ILAC 105: Climate Change and Latin American Naturecultures
In this course, we will explore fundamental concepts of the environmental humanities as they relate to the inseparable natural and cultural phenomena that constitute climate change in Latin America. The course will be structured around different ecological themes, such as energy and extractive industries, the Amazon, the desert, the Andes, the Caribbean, and urban habitats, that will be examined through twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American novels, films, short stories, and songs. Possible authors include Gloria Anzald¿a, Macarena G¿mez-Barris, Gabriel Garc¿a M¿rquez, and Jos¿ Eustasio Rivera. We will consider the ethics and politics of climate change in the Americas, how the methodologies of literary and decolonial studies can generate insights into contemporary climate change impacts in Latin America, and what role culture has in a period defined by chronic and slow-moving environmental crisis and recovery. Taught in Spanish. Students must also enroll in the related course
SPANLANG 121 "Concurrent Writing Support" for language learning.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Briceno, X. (PI)
ILAC 142: Decadent Interiorities: Modernismo in Spanish
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the concept of interior realm (reino interior) refers to a series of writings and creative practices that name ways in which the modern subject confronts this "new" sensorial and affective territory of interiority. We will study private zones of introspection and imagination through different historical media: poetry, short story, letters, visual arts, and magazines. Spanish proficiency is required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Contreras, A. (PI)
ILAC 157: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures
From roughly 1000 to 1700 CE. A survey of significant authors and works of early Iberian literatures, focusing on fictional/historical prose and poetry. Topics include lyric poetry and performance, the rise of European empire, Islam in the West, the rise of the novel, early European accounts of Africa and the Americas. Authors may include: Andalusi lyric poets, Llull, the Archpriest of Hita, Zurara, March, Rojas, Vaz de Caminha, Cabeza de Vaca, Sá de Miranda, Monte(ay)or, Teresa of Ávila, Camões, Mendes Pinto, Góngora, Sóror Violante do Céu, Sor Juana, Calderón, and Cervantes. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
ILAC 159: Don Quijote
Focus is on a close reading of Miguel de Cervantes's prose masterpiece. Topics include: the rise of the novel, problems of authorship and meaning, modes of reading, the status of Muslim and Jewish converts in early modern Spain, the rise of capitalism, masochistic desire. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisites: SPANLANG 13 or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
ILAC 193: All about Almodovar
Pedro Almod¿var is one of the most recognizable auteur directors in the world today. His films express a hybrid and eclectic visual style and the blurring of frontiers between mass and high culture. Special attention is paid to questions of sexuality and the centering of usually marginalized characters. This course studies Pedro Almod¿var's development from his directorial debut to the present, from the "shocking" value of the early films to the award-winning mastery of the later ones. Prerequisite: ability to understand spoken Spanish. Readings in English. Midterm and final paper can be in English for non-ILAC degree students. ILAC minors and majors should complete their assignments in Spanish.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Schriefer, E. (PI)
ILAC 194G: Black Brazil: Afro-Brazilian Music, Literature, and Art (AFRICAAM 294, CSRE 194)
More enslaved people from Africa were forced to Brazil than any other country and Brazil was the last country to abolish the practice of slavery in the Americas. How do these two facts impact the cultural history of Brazil? How and why was the country mythologized as a 'racial democracy' in the twentieth century? This class engages these questions to explore the origins, development, and centrality of Afro-Brazilian culture. We will immerse ourselves in the cities of Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, explore samba and Carnaval, take a dive into syncretic religious practices such as Candomblé, observe dances like capoeira, and study literary and artistic expressions from an anti-racist perspective to gain a fuller picture of Brazilian society today. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Winterbottom, T. (PI)
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Machado de Oliveira, M. (TA)
ILAC 199: Individual Work
Open only to students in the department, or by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Briceno, X. (PI)
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Hoyos, H. (PI)
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Barletta, V. (PI)
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Briceno, X. (PI)
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Hoyos, H. (PI)
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Hughes, N. (PI)
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Resina, J. (PI)
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Saldivar, R. (PI)
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Santana, C. (PI)
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Surwillo, L. (PI)
ILAC 278A: Senior Seminar: Food Studies
This transhistorical research seminar introduces students to the field of food studies while examining Iberian cultures from the Middle Ages to the present. Topics addressed include culture and authenticity, food and the performance of religious identity, maritime expansion, contemporary fishing treaties, agriculture in the medieval Muslim world, contemporary racial violence, monastic life, the Spanish Civil War, and more. Most weeks students will prepare and taste iconic culinary treats. In Spanish. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways credit. Section participation for students enrolled for 4-5 units.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Surwillo, L. (PI)
;
Martinez Rey, S. (SI)
ILAC 299: Individual Work
Open to department advanced undergraduates or graduate students by consent of professor. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Briceno, X. (PI)
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Hoyos, H. (PI)
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Barletta, V. (PI)
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Briceno, X. (PI)
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Hoyos, H. (PI)
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Hughes, N. (PI)
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Resina, J. (PI)
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Santana, C. (PI)
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Surwillo, L. (PI)
ILAC 368: Law and (non-)Humanities in Latin America
This research seminar, geared toward ILAC grad students and open to all, taught in Spanish, proposes a transversal revision of the Latin American canon from a Law and Humanities perspective, with a special interest in non-human affairs. Primary sources will be determined in consultation with participants and may include Argentine Esteban Echeverría's El matadero (1871), Ecuadorian Jorge Icaza's Huasipungo (1934), Mexican Elena Poniatowska's La noche de Tlatelolco (1971), and Colombian Juan Cárdenas's Los estratos (2013), as well as films by Solanas and Pereira dos Santos. Topics include agrarian reform, juridical personhood of nature, force of law, and representations of nature-cultural collectives. Students will become familiar with the state of the interdiscipline and will be encouraged to position their own research findings within it.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Hoyos, H. (PI)
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