Pre-Approved Electives
The courses below have been pre-approved for use as LALS electives (limit 2 in most cases). Please contact LALS Advising with any questions about pre-approved electives.
| 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 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 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 153 | |
| POLITICS | |
| POLI 140C | Latin American Politics |
| POLI 144 | Andean Politics |
| POLI 190V | Problems 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 |
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