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LALS Fields of Study

These are recommended classes based on common LALS student interests and emerging areas of research. Please email lalspeer@ucsc.edu or lalsadvising@ucsc.edu for more ideas about what to take!

 

  • Climate Resilience and the Environment

    • LALS 80P: Environment and Society in Latin America
    • LALS 94X: Mother Earth, Capitalism, and Crises
    • LALS 158: Latin American Political Economy
    • LALS 163: The Amazon - Cultures and Perspectives
    • LALS 194X + 194L: Extractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts
    • LALS 194S + 194L: Nature/Cultures of Latin America

    Consider a double major in Environmental Studies with concentration in Global Environmental Justice

     

  • Culture, Ethnicity, and Mobility

    • LALS 10: Intro to Chicanx/Latinx Studies
    • LALS 45: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender
    • LALS 65: Religion and Revolution in Latin America
    • LALS 90: Contemporary Brazil (Online course)
    • LALS 100B: Cultural Theory in the Americas 
    • LALS 135: El Salvador: Expresiones Culturales
    • LALS 131: Latino Literatures: Assimilation and Assimilability
    • LALS 143: Race and Ethnicity
    • LALS 149: Whiteness in Latin America
    • LALS 151: Race and Mobility
    • LALS 163: The Amazon: Cultures and Perspectives
    • LALS 170: Indigenous Struggles in the Americas

    Consider double major with Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

     

  • Health, Race, and Inequality

    • LALS 54: Racism, Science, and Health
    • LALS 55: AIDS Across the Americas
    • LALS 56: The Right to Health
    • LALS 57: Drugs, Addiction, & Recovery in the Americas
    • LALS 175: Migration, Gender and Health
    • LALS 177: Migrant Health & Social Justice

    Consider double major with Global and Community Health

     

  • Hemispheric Histories

    • LALS 1: Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
    • LALS 79/S: Hip Hop Historia
    • LALS 144: Mexicana/Chicana Histories
    • LALS 157: Revoluciones Sociales
    • LALS 169: South America: History, Society, and Culture
    • LALS 178: Gender, Transnationalism and Globalization

    Consider double major or minor with History

     

  • Politics, Media, and Technology

    • LALS 80D: Political Change in Mexico
    • LALS 122: Media & Nationalism
    • LALS 126: Digit@l Americ@s/Digit@l Latin@s
    • LALS 128: Latino Media in the U.S.
    • LALS 152: Consumer Cultures Between the Americas
    • LALS 158: Latin American Political Economy
    • LALS 168: Inter-American Solidarities
    • LALS 172: Visualizing Human Rights 
    • LALS 180: Borders Real and Imagined

    Consider LALS combined major with Politics

     

  • Social Justice and Activist Scholarship

    • LALS 5: Intro to Human Rights & Social Justice
    • LALS 60: Latin American Childhoods
    • LALS 100A: Social Science Analytics + 100L: Writing Lab
    • LALS 155: Latin American and Latino Youth Movements
    • LALS 172: Visualizing Human Rights
    • LALS 194E + 194L: Unfree Migrations + Research Lab
    • LALS 194S + 194L: Nature/Cultures of Latin America + Lab
    • LALS 194T + 196L: Youth and Citizenship + Lab
    • LALS 194X + 194L: Extractivism and Socio-Environ Conflicts in the Americas

    Consider looking for opportunities at the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas