activities directly related to EOTU including ethnographic research on the campus climate as it experienced by students who are members of under-represented minorities. In addition to ethnographies focusing on campus climate issues, the class may also conduct research on the “cyberbullying” and “cyberhatred” i.e., internet postings that demean, insult, or threaten groups or individuals at UIUC; the self-segregation of UIUC students in social situations; “Two-Faced Racism,” as documented by Picca in her forthcoming book; and other related issues. Students in will be expected to create web-based ethnographic “inquiry pages” with links to fieldnotes, interviews, maps, and other critical documents and to present their work at an EIU conference. The Diversity Research Project would also review the literature on actions and programs that comparable campuses have used to improve their campus climate. One aspect of the class will include public lectures by invited experts and open forums for faculty and students. The goal of the Diversity Research Project will be to produce a multi-authored report detailing these findings as they may be applied to UIUC. The report and possibly some project-related occasional papers will be published by CDMS. Project findings and publications will be an important part of the major diversity conference planned at UIUC for spring 2008. For more information, contact the instructor at: jchapa@uiuc.edu.
3 undergraduate hours
CRN# 49782 LCD JC 1:00-3:50 W Room 111A, Penn. Ave. Res. |
