Courses with Latin American Content, Spring 2023

A Berkeley classroom. (Photo by Keegan Houser.)

CLAS assembles a list of courses each semester that might be of interest to those studying Latin America. Here are courses taught Spring 2023.

For more information, go to https://classes.berkeley.edu/

The following list does not include basic Spanish or Portuguese courses. If you have corrections or additional courses to add to the list, please contact clas@berkeley.edu

Spring 2023 Courses with Latin American Content

Department Course number Title Instructor Day/Time
African American Studies AFRICAM 182AC 001 - LEC 001 Social Movements and Organizing Sarumathi Jayaraman W 4:00 pm - 6:59 pm
Anthropology ANTHRO 179 001 - LEC 001 Ethnography of the Maya William F Hanks TU, TH 12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
Anthropology ANTHRO 122E 001 - LEC 001 Archaeology of the Americas: Andean Archaeology: People of the Andes Christine Hastorf TU, TH 9:30 am - 10:59 am
Anthropology ANTHRO 292 001 - SEM 001 Experiments in Collaboration and Reciprocal Transformation Charles L Briggs W
3:00 pm - 4:59 pm
Business PHDBA 279PD 001 - LEC 001 The Economic Institutions of Capitalism in Historical Perspective Ernesto Dal Bo TH 2:00pm-4:59pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 150B 001 - LEC 001 History of the Southwest: Mexican-United States War to Present Juan G Berumen TU TH
11:00 am - 12:29 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 174 001 - LEC 001 Chicanos, Law, and Criminal Justice Pablo Gonzalez W 4:00 pm - 6:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 180 002 - LEC 002 Topics in Chicano Studies
Chicanx/Latinx Sound and Media		 Pablo Gonzalez TU 5:00 pm - 7:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 20 001 - LEC 001 Introduction to Chicano Culture Raul Coronado Jr. TU TH 9:30am - 10:59 am
Chicano Studies CHICANO 70 001 - LEC 001 Latino Politics Ramon Grosfoguel TU TH 11:00 am - 12:29 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 172 001 - LEC 001 Chicanos and the Educational System Maria del Carmen Martinez-Calderon M
6:00 pm - 8:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 180AC 001 - LEC 001 Topics in Chicano Studies
Art & Social Justice: Politics, Methods, and Practice for Community Based Work		 Jesus Vicente Barraza TH
4:00 pm - 6:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO R1B 001 - LEC 001 Reading and Composition Juan G Berumen TU TH
2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 176 001 - LEC 001 Chicanos and Health Care Bernard Griego M W F
11:00 am - 11:59 am
Chicano Studies CHICANO 131 001 - LEC 001 Contemporary Xicanx/ Latinx Art Production Jesus V Barraza M 4:00 pm - 6:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 163 001 - SEM 001 Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States Ramon Grosfoguel TU 4:00 pm - 6:59 pm
Chicano Studies CHICANO 190 001- SEM 001 "Latinx Pop!: Representing Gender & Sexuality in Latinx Pop Culture" Juana Maria Rodriguez TU TH
2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
City and Regional Planning CYPLAN 284 001 - SEM 001 Urban Theory Teresa Caldeira TU
11:00 am - 1:59 pm
City and Regional Planning CYPLAN 201B 001 - LEC 001 Planning Methods Gateway: Part II Daniel Rodriguez, Teresa Caldeira M W
12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
College Writing COLWRIT R4B 014- Sem 014 Reading, Composition, and Research: Perspectives on Immigration 2022 Jordan A Ruyle M W F 2:00pm-2:59pm
Comparative Literature COMLIT 60AC 001 - LEC 001 Topics in the Literature of American Cultures
Boroughs & Barrios: Moving in and through New York City and Los Angeles		 Karina Ruth-Esther Palau TU TH
11:00 am - 12:29 pm
