Spring 2015
Smith College Program in Latin American and Latino/a Studies
Approved Courses
LAS 261 (L) National Latin America, 1821 to the Present
Same as HST 261. A thematic survey of Latin American history in the 19th and 20th centuries
focusing on the development of export economies and the consolidation of the state in the 19th
century, the growth of political participation by the masses after 1900, and the efforts of Latin
Americans to bring social justice and democracy to the region. Basis for the LALS major. {H}
Credits: 4
Ann Zulawski
Offered Spring 2015
T Th 10:30-11:50am
LAS 201 Colloquium in Latin American and Latino/a Studies
Topic: Bodies and Borders
How are bodies (molecules, humans, families) part of the processes that
produce borders between the United States and Mexico? How do those
bodies and processes produce and maintain social, economic, and political
hierarchies? How and where do national borders exist, through bodily
interactions, even in “nonborder” spaces such as the Pioneer Valley? To
address these and other questions, this course draws on scholarship from
cultural/medical anthropology, science and technology studies (STS),
Chicano/a Studies, and epidemiology, as well as popular media such as
newspaper and magazine articles, films, and radio excerpts. Together we will explore how bodies
are used to produce and maintain geopolitical borders, particularly the border between the United
States and Mexico. The course draws heavily on scholarship about human bodies and genes in
the south Texas/northern Mexico borderlands, and focuses on media depictions of diabetes and
diabetic bodies; epidemiological scholarship and scientific research about regional health; and
readings on regional history. This course also explores other types of bodies in the U.S./Mexico
borderlands such as foster children, adoptive families, and viruses. Credits: 4
Instructor: Celina Callahan-Kapoor
Offered Spring 2015
M W 2:40-4:00pm
LAS 301 Seminar: Topics in Latin American and Latino/a Studies
Topic: Indians, Spaniards, and Africans: The Archaeology of Colonialism and Slavery in
Spanish America and the Caribbean
TBA Credits: 4
Instructor: Maxine Oland
Offered Spring 2015
Th 3:00-4:50pm
ANT 220 Collecting the Past: Art & Artifacts of the Ancient Americas
Elizabeth Klarich
Offered Spring 2015
At Amherst College
T Th 2:30-3:50pm
ANT 234 Culture, Power and Politics
Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
Offered Spring 2015
M W 2:40-4:00pm
ANT 237 Native South Americans
Elizabeth Klarich
Offered Spring 2015
T Th 9:00-10:20am
ARH 292 Collecting the Past
Dana Leibsohn
Offered Spring 2015
M 1:10-2:30pm
W 1:10-4:00pm
CLT 268 Transnational Latina Feminisms
Nancy Saporta Sternbach
Offered Spring 2015
M W F 11:00am-12:10pm
GOV 220 Introduction to Comparative Politics
Velma Garcia
Offered Spring 2015
T Th 9:00-10:20am
GOV 237 Colloquium: Politics and the U.S./Mexico Border
Velma Garcia
Offered Spring 2015
T Th 10:30-11:50am
POR 221 Portuguese and Brazilian Literature and Culture
Brazil x Five: A Journey through Its Multicultural Regions
Marguerite Itamar Harrison
Offered Spring 2015
M W 1:10-2:30pm
POR 381 Seminar in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Angola, Brazil, and Cuba: Race, Nation, and Narrative
Malcolm McNee
Offered Spring 2015
T Th 1:00-2:50pm
SPN 230 Latin American and Peninsular Literature
Doméstica: Precarious Subjects and the Politics of Intimacy in Literature and Film
Michelle Joffroy
Offered Spring 2015
T Th 9:00-10:20am
SPN 240 From Page to Stage
Argentina 2000-2015: Searching from the Stage
María Harretche
Offered Spring 2015
T Th 1:00-2:50pm
SPN 246 Latin American Literature
Zapatismo Now: Cultural Resistance on the "Other" Border
Michelle Joffroy
Offered Spring 2015
T Th 10:30-11:50am
SPN 261 Survey of Latin American Literature II
Silvia Berger
Offered Spring 2015
M W 1:10-2:30pm
SPN 371 Seminar: Latin American Literature in a Regional Context
Centroamérica: Texts, Films, Music
Nancy Saporta Sternbach
Offered Spring 2015
M W 9:00-10:20am