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Latino/a Studies Undergraduate Minor
Latino/a Studies Minor Curriculum
Core requirements (10 credit hours required)
- Comparative Studies 242, 243 (with approval), 367.04, 544
- Social Work 301
- Spanish 557
- Women's Studies 340, 367.02
Elective requirements (15 credit hours required)
- African American and African Studies 243 (with approval), 545, 595
- Allied Medical Professions 641
- Anthropology 553.01
- Comparative Studies 205, 242, 243 (with approval), 367.04, 544, 545
- History 598 (with approval)
- Linguistics 367
- Political Science 608
- Psychology 375
- Social Work 300, 301
- Sociology 380, 608
- Spanish 330, 331, 557, 689 (taught in Spanish)
- Women?s Studies 340, 367.02, 520, 540, 545
Independent research or fieldwork (5 credit hours maximum). Students can develop an independent project in consultation with an adviser
For descriptions of courses, please go to: Course Descriptions
Important note: Once a minor form is completed and signed by the Latino/a Studies Coordinator, students have to take it to an academic advisor who will then sign the student on to the Latino/a Studies minor as part of their overall university program. To find your academic advisors please go to the following link: http://www.usas.ohio-state.edu/directory.cfm
A Selection of course descriptions:
Comparative Studies 544 Survey of Latino/a Literature in the U.S.: Latino/a Literature and Culture
Autumn 2005
Instructor: Prof. Manuel Martinez
TR 1:30pm-3:18pm
Call #21221-1
This topics course will take a cultural studies approach to Latino/a Literature and Culture will focus on the history and cultural production of Mexican American and Chicanos/as in the twentieth century. Our focus will be on literary texts with some film studies. We will examine the ways race, class, gender, and generational identities have been articulated around the issues of citizenship, culture, political participation, and community. Possible writers include: Tomas Rivera, Ernesto Galarza, Sandra Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Pat Mora