List of Supporting Courses





Culture, History, and Society
 

LCS 506 Caribbean Leaders and Societies

LCS 507 Three Island Revolutions

LCS 508 Seminar: U.S. Latinos

LCS 509/SOC 576/ International Migration: History, Theory, Methodology

LCS 510 Workers and Globalization

LCS 511 Introduction to Cultural Studies

LCS 515 U.S. Latino Culture and Literature

LCS 551 Gender and Class in Latin American Development

LCS 556/POS 556 Authoritarian and Comparative/Representative Regimes in Latin

America

LCS 560 Urban Poverty in Latin America

LCS 572/GOG 572 Issues in Latin American Geography

LCS 573/GOG 573 Comparative Metropolitan Planning

LCS 575 Caribbean Migration

LCS 585/ECO 585 Land and Labor in Latin America

LCS 593/POS 593 International Relations of Latin America

LCS 599 Special Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (as advised)

LCS 695 Independent Study and Research (1-6 cr.) (as advised)

ANT 533 Mesoamerican Archaeology

ANT 633 Seminar in Mesoamerican Archaeology

ANT 641 Seminar in Mesoamerican Ethnology

ANT 643 Seminar in the Native Mesoamerican Texts and Literature

ANT 648 Seminar in South American Ethnology

ANT 666* Seminar in Ethnohistory

ANT 667/PLN 672 Housing Problems and Policies in Third World Cities

HIS 569 History of Mexico

HIS 570 History of the West Indies and Central America

HIS 572 History of Brazil

HIS 665 Readings in Latin American History

HIS 667 Seminar in Latin American History

SOC640Gender Inequality


Language, Literature, and Fine Arts
 

LCS 514/SPN519 Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean

LCS 515 U.S. Latino Culture and Literature

LCS 517/SPN 513 Cultural Foundations of Latin American Literature

SPN 500 a/b Intensive Introduction in Spanish

SPN 502 The Linguistic Structure of Modern Spanish

SPN 505 History of the Spanish Language

SPN 507 Spanish Scholarly Writing

SPN 508 Advanced Spanish Communication

SPN 509 Spanish for Teachers

SPN 510 Topics in Spanish Language

SPN 512 Cultural Foundations of Latin American Literature: Colonial Age

SPN 514 Cultural Foundations of Spanish Literature: To the Catholic Kings

SPN 515 Cultural Foundations of Spanish Literature: Golden Age

SPN 516 Cultural Foundations of Spanish Literature: Since 1700

SPN 517 Spanish American Theatre

SPN 518 Spanish American Short Story

SPN 521 Spanish Literature for High School Teachers

SPN 522 The Twentieth Century Spanish American Essay

SPN 523 Spanish American Colonial Prose

SPN 525 Spanish American Colonial Poetry

SPN 526 Spanish American Poetry of the Modernist Period

SPN 527 Spanish American Poetry Since Modernism

SPN 528 Spanish American Romanticism

SPN 529 Spanish American Narrative Prose of 19th Century

SPN 586 Spanish American Novel from 1910 to 1950

SPN 587 Contemporary Spanish American Novel

SPN 605 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism

SPN 606 Applied Critical Theory

SPN 680 Introduction to Literary Research

SPN 681 Seminar: Novel

SPN 684 Seminar: Literary Themes

SPN 685 Topics in Hispanic Linguistics

SPN 694 Directed Readings in Spanish

SPN 695 Topics in Hispanic Literature

SPN 721 Studies in Hispanic Literature

SPN 793 College Teaching of the Spanish Language

POR 502 Linguistic Structure of Modern Portuguese

POR 505 History of the Portuguese Language

POR 512 Survey of Brazilian Literature

ANT 528 Mesoamerican Linguistics

ANT 533 Mesoamerican Writing Systems

ANT 571 Mesoamerican Language Instruction


Advanced Methods Courses

Students enrolled in the LACS track of the Spanish Ph.D. program should take LCS (SPN) 511 introduction to Cultural Studies or an advanced methods course in a field related to the dissertation topic. Choosing this course should be made in consultation and with the approval of the student's LACS graduate advisor. The following are some of the methods courses accepted by the Department to satisfy this requirement:
ANT 508 Proseminar in Ethnology

ANT 600 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology

ANT 608 Field methods in Ethnology

HIS 590 Quantitative Methods in History

HIS 591 Research and Writing in History

HIS 594 Readings and Practicum in Oral and Video History

SOC 509 Research Methods

SOC 535 Qualitative Research Techniques

SPN 605 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism

SPN 606 Applied Critical Theory

SPN 685 Methods in Research

ENG 542 Literary Theory since 1950

ENG 642 Trends in Critical Theory

WWS 565 Feminist Theory


* In order to receive credit for this course toward the Ph.D. degree, students must work on Latin American, Caribbean, or U.S. Latino related topics.

Explanation of course prefixes:

AAS Africana Studies

PLN Planning

AOS Administration & Policy Studies

POR Portuguese

POS Political Science

ANT Anthropology

SOC Sociology

ECO Economics

SPN Spanish

GOG Geography

ESOC Educational Sociology

HIS History

TBI Languages and Cultures Education

LCS Latin American and Caribbean Studies

WSS Women’s Studies

LACS COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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