Courses with Latin American and Caribbean Content, Fall 2024

CLACS assembles a list of courses each semester that might be of interest to those studying Latin America and the Caribbean. Here are courses taught Fall 2024.

For more information, go to https://classes.berkeley.edu/

The following list does not include basic Spanish or Portuguese courses. If you have corrections or additional courses to add to the list, please contact clacs@berkeley.edu

Summer 2024 Courses with Latin American Content

Department Course Number Title Instructor Day/Time
Anthropology ANTHRO 159 001 - LEC 001 Indigenous Perspectives in Anthropology Nicholas Laluk TU, TH
11 am - 12:30pm
Anthropology ANTHRO 179 001 - LEC 001 Ethnography of the Maya William F Hanks TU, TH
12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
Architecture ARCH 139 001 - LEC 001 Special Topics in Architectural Design Theory and Criticism: Mexico City: Materiality, Performance, and Power C Greig Crysler F 10:00 am - 12:59 pm
Business UGBA 39AC 001 - LEC 001 Philanthropy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Alicia Perez, Colin Lacon W
1:00 pm - 3:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 130 001 - LEC 001 Mexican and Chicano Art History Jesus V Barraza TU
3:00pm - 6pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 132 001 - LEC 001 Spirituality as Resistance The Politics of Day of the Dead in meXicana/o Art Practice and Culture Jesus V Barraza TH
4:00 pm - 6:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 135B 001 - LEC 001 Latino Narrative Film Since 1990 Raymond Telles W
6:00 pm - 8:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 141 001 - LEC 001 Chicana Feminist Writers and Discourse Laura E Perez TU, TH 2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 148 001 - LEC 001 Chicano/Latino Theatre Workshop N/A W
5:00 pm - 7:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 159 001 - LEC 001 Mexican Immigration Pablo Gonzalez W
4:00 pm - 6:59
Chicano Studies CHICANO 161 001 - LEC 001 Central American Peoples and Cultures Enrique E Lima TU, TH
3:30 pm - 4:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 190 001 - SEM 001 Advanced Seminar in Chicanx and Latinx Studies : Community-Engaged Research and Reimagining Education Juan G Berumen M
11:00 am - 1:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 50 001 - LEC 001 Introduction to Chicano History Pablo Gonzalez M, W, F 11:00 am - 11:59 am
Chicano Studies CHICANO R1A 001 - LEC 001 Reading and Composition Juan G Berumen M, W, F
8:00 am - 8:59 am
Comparative Literature COMLIT R3B 001-LEC 001 English Composition In Connection With Reading Of World And Hispanic Literature TBA TH 11am - 12:30 pm
Comparative Literature COMLIT 202B 001 - LEC 001 Approaches to Genre: Lyric Poetry
César Vallejo & His Legacies in 20th-21st Century Poetry, Poetics, & Critique: Form, Commitment (Engagement, Compromiso), & Critical Aesthetic Autonomy
Robert G Kaufman W
2:00pm-5:00pm
Education EDUC 188 001 - LEC 001 Latinas/os and Education: Critical Issues and Perspectives TBA TBA
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 150 001 - LEC 001 People of Mixed Racial Descent Gregory P Choy TU, TH
9:30 am - 11am
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 175 001 - LEC 001 Literature from Ethnic Movements Gregory P Choy TU, TH 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 180 003 - LEC 003 Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Change in the North American West" John J Dougherty TU, TH
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 190AC 001 - LEC 001 Advanced Seminar in Ethnic Studies
"Inside and Beyond Walls: Migra, Masses and the Carceral State"
Victoria Ellen Robinson TH
2:00 pm - 4:59 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 24 001 - SEM 001 Freshman Seminar : Queer Latinx Studies: Theory in the Flesh Raul Coronado Jr. TU 11:00 am - 12 pm
Geography GEOG 138 001 - LEC 001 Global Environmental Politics Diana M Negrin TU, TH
9:30 am - 10:59 am
Geography GEOG 375 001 - WOR 001 Pedagogical Practices in Geography Diana M Negrin M
9:30 am - 12:29 pm
Global Studies GLOBAL 110L 001 - LEC 001 Latin America In Global Context Tiffany L Page TU, TH 9:30 am - 10:59 am
Global Studies GLOBAL 123L 001 - LEC 001 Perspectives For Sustainable Rural Development Clara I Nicholls W
4:00 pm - 6:59 pm
History HISTORY 8A 001 - LEC 001 Latin American History: Becoming Latin America, 1492 to 1824 Margaret Chowning TU, TH 11:00 am - 12:29 pm
History HISTORY 126B 001 - LEC 001 Mexican American Histories Bernadette Jeanne Perez TU, TH 9:30 am - 10:59 am
History HISTORY 144AC 001 - LEC 001 The US and Latin America Rebecca Herman TU, THU
12:30pm-2:00pm
History HISTORY 285E 001 - SEM 001 Research Seminars: Latin America Rebecca Herman TH
10 am - 11:59 am
History of Art HISTART 190T 002 - LEC 002 Transcultural: Mid to Late Twentieth Century Black Arts Movements in the Global South and Global North Busisiwe Nsikakazi Zamansele Nsele TU, TH
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Legal Studies LEGALST 135 001 - LEC 001 Law, Judicial Politics, and Rights in Latin America Monica Castillejos Aragon M, W
5:00 pm - 6:29 pm
Native American Studies NATAMST 71 001 - LEC 001 Native Americans in North America to 1900 Enrique E Lima TU, TH
9:30 am - 10:59 am
Native American Studies NATAMST C152 001 - LEC 001 Native American Literature Enrique E Lima TU, TH
12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
Physical Education PHYSED 1 094 - LAB 094 Salsa Dance 1 Kyungmi Yoo M,W
9:00 am - 9:59 am
Physical Education PHYSED 2 012 - LAB 012 Salsa Dance 2 Kyungmi Yoo M
12:00 pm - 1:59 pm
Political Science POLSCI 5 001 - LEC 001 Introduction to International Relations Amy Gurowitz TU, TH
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Political Science POLSCI 148A 001 - LEC 001 Latin American Politics Alison Elizabeth Post TU, TH
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Poltical Science POLSCI 191 003 - LEC 003 Post-Conflict Politics and Policing Aila Matanock TU
12:00 pm -
1:59 pm
Political Science POLSCI 290IC 001 - SEM 001

