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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 Feminist Studies Politics
College Ten History  Psychology
Economics History of Art & Visual Culture Sociology
Education Literature Spanish
Environmental Studies Music Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Film & Digital Media Oakes College Theater Arts
ANTHROPOLOGY
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 124B The Contemporary Latin American Short Story
LIT 165B Latino Fictions of the Americas
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 30ABC 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 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