Comparative Literature COMLIT 155 001 - LEC 001 The Modern Period: Portraits, Political & Personal Ramsey L McGlazer TU TH
9:30 am - 10:59 am
Economics ECON 280D 001 - LEC 001 Special Topics in International Economics Cecile Gaubert, Nick Tsivanidis W 10:00 am - 11:59 am
Education EDUC 188F 001 - LEC 001 Language, Race, and Power in Education Sahara Patricia Baquedano Lopez TU TH 5:00 pm - 6:29 pm
Education EDUC C142 001 - LEC 001 Education in a Global World Erin Murphy-Graham SU 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
English ENGLISH 166AC 001 - LEC 001 Special Topics in American Cultures John Alba Cutler M W 2:00 pm - 2:59 pm
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management ESPM 165 001 - LEC 001 International Rural Development Policy Claudia J Carr W 5:00 pm - 7:59 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 174 001 - LEC 001 Existential Panic in American Ethnic Literature Gregory P Choy W
2:00 pm - 4:59 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 176 001 - LEC 001 Against the Grain: Ethnic American Art and Artists Gregory P Choy TU TH
3:30 pm - 4:59 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 100 001 - LEC 001 Comparative Ethnic Literature in America Gregory P Choy TU TH
9:30 am - 10:59 am
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 22AC 001 - LEC 001 An Introduction to Abolition Pedagogy and Practice Victoria Ellen Robinson TU TH
3:30 pm - 4:59 pm
Ethnic Studies NATAMST 158 001 - LEC 001 Native Americans and the Cinema Enrique E Lima W
3:00 pm - 5:59 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 250 001 - SEM 001 US Latinx Visual & Performance Art Laura E Perez F
2:00 pm - 4:59 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 122AC 001 - LEC 001 Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary American Films Raymond Telles TU
3:00 pm - 5:59 pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 180 001 - LEC 001 "Indigenous Issues Across the Americas" Enrique E Lima M,W, F 12:00pm-12:59pm
Ethnic Studies ETHSTD 250 001 - SEM 001 Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics
US Latinx Visual & Performance Art		 Laura E Perez F
2:00 pm - 4:59 pm
Gender and Women Studies GWS 210 001 - LEC 001 Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies
Masculinity and Capitalism		 Leslie Lane Salzinger, Raka Ray M
12:00 pm - 1:59 pm
Geography GEOG 167AC 001 - LEC 001 Decolonial Border Geographies Diana M Negrin TU TH 2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
Geography GEOG 170 002 - LEC 002 Special Topics in Geography: Geographies of Race and Ethnicity in Latin America Diana M Negrin TU TH 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Global Studies GLOBAL 10B 002 - LEC 002 Critical Issues in Global Studies: “Sex, Money, and Power Around the World” Elora Shehabuddin TU, TH
5:00 pm - 6:29 pm
Global Studies GLOBAL 110L 001 - LEC 001 Latin America In Global Context Tiffany L Page TU, TH 12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
History HISTORY 103E 001 - SEM 001 Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History: Latin America Miles Culpepper TH 2:00pm-3:59pm
History HISTORY 280D 002 - SEM 002 Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity in U.S. History Bernadette Jeanne Perez TH 4:00 pm - 5:59 p
History HISTORY 100E 001 - LEC 001 Special Topics in Latin American History:
The US and Latin America		 Rebecca Herman Weber TU TH 2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
History HISTORY 126A 001 - LEC 001 Latinx Histories Bernadette Jeanne Perez TU TH 12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
History HISTORY 135B 001 - LEC 001 Encounter & Conquest in Indigenous America Brian DeLay TU TH 3:30 pm - 4:59 pm
