Latin American Studies Courses For Distribution Requirement purposes, LAS courses are classified in different categories; check individual course descriptions. |
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LAS200Y1 An introductory course that studies the development of societies in the Latin American region from its pre-Columbian past to its heterogeneous present. Cultural, geographical, historical, literary, political and social topics will be examined combining traditional historical narratives and supporting documents with art, cinema, music and other texts from popular culture and mass media. This course is open to students in at least their second year of undergraduate study. It provides both a broad foundation, and an invitation to delve deeper in further courses and in different disciplinary concentrations. LAS300H1 This issue-oriented seminar explores the construction of Latina/o
identity in Canada from an interdisciplinary perspective. We look to generate
knowledge and understanding about: 1) the manner in which Latina/o diasporas
have been constructed through historical and socio-political processes such
as exile, migration, immigration, and the ways in which they are articulated
within transnational processes of capital accumulation and the redefinitions
of ‘authentic’ national subjecthood and, 2) the ways in which Latinidad emerges both within Latina/o communities and in relation to the Canadian nation and transnational realities. LAS301H1
An advanced seminar featuring in-depth exploration of
specific themes in the study of Latin America. This year’s seminar examines
Cuba’s
relevance and legacy from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and its
rendering
in the arts and literature, through an interdisciplinary approach. LAS400H1 An in-depth exploration of specific themes in the study of Latin America. Designed especially for students in their third or fourth year of undergraduate study, pursuing an LAS Major. Special topics will vary; emphasis upon discussion of common readings and sources in a seminar format. |
A
critical assessment of a series of iconic figures from Latin
American history between 1492 and the present. Emphasis is placed on the
constantly shifting symbolic significance of these figures in popular
culture, and the ways in which they have been mythologized or commodified
both in and outside Latin America.