Approved Electives
The courses below have been approved for use as LALS electives (limit 2 in most cases). Please contact LALS Advising with any questions about approved electives. *Courses traditionally taught in Spanish that fulfill one language requirement course are noted with an asterisk.
ANTHROPOLOGY | |
ANTH 110H | Brazilian Amazon Cultures and Environments |
ANTH 110I | Cultures of Sustainability and Social Justice |
ANTH 130B | Brazil |
ANTH 130F | Blackness in Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas |
ANTH 130J | Politics and Statemaking in Latin America |
ANTH 130L | Ethnographies of Latin America |
ANTH 130M | Inside Mexico |
ANTH 130P | Enthnography of Southern Cone Chile and Argentina |
ANTH 130U | Central America |
ANTH 133 | Narratives of the Popular: Latin America |
ANTH 145X | Special Topics in Socio-Cultural Anthropology (if LALS-focused) |
ANTH 164 | Anthropology of Dance |
ANTH 176B | Mesoamerican Archeaology |
COLLEGE TEN | |
CLTE 135 | Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research |
ECONOMICS | |
ECON 148 | Latin American Economies |
EDUCATION | |
EDUC 128 | Immigrants and Education |
EDUC 141 | Bilingualism and Schooling |
EDUC 181 | Race, Class, and Culture in Education |
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | |
ENVS 122 | Tropical Ecology & Conservation |
ENVS 143 | Sustainable Development: Economy, Policy, and Environment |
ENVS 145 | Green Cities |
ENVS 154 | Amazonian Cultures and Conservation |
FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA | |
FILM 165E | Chicana/o Cinema, Video |
FILM 168 | National Cinema and Culture: Latin America |
FEMINIST STUDIES | |
FMST 115 | Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas |
FMST 124 | Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas |
FMST 175 | Gender and Sexualities in Latina/o America |
FMST 194F | Chicana/Latina Cultural Production |
HISTORY OF ART & VISUAL CULTURE | |
HAVC 140D | Chicano/Chicana Art: 1970 - Present |
HAVC 144A | Latin American Art and Visual Culture |
HAVC 160A | Indigenous American Visual Culture: Mexico |
HAVC 160B | Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Andes |
HAVC 162A | Advanced Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Maya |
HAVC 162B | Advanced Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Inka |
HAVC 180A | Contemporary Art in a Globalized World |
HISTORY | |
HIS 11A | Latin America: Colonial Period |
HIS 11B | Latin America: National Period |
HIS 12 | Introduction to Latin American History |
HIS 82 | Global History of the California Gold Rush |
HIS 124A | Panama Canal and U.S. Empire |
HIS 128 | Chicana/o History |
HIS 130 | History of Modern Cuba |
HIS 131 | Women in Colonial Latin America |
HIS 134A | Colonial Mexico |
HIS 134B | History of Mexico: 1850 to present |
HIS 185I | Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period |
HIS 190A | Slavery & Race in Latin America |
HIS 190B | Race & The Nation in Latin America |
HIS 190D | Asian & Latino Migration Immigration since 1875 |
HIS 190T | Latin America in the Cold War |
LITERATURE | |
LIT 61Z* | Introduccion a generos literarios de Espana y America Latina |
LIT 80N | Latino Expressions in the US |
LIT 80Q | Jane the Virgin: Latinx Readers & (Latin) American Literature |
LIT 90X | Introduccion a la Escritura Creativa (not a Spanish-lang elective) |
LIT 124B | The Contemporary Latin American Short Story |
LIT 165B | Latino Fictions of the Americas |
LIT 188R* | Humanidades Ambientales |
LIT 189A* | De la conquista a Sor Juana |
LIT 189B* | El Siglo XIX en America Latina: cultura, política y sociedad |
LIT 189C* | Introduccíon a Spanish Studies |
LIT 189F* | Literaturas Latinas en los Estados Unidos: en ingles, español y Spanglish |
LIT 189G* | Cine y literatura |
LIT 189L* | Poesía latinoamericana |
LIT 189O* | El Cuento Hispanoamericano |
LIT 189Q* | Ficción y Marginalidad |
LIT 189S* | La Cultura Popular en la Narrativa Latinoamericana |
LIT 189V* | Andean Indigenismo |
LIT 189X* | Estudios mediaticos |
LIT 189Z* | Literatura de Chile |
MUSIC | |
MUSC 12 | Mariachi Ensemble |
MUSC 12B | Mexican Folklorico Music and Dance |
MUSC 80F | Music in Latin American Culture |
OAKES COLLEGE | |
OAKS 151A/B | Community Literacies |
OAKS 152 | Transformative Literacies |
OAKS 153 | Community Mapping |
OAKS 155 | Research for Social Justice: Special Topics |
OAKS 185 | Tracing Health |
POLITICS | |
POLI 61 | Politics of Social Policy |
POLI 140C | Latin American Politics |
POLI 144 | Andean Politics |
POLI 190V | States in the Global South |
POLI 190W | Topics in Latin American Politics |
PSYCHOLOGY | |
PSYC 119A | Development as a Sociocultural Process |
PSYC 140F | Mind, Society, and Culture |
PSYC 144 | Latinx Psychology |
PSYC 155 | Social-Community Psychology in Practice |
SOCIOLOGY | |
SOCY 15 | World Society |
SOCY 30A | Introduction to Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies |
SOCY 107A | Designing ICT Projects for Social Enterprise |
SOCY 117M | Immigration Enforcement and Deportations |
SOCY 139T | Community-Engaged Research Practicum (Latinx communities) |
SOCY 156 | Latina/o Identity |
SPANISH | |
SPAN 105* | Intro A Span Study |
SPAN 156A* | The Language of Latin American Cinema |
SPAN 156F* | El Humor en Español |
SPAN 156J* | Contemporary Central America |
SPAN 156M* | Mexico and the Southwest |
SPANISH FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS | |
SPHS 115* | El Ensayo Lectura, Analisis, y Redaccion |
THEATER ARTS | |
THEA 80M | Chicano/a Teatro |