History HISTORY 140B 001 - LEC 001 Mexico: Modern Mexico Margaret Chowning TU TH 11:00 am - 12:29 pm
History HISTORY 8B 001 - LEC 001 Latin American History: Modern Latin America Miles Culpepper M, W 5:00 pm - 6:29 pm
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning LDARCH 202 002 - LEC 002 Design of Landscape Sites Danielle Z Rivera M W
2:00 pm - 2:59 pm
Law LAW 262.52 -. SEC 001 Regional Human Rights Protection: The Inter-American System James Cavallaro
and Sofia Galvan Puente		 F 10:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Legal Studies LEGALST 172AC 001 - LEC 001 Decolonizing UC Berkeley Nazune M Menka TU TH 12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
Legal Studies LEGALST 135 001 - LEC 001 Law, Judicial Politics, and Rights in Latin America Monica Castillejos Aragon TU TH 2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
Legal Studies LEGALST 190 007 - SEM 007 Seminar on Topics in Law and Society: Mobilizing Human Rights Law in US Roxanna Marie Altholz TU TH
11:00 am - 12:29 pm
Linguistics SPANISH 40B 001 - LEC 001 Nahuatl Beginning II Julia Byrd M W 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (internet/online)
Linguistics SPANISH 40D 001 - LEC 001 Nahuatl Intermediate II Julia Byrd TU TH 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (internet/online)
Political Science POLSCI 126A 001 - LEC 001 International Political Economy Vinod K Aggarwal TU TH 9:30 am - 10:59 am
Political Science POLSCI 246B 001 - SEM 001 Ethnic Politics Leonardo R Arriola W 4:00 pm - 5:59 pm
Portuguese PORTUG 102 001 - LEC 001 Readings in Portuguese Clelia F Donovan M W F 10:00 am - 10:59 am
Portuguese PORTUG 104 001- LEC 001 Brazil in the World N/A M W F 1:00 pm - 1:59 pm
Portuguese PORTUG 275 001 - SEM 001 Critical and Stylistic Studies of a Single Author or Period
Brazilian Literature: Pasts and Futures		 Candace Slater TH
3:00 pm - 5:59 pm
Portuguese PORTUG 135 001 - LEC 001 Studies in Luso-Brazilian Literature N/A TU TH
12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
Public Health PBHLTH 226C 001 - LEC 001 Economics of Population Health William H Dow TH 2:00 pm - 3:59 pm
Public Health PBHLTH 260F 001 - SEM 001 Infectious Disease Research in Developing Countries Eva Harris W
3:00 pm - 4:59 pm
Public Health PBHLTH W225B 001 - LEC 001 Implementation Science: Applied Case Studies Stefano Bertozzi (internet/online)
Public Policy PUBPOL 230 002 - LEC 002 Politics and Policymaking in Comparative Perspective: The Politics of Policy Innovation in Latin America Dorothy Jane Bridges Kronick TU TH 2:00pm-3:29pm
Sociology SOCIOL 122 001 - LEC 001 Sociology of the Climate Emergency Daniel Aldana Cohen M W 6:30 pm - 7:59 pm
Sociology SOCIOL 201B 001 - LEC 001 Modern Social Theory Mara Loveman W 4:00 pm - 5:59 pm
Sociology SOCIOL C144L 001 - LEC 001 Latina/o/x Sociology Griselda C Mora TU TH 2:00 pm - 3:29 pm
Spanish and Portuguese SPANISH 135 002 - LEC 002 Contemporary Mexican Poetry: From the Revolution to the "War on Drugs" to the #metoo Movement Jose R Lujan Perez M W F
2:00 pm - 2:59 pm
Spanish and Portuguese SPANISH 164 001 - LEC 001 Spanish Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Variation Justin Davidson TU TH 12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
Spanish and Portuguese SPANISH 198 001

La Lengua Encantada Un Taller con Dani Zelko

 Dani Zelko M 3:00 - 5:00 pm (in April 2023)
Spanish and Portuguese SPANISH 285 001 - SEM 001 Digital Literature in the Iberoamerican World: Exploring Virtual and Material Networks Alexandra Saum Pascual TU
3:00 pm - 5:59 pm
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies THEATER R1A 001 - LEC 001 The Performance of Identity: Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity Vincente Perez TU TH
9:30 am - 10:59 am