Latino Studies Program (LSP)Arts and Sciences

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LSP 1101
Research Strategies in Africana and Latino Studies

The digital revolution has made an enormous amount of information available to research scholars, but discovering resources and using them effectively can be challenging. This course introduces students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: ASRC 1900

  • 1 Credit Graded

  • 15421 LSP 1101   LEC 001

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    • TR Uris Library B05
    • Mar 20 - May 10, 2017

    • Cosgrave, A

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: ASRC 1900

  • 1 Credit Graded

  • 15437 LSP 1101   LEC 002

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LSP 1321
Music of Mexico and the Mexican Diaspora

This class is a survey of music practices among Mexican communities both in Mexico and in the U.S. Taking contemporary musical practices as a point of departure, the class explores the historical, cultural, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16925 LSP 1321   LEC 001

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LSP 2010
Latinos in the United States

Exploration and analysis of the Hispanic experience in the United States. Examines the sociohistorical background and economic, psychological, and political factors that converge to shape a Latino group ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2655, DSOC 2650, SOC 2650

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5934 LSP 2010   LEC 001

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LSP 2300
Cultures and Communities

Conceived as a service-learning course, the centerpiece here is targeted, engaged research and arts work with Latino/a culture-related organizations in Tompkins County like Cultura! No más lágrimas, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 4300

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8405 LSP 2300   SEM 101

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  • Please contact Professor Debra Castillo dac9@cornell.edu to add the class.

LSP 2400
Introduction to Latino/a Literature

From the radical manifestos of revolutionaries to the satirical plays of union organizers, from new, experimental novels to poetry, visual art, and music, this course examines Latino/a literature published ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2401, ENGL 2400

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16220 LSP 2400   SEM 101

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LSP 3010
Hispanic Theatre Production

Students develop a specific dramatic text for full-scale production. The course involves selection of an appropriate text, close analysis of the literary aspects of the play, and group evaluation of its ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3010, LATA 3010

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8230 LSP 3010   SEM 101

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LSP 3065
Immigrant America: Race and Citizenship in Modern Working-Class History

Immigration discourse and policy has played a central role in shaping the modern American nation-state, including its composition, values, and institutions. This course begins in the late nineteenth century, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3065, ILRLR 3065, LATA 3065

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  8722 LSP 3065   LEC 001

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    • TR Ives Hall 217

    • Martinez-Matsuda, V

LSP 3401
Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice

"We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something," writes Judith Butler in Precarious Life. Can our mutual vulnerability serve as the basis for political intervention and social justice? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3420, FGSS 3400, GOVT 3401

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18609 LSP 3401   LEC 001

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  • 18616 LSP 3401   DIS 201

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  • 18617 LSP 3401   DIS 202

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LSP 4032
Immigration and Politics Research Seminar

Latinos are a greater presence in American society and political life than ever before.   Students in this course will explore themes such as immigration, political incorporation, inter-ethnic relations ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4032, GOVT 4032

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9527 LSP 4032   SEM 101

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  • Government Seniors/Juniors given preference.

LSP 4210
Undergraduate Independent Study

Guided independent study. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7532 LSP 4210   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Velez, H

  • Guided independent study.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7603 LSP 4210   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7971 LSP 4210   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Garcia-Rios, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

LSP 4300
Cultures and Communities

Conceived as a service-learning course, the centerpiece here is targeted, engaged research and arts work with Latino/a culture-related organizations in Tompkins County like Cultura! No más lágrimas, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 2300

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8406 LSP 4300   SEM 101

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  • Please contact Professor Debra Castillo dac9@cornell.edu to add the class.

LSP 4339
Bodies at the Border

Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8902 LSP 4339   SEM 101

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LSP 4565
Traffic: Drugs, Bodies, Books

The trafficking in people and narcotics has held the attention of American writers and visual artists for more than three centuries. In this course we will read broadly to consider how various forms of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4920, LATA 4565

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16361 LSP 4565   SEM 101

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LSP 4701
Nightlife

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18463 LSP 4701   LEC 001

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LSP 6210
Graduate Student Independent Study

Guided independent study. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7533 LSP 6210   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Velez, H

  • Guided independent study.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7970 LSP 6210   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Garcia-Rios, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8434 LSP 6210   IND 611

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

LSP 6339
Bodies at the Border

Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8903 LSP 6339   SEM 101

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LSP 6424
Ethnoracial Identity in Anthropology, Language, and Law

This course examines the role that both law and language, as mutually constitutive mediating systems, occupy in constructing ethnoracial identity in the United States. We approach the law from a critical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6424, ANTHR 6424, LAW 7231

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17069 LSP 6424   SEM 101

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LSP 6565
Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics

Exploring a genealogy of Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Indigena/o theorizations of self and collective identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and post-colonial? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6565

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16253 LSP 6565   SEM 101

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LSP 6701
Nightlife

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16796 LSP 6701   SEM 101

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