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Required of and limited to first-year MLA students. First of three quarter foundation course. Introduction to the main political, philosophical, literary, and artistic trends that inform the liberal arts vision of the world and that underlie the MLA curriculum.

Limited to and required of second-year MLA students. Historical, literary, artistic, medical, and theological issues are covered. Focus is on skills and information needed to pursue MLA graduate work at Stanford: writing a critical, argumentative graduate paper; conducting library research; expectations of seminar participation.

Cartography is one of the main devices through which humans have attempted to capture and understand complex social, economic and political phenomena. Map-making in Latin America was one of the most important processes of discovery and appropriation during the colonial period, as the Spanish and Portuguese (as well as the Dutch, French and English if we include the Caribbean islands) used mapping for practical uses related initially to navigation, and as a means of control and extraction of resources from their empires. Indigenous map making was used by the original peoples of the Americas as a form of resistance and a device for adaptation. This course uses mapping in colonial and early independent Latin America as a lens through which students may learn about the process of colonization, state building, and the legacies on those processes on poverty and underdevelopment today.

This course asks how communities and institutions preserve their records: how are materials collected, categorized, described, preserved, displayed, and made accessible? How do we learn to interpret these documents and their place within broader cultural contexts? Whose voices and memories are included and excluded? The course will introduce students to the critical skills and methodological framework required for working in archives and manuscript repositories. Students will be taught how to read and analyse archival sources, and will be trained in the transcription, editing, evaluation, and publication of primary textual materials. Our textual materials will be generically varied and chronologically and linguistically diverse. Students will acquire the basic tools, and methods of Archival Studies, with a particular focus on representation.

Group meetings provide peer critiques, motivations, and advice under the direction of the Associate Dean.