Preapproved LALS B.A. Electives Course List

Pre-Approved LALS B.A. Electives

Lower-Division Courses

The following courses may be used as pre-approved substitutions for the lower-division elective of the Latin and Latin American studies B.A. and minor.

History

HIS 11A	Latin America: Colonial Period	5
HIS 11B	Latin America: National Period	5
HIS 12	Introduction to Latino American History	5
HIS 82	California Gold Rush in Global History	5

Literature

LIT 61Z	Introduccion a generos literarios de Espana y America Latina	5
LIT 80N	Latino Expressions in the U.S	5
LIT 80Q	Jane the Virgin: Latinx Readers and (Latin) American Literature	5
LIT 90X	Introduccion a la Escritura Creativa/Introduction to Creative Writing	5

Music

MUSC 12	Mariachi Ensemble	2
MUSC 12B	Mexican Folklorico Music and Dance	2
MUSC 80F	Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions	5

MUSC 12 and MUSC 12B must be taken three times in order to count as one elective.

Politics

POLI 61

Politics of Social Policy

Sociology

SOCY 15	World Society	5
SOCY 30A	Introduction to Digital Justice Studies	5

Spanish

SPAN 5M

Medical Spanish

Theater Arts

THEA 80M

Chicano/a Teatro

Upper-Division Courses

The following courses may be used as pre-approved substitutions for the upper-division elective of the Latin and Latin American studies B.A. and minor.

Anthropology

ANTH 110H	Brazilian Amazon Cultures and Environments	5
ANTH 110I	Cultures of Sustainability and Social Justice	5
ANTH 130B	Brazil	5
ANTH 130F	Blackness In Motion: Anthropology of the African Diasporas	5
ANTH 130J	Politics and Statemaking in Latin America	5
ANTH 130L	Ethnographies of Latin America	5
ANTH 130M	Inside Mexico	5
ANTH 130P	Ethnography of Southern Cone Chile and Argentina	5
ANTH 130U	Central America	5
ANTH 133	Narratives of the Popular	5
ANTH 176B	Meso-American Archaeology	5
ANTH 145X	Special Topics in Socio-Cultural Anthropology	5
ANTH 164	The Anthropology of Dance	5

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

CRES 160

Latina/o/x Geographies

Education

EDUC 128	Immigrants and Education	5
EDUC 141	Bilingualism and Schooling	5
EDUC 181	Race, Class, and Culture in Education	5

Environmental Studies

ENVS 122	Tropical Ecology and Conservation	5
ENVS 143	The Future of Sustainable Development	5
ENVS 145	Green Cities	5
ENVS 154	Amazonian Cultures and Conservation	5

Feminist Studies

FMST 115	Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas	5
FMST 124	Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas	5
FMST 175	Gender and Sexualities in Latina/o America	5
FMST 194F	Chicana/Latina Cultural Production	5

Film and Digital Media

FILM 165E

Chicana/o Cinema, Video

History

HIS 124A	Panama Canal and U.S. Empire	5
HIS 128	Chicana/Chicano History	5
HIS 130	History of Modern Cuba	5
HIS 131	Women in Colonial Latin America	5
HIS 134A	Colonial Mexico	5
HIS 134B	History of Mexico, 1850 to Present	5
HIS 185I	Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period	5
HIS 190A	Slavery and Race in Latin America	5
HIS 190B	Race and the Nation in Latin America	5
HIS 190D	Asian and Latino Immigration Since 1875	5
HIS 190T	Latin America in the Cold War	5

History of Art and Visual Culture

HAVC 140D	Chicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present	5
HAVC 144A	Latin American Art and Visual Culture	5
HAVC 160A	Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: Mexico	5
HAVC 160B	Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: The Andes	5
HAVC 162A	Special Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Ancient Maya	5
HAVC 162B	Special Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Inka	5

History of Consciousness

HISC 136

Latin American Thought

Literature

LIT 124B	The Contemporary Latin American Short Story	5
LIT 165A	Chicanx/Mexican American Literature	5
LIT 165B	Latino Fictions of the Americas	5
LIT 188R	Humanidades Ambientales	5
LIT 189A	De la conquista a Sor Juana	5
LIT 189B	El Siglo XIX en América Latina: cultura, política y sociedad	5
LIT 189C	Introducción a Spanish Studies	5
LIT 189F	Literaturas Latinas en los Estados Unidos: en inglés, español y Spanglish	5
LIT 189G	Cine y Literatura	5
LIT 189L	Poesía latinoamericana	5
LIT 189O	El Cuento Hispanoamericano: Variedades esteticas de la literatura breve en America Latina	5
LIT 189Q	Ficción y marginalidad	5
LIT 189S	La cultura popular en la narrativa latinoamericana	5
LIT 189V	Andean Indigenismo	5
LIT 189X	Estudios mediaticos	5
LIT 189Z	Literatura de Chile	5

Oakes College

OAKS 151A	Corre la Voz: Community Literacies and Power Seminar	2
OAKS 151B	Community Literacies Field Study	3
OAKS 152	Transformative Literacies	5
OAKS 153	Community Mapping	5
OAKS 185	Tracing Health	5

OAKS 151A/EDUC 151A and OAKS 151B/EDUC 151B must both be taken to count as one elective.

Politics

POLI 140C	Latin American Politics	5
POLI 144	Andean Politics	5
POLI 190V	States in the Global South	5
POLI 190W	Topics in Latin American Politics	5

Psychology

PSYC 119A	Development as a Sociocultural Process	5
PSYC 140F	Mind, Society, and Culture	5
PSYC 144	Latinx Psychology	5
PSYC 155	Social-Community Psychology in Practice	5

Sociology

SOCY 107A	Designing Digital Justice Projects	5
SOCY 117M	Immigration Enforcement and Deportations	5
SOCY 139T	Community-Engaged Research Practicum	5
SOCY 156	U.S. Latinx Identities: Centers and Margins	5

Spanish

SPAN 156A	The Language of Latin America Cinema	5
SPAN 156F	El Humor en Espanol	5
SPAN 156J	Contemporary Central America	5
SPAN 156M	Mexico and the Southwest	5

Spanish for Heritage Speakers

SPHS 115

El ensayo lectura, análisis y redacción