MATH 105 and 106 are designed for students whose background and algebraic skills are inadequate for the fast pace of MATH 111. In addition to covering the usual material of beginning calculus, these courses will have an extensive review of algebra and trigonometry. There will be a special emphasis on solving word problems.
(Offered as SPAN 427 and LLAS 427) The Colombian war is not only one of the most prolonged wars in Latin American history, but distinctively it has been “a war for peace.” Through a journey through the country’s modern history (1948-2020) the class will explore the paradoxical relationship between war and peace. Our archive will
be diverse, including literary, photographic, cinematographic, artistic, and forensic texts. The class will be
(Offered as SPAN 316 and LLAS 316) This course examines the dynamic interplay between language and power by focusing on racial and linguistic ideologies that impact minoritized communities in the Spanish-speaking world. An emphasis is placed on the emergent field of Raciolinguistics, which theorizes language through the lens of race and race through the lens of language. By doing so, we will consider the historical formations of power and the stigmatization of language varieties and their communities.
(Offered as POSC 201, SWAG 201, and LLAS 202) Drug trafficking is now a major aspect of international relations. This course approaches the international political economy of drug trafficking, from its trade routes on global markets to its influence in shaping nation-states. As governments declare “wars on drugs” from Colombia to the Philippines, narco-politics permeate local and national government, define international relations, and inspire pop culture.
(Offered as LLAS 200 and AMST 206) In this course students will become familiar with the major critical dialogues that have animated Latinx and Latin American Studies, addressing a wide range of issues from pre-Conquest times to the present. Each week students will focus on specific questions such as: Does Latin America have a common culture? Is Latin America part of the Western world? Is Latinx a race or an ethnicity? Is U.S. Latinx identity rooted in Latin America or the United States? Are Latin American nations post-colonial?
Independent work under the guidance of a tutor assigned by the Department. Open to senior LJST majors who wish to pursue a self-defined project in reading and writing and to work under the close supervision of a faculty member.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Fall semester. The Department.
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Independent reading course. Reading in an area selected by the student and approved in advance.
Fall and spring semesters. The Department.
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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Emphasis on independent reading, independent research, and extensive writing
[Analytic Seminar] (Offered as LJST 349 and SWAGS 349) At first glance, law and love seem to tend in opposing directions: where law is constituted in rules and regularity, love emerges in contingent, surprising, and ungovernable ways; where law speaks in the language of reason, love’s language is of sentiment and affect; where law regulates society through threats of violence, love binds with a magical magnetism.
(RESEARCH SEMINAR) Few twentieth-century intellectuals are as controversial and as influential as the German jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985). A prominent critic of liberal democracy during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), Schmitt generated novel theories of dictatorship, political theology, sovereignty, constitutional law, and emergency powers that were studied closely by all sides of the Weimar political spectrum.
This course proceeds from the premise that both law and cultural production—literature, film, poetry, etc.—condition how we understand, develop, and interact with artificial intelligence (AI). While the term “AI” only emerged in the United States in the 1950s, human fascination with artificially intelligent entities has surfaced in literature since Homer’s epics and continues to animate contemporary cultural production as AI itself advances at a rapid pace.
