Fall 2025 Course Offerings

Instructor: Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez

CRN: 13099

Days, Time: Asynchronous

Description:

Offers an interdisciplinary introduction to Latinos and people of Latin American and Caribbean origin in the United States as well as to the regions of Latin America and the Caribbean. Dispels a series of powerful myths associated with U.S. Latinos and in Latin American and Caribbean society, such as racial inferiority, poverty, machismo, and violence. Introduces the construction of Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean identities as well as the politics, economics, history, and culture.

Instructor: Isabel Martinez

CRN: 16258

Days, Time: MW 2:50-4:30PM

Description:

Surveys topics related to Latinx youthhood. Includes historical, social, and cultural roots of Latinx youthhoods in the United States and how Latinx youthhood has been shaped within colonial, transnational, and global contexts. Emphasizes understanding the ways in which social institutions found in and across the United States and Latin American sending communities have structured Latinx youthhoods in relation to race, gender, class, and citizenship, as well as how Latinx youths have exercised agency to contest the social inequalities resulting from the practices and policies of these social institutions.

Also listed as SPNS

Instructor: Alan West-Duran

CRN: 11105

Days, Time: MWTh 10:30-11:35AM

Description:

Examines the rich interconnections between literature and language and the culture that supports them. Discusses the relationship of language to literature and investigates how language and literatures are embedded in culture. Addresses several very broad and important questions, such as the relationship between language and culture; the relationship between language and thought; the definition of cultural relativism; and how ethical dilemmas are expressed in different cultures. Explores the relationship of esthetic and rhetorical traditions in given languages to the culture from which they sprang. In this context, examines the extremely interesting case of American Sign Language and how a gestural language sheds light on these issues.

Also listed as SPNS

Instructor: Daniel Voionmaa

CRN: 36349

Days, Time: MWR 10:30-11:35AM

Description:

Offers students an opportunity to learn about Latin American culture through the study of historical episodes such as colonization, independence, and dictatorships. Explores current issues including migration, globalization, and digital media. Examines writings by Latin American authors and selected films from Latin America. Conducted in English.

Instructor: Alan West-Duran

CRN: 14748

Days, Time: MW 2:50-4:30 pm

Description:

Introduces the study of world cinema from the past several decades as a form of artistic and cultural expression. Emphasizes the way that different ethnicities and cultures mix and even clash within national boundaries. Readings cover such topics as the postcolonial inheritance, immigration, the boundaries of class, the pressures of modernization, ethnic identities, and historical memory. Examines storytelling in its multicultural aspects and deals with the diverse influences of entertainment cinema and art cinema, as well as measures taken by countries to limit the influx of foreign films in order to protect their own cultural productivity. One overall concern of the course is the place of film in contemporary global culture.

Also listed with HUSV and SOCL

Instructor: Matthew Lee

CRN: 13509

Days, Time: MTh 11:45AM-1:25PM

Description:

Examines racism, racial identity, and theories of social change and racial empowerment primarily within the U.S. context. Highlights different ways in which racism and racial privilege have been experienced by different racial communities, more specifically at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. Offers students an opportunity to learn ways to promote racial empowerment and equity. Using theory from primarily psychology and sociology, the course investigates the impact of social systems and institutions on individual-level and group experiences of racism. Investigates students’ own racial identities, a deeper understanding of institutional inequalities and intersectionality, and practical skills in leadership and community building that can promote positive social change and racial equality.

Also listed with SOCL

Instructor: Anjanette Chan Tack

CRN: 14948

Days, Time: TF 1:35-3:15PM

Description:

Examines the comparative racialization of Blacks and Asians in the Americas and relations between these communities. Introduces sociological theories of race/ethnicity, a chronology of Afro-Asian relations in the United States, and the impact of 1970s deindustrialization and post–1965 Asian immigration. Covers the internationalism of Black and Asian leaders (e.g., W.E.B. du Bois and Mao Tse-Tung) in the developing nations and the overlapping Civil Rights, Black Power, and Asian American movements.

Also listed with CLTR

Instructor: 4 sections

CRN:19456, 19457, 19458, 19459

Days, Time: 4 sections

Description:

Examines contemporary works of cinematography in Latin America, focusing on the culture and imagery of the Spanish-, French-, and Portuguese-speaking peoples of the Western hemisphere, including the United States. Critically engages topics of history, memory, and cultural resiliency; colonialism, racism, and patriarchy; dictatorship, revolution, and democratization; and nationalism, dependency, and globalization. Conducted in English; most films are in French, Portuguese, or Spanish with English subtitles.

Also listed with CLTR

Instructor: Cristina Arranz-Perez

CRN: 19460

Days, Time: MWTh 9:15-10:20am

Description:

Examines chronologically the forces that have forged Spanish culture and have made Spain the pluralistic society and multinational country it is today. Traces the development of the peoples of the Iberian Peninsula from prehistoric times to the present. Based primarily on the history of ideas, the arts, and architecture, incorporates history, sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, and politics. Conducted in English.

Instructor: Ramiro Martinez

CRN: 16258

Days, Time: TF 1:35-3:15PM

Description: 

Explores theories and research on the institutionalized forms of inequality that have accompanied the rise of advanced capitalism in Western society. Major topics include the competing definitions of class that have developed among social scientists; the relation between class and race in the United States; how class and gender have intersected historically; and the link between workers’ movements, political systems, and the forms that capitalist development has assumed in Western Europe and the United States. Students conduct projects in which they explore the conceptions of social justice held by members of subordinate groups.

• LACS 1220: Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies
• CLTR 1505: Latin American Culture, History, and Politics
• AFCS/HIST/LACS 1261: Global Caribbean

• AFCS 2330: Afro-Latin American Studies
• CLTR 1120: Introduction to Languages, Literature, and Cultures
• CLTR 1240: Latin American Film
• CLTR 1504: Cultural History of Spain
• CLTR 1505: Latin American Culture, History, and Politics
• CLTR 2001: World Cultures Through Film
• CLTR 3240: Social Justice in Latin American and Latinx Film
• CLTR 3715: New Narratives – Latin America after 1989 (conducted in Spanish)
• CLTR 3720: Literature, Arts, and Poverty in Latin America (conducted in Spanish)
• CLTR 3725: Representing Violence and Human Rights in Latin America (conducted in Spanish)
• CLTR 4655: Latin American Literature (conducted in Spanish)
• ENGL/WMNS 2451: Postcolonial Women Writers

• AFAM/HUSV/SOCL 2355: Race, Identity, Social Change, and Empowerment
• AFCS/HIST/LACS 1261: Global Caribbean
• ANTH/WMNS/POL 3100: Gender, Social Justice, and Transnational Activism
• ANTH 4500: Latin American Society and Development
  HIST 1206: Drug Trade and Drug War: History, Security, Culture
• LACS/SOCL 2365: Latinx Youthhood in the United States
• SOCL 3270: Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
• SOCL 3407: The Immigrant Experience: Ethnicity, Race, and Inequity in America
• SOCL 3450: Class, Power, and Social Change
• SOCL 4526: Afro-Asian Relations in the Americas Hinduism, Buddhism, and Beyond

Please do not hesitate to email us at LLACSProgram@northeastern.edu with questions, concerns, or potential substitutions for the electives that you think might be applicable.