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. Lectures Online and Section Face to Face. The class will expose and go beyond stereotypes about Latinx and Latin Americans typically seen on the screen (...

In this sociolinguistics seminar, we will discuss the historical and contemporary applications of speech communities, communities of practice, perceptual communities, and digital communities, and how these intersect with theories in linguistic variation, social identity, , globalization, racialization, and mediatization. Furthermore, we will consider how social justice efforts in linguistics intersect with the ever-changing community boundaries around languages, varieties, and speakers/signers.   Tuesdays, 12:30 pm - 3:20 pm, 1038 Campus Instructional Facility Instructor: Salvatore...

A course that explores how language, culture, race, public discourse and public policy intersect with the health and wellness of US Latinx communities. We will cover a variety of topics, including COVID-19 and its impact on our local immigrant community. Classes consist of discussion, active learning exercises and interviews with experts. Required textbook: Spanish in Healthcare by Glenn A. Martínez, paper back...

The Spanish Golden Age (1492-1700) has aspects that will appeal to any audience: the rise and decline of the Spanish Empire; the colonization of the New World; the union (and disunion) of the Iberian kingdoms; the persecution of Jews, Muslims, and Protestants; and the development of the first global economy. Moving between Quixotic post-modern craziness and Velázquez’s pictorial delusions, this period triggers tales of bravery and imperial greed, while also serving to reenact questions of religious and cultural hegemony as well as racial and national identity. Between nostalgic idealization...

From native Indigenous societies who inhabited the Americas, to the Europeans in search of imperial expansion, to the forced arrival of enslaved Africans to American territories, this class will study how these diverse populations constructed their own identities and sense of belonging along the lines of bodies of lands and water, consequently establishing their own border thinking.   The colonization of the Americas has been defined as rooted in “the histories of borders” (W. Mignolo, The Idea of Latin America); histories that point out to territorial imaginings and disputes that...