For incoming STPEC majors. Introduces STPEC's requirements and vision, organized around concepts students will encounter in STPEC courses. Focused on understanding the methodologies of social theory, political economy, and history, and issues of race, gender, global inequality, and the postcolonial world.

Focus on narrative problems of love, desire, sexual identity, daily life, and death. These films' investigations of how we might gain distance on our life fictions by questioning and undermining viewer identification with narrative. (Gen.Ed. AT)

This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to the political and cultural landscape of Latin America through the lenses of some of its social movements. It focuses on some of the region's most recent polemics and political innovations in order to establish the foundation for a deeper understanding of contemporary Latin America while interrogating its geopolitical boundaries. Some themes are the impact of social movements on national policy shifts, the significance of indigenous groups for political discourse, or the use of human right agendas in local contexts.

This course examines migration and transnational movements in relation to Spain. Students will explore the implications of migration and the significance of self and public imaging in the definition of a Spanish national identity. After studying the participation of Spanish emigrants during the '50s and the '60s in the reconstruction of Europe, the class will organize its discussion around the main immigrant groups present in contemporary Spain: from Africa (Moroccan and Sub-Saharan), from Asia (Pakistani and Chinese), and from Latin America (Dominican and Equatorian).