TAUGHT IN ENGLISH, Gen Ed for “Literature and the Arts” and “US Minority Cultures;" This course studies the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through exciting films. It focuses on a set of current and relevant topics (migrations, assimilation and integration, ICE, political struggles, globalization, nationalism and transnationalism). No prerequisites. Lecture (AL1) is Online and Sections Face to Face (in person).

This course addresses the conflictive relationship between the United States and Latin America through literature and visual culture. In 1891, Cuban writer José Martí published his essay Nuestra América, referring to Latin America as opposed to the United States and Canada. Martí clearly states that toward the end of the 19th century, the independence of Latin America was not threatened by Europe but by the predominantly North American power, namely the United States of America. Martí calls all Latin American nations to remain united and to fight against the rising...

Span 326 Mapping the Borderlands focuses on how border communities imagine, experience, and coexist in el Norte, the American Southwest, and Greater Mexico. For the queer Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa, the U.S.-Mexico border is an open wound: "una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds" (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 25). The result is a third space, a “third country” where both worlds merge into a unique “border culture” that challenges political, artistic, racial, gender, and sexual paradigms. Focusing on...

An introduction to Hispanic/Latinx sociolinguistics, studying language variation and change, attitudes/ideologies, indexicality, language, race, and power, and more. The course will begin with discussions of why we study sociolinguistics and how we can use our research towards efforts in diversity, equity, and inclusion. From there the course will take a step back and introduce students to the field’s history, starting with variationist practices moving into questions of performance and indexicality. We will then practice quantitative analyses of linguistic data using R. Afterwards, we will...

Relationship between language, individual, and society in the context of the Spanish around the world, concentrating on Spanish varieties spoken in Spain and Latin America, including the United States, but will also give an overview of Spanish in Africa and other parts of the world. This is a Spanish dialectology course, where we will study how the Spanish language varies throughout the world. By using music, texts, corpora, and social media, we will analyze phonetic, morphosyntactic, and discourse/pragmatic variation. Students in this course will be trained in sociolinguistic data collection...

This course explores how cinema in Mexico, from its arrival at end of the 19th century through 21st century production, has commented on and participated in constructing national identity. We will analyze canonical, landmark films as well as lesser-known works to explore how cinema engages the country’s national imaginary while negotiating notions of class, gender, race and modernity informed by transnational and global connections. As film is an “industrial” art form, we will examine the significance of social, historical and political conditions in addition to global economic structures in...