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- Spanish in the Community is a course at the University that integrates the Spanish speaking skills of students and connects them with service projects in the Champaign-Urbana community.
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SPAN 468This course will examine the evolution of discourses on nature in Latin American literature and film throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will dig into texts that thematize the environment, and examine how they refer to the conservation and destruction of nature.
SPAN 326In this course, we will study representations of animals in Latin American culture and examine why writers and artists thought with animals to work through human questions of gender, race, and sexuality.
SPAN 332Learn the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship, a practice that seeks opportunities at the nexus of languages, cultures and communities. We will focus on the question of how to create linguistically- and culturally-appropriate programming within nonprofits.
SPAN 324This course examines the relationship between food, culture and society in colonial Spanish America and its impact on our society today.
SPAN 326In this course, we will study the aesthetic representations of sex and sexuality in Latin American literary and artistic work from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
SPAN 590When we become immersed in the stories of others, our own lives change, for better or worse, for a few seconds or for years. How do storytellers use the potential for empathy to affect readers or viewers? What are the ethical implications of these uses?
SPAN 535This course seeks to explore visions of the metropole in Caribbean and U.S.
BASQUE 401Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people spoken in the north of Spain and south of France.
SPAN 465The indignados movement marked a before and an after in the contemporary history of Spain.
SPAN 324What do tangible objects such as textiles, silverwork, maps, books, jewelry, paintings, clothing, furniture, kitchen utensils, and food tell us about the history and culture of Latin America?
PORT 403This course aims to break open the singular idea of “Brazil” to reveal many Brazils, exposing students to the tremendous regional diversity that both enriches and complicates our understanding of the Federative Republic.
PORT 404This course will familiarize students with the broad trends and debates in Brazilian social and historical thought during the long 20th century. Course taught in English
SPAN 326In this course, we will study representations of animals in Latin American culture and examine why writers and artists thought with animals to work through human questions of gender, race, and sexuality.
SPAN 326 GAs one of the most divisive issues of our time, immigration has quickly become a major topic of focus in literature, film, and journalism. This course will examine Latin American immigration and emigration as social, political, and cultural phenomena.
SPAN 332Learn about social entrepreneurship and non-profit programming that is linguistically and culturally appropriate—and gain pre-professional workplace experience.
This is a service learning course.
SPAN 232In class and off campus, learn from our local Latino community while working in a multilingual, professional setting.
This is a service learning course
SPAN 324This course will offer a historical perspective of the way ecology, natural disasters, and human actions are intrinsically intertwined.
SPAN 312This course examines how both emigration and immigration have been portrayed in Spanish literature and in other cultural manifestations since 1900 to the present.
SPAN 326 FThis course will critically consider the construction of a new Latin American international cinema from a Cultural Studies approach, investigating how it fulfills or disrupts desires for a borderless world, how it represents local and global conflict, whether it successfully “translates” the cult
SPAN 590The course will explore the politics, emotions and aesthetics of change in the context of modern and contemporary Spanish culture.
SPAN 468Buenos Aires. Mexico City. Bogotá. Rio de Janeiro. The Virtual City. How does one “read” the contemporary urban metropolis of Latin America, whether real or imagined?