Emerging Research in International Relations and Comparative Politics 

Aila Matanock, Susan Hyde, Ryan Brutger, Michaela Mattes M
2:00 pm - 3:59 pm
Portuguese PORTUG 275 001 - SEM 001 Critical and Stylistic Studies of a Single Author or Period Nathaniel Zlotkin Wolfson W
3:00 pm - 5:59 pm
Rhetoric RHETOR 127 001 - LEC 001 Novel, Society, and Politics Pheng Cheah M, W
5pm-6:30 pm
Sociology SOCIOL 160 001 - LEC 001 Sociology of Culture Jill A Bakehorn M, W, F
1:00 pm - 1:59 pm
Spanish SPANISH 25 001 - SEM 001 Reading And Analysis Of Literary Texts Nasser Meerkhan TU
8:00 am - 9:29 am
Spanish SPANISH 32 001 - LEC 001 Magical Realism and Beyond: Latin American Literature in English TBA M, W,
1:00 pm - 1:59 pm
Linguistics SPANISH 40A 001 - LEC 001 Nahuatl Beginning I TBA M, W
2:00 pm - 3:59 pm
Linguistics SPANISH 40C 001 - LEC 001 Nahuatl Intermediate I TBA TU, TH
12:00 pm - 1:59 pm
Linguistics SPANISH 40E 001 - LEC 001 Nahuatl Advanced I TBA M, W
2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
Spanish SPANISH 163 001 - LEC 001 Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Spanish Bilingualism Jhonni Carr TU, TH
2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
Spanish SPANISH 280 001 - SEM 001 Seminar in Spanish American Literature:Plantation Cultures of the Caribbean and its Aftermath Daylet Dominguez TU
3:00 pm - 5:59 pm
Theater, Dance, and Performance THEATER 52AC 001 - LEC 001 Dance in American Cultures Sima Belmar M, W, F
11:00 am - 11:59 am
Theater, Dance, and Performance THEATER 121 001 - LEC 001 Performance and Culture
Resistance to Imperialism in Theater of the Americas
Angela Marino TU, TH
11:00 am - 12:29 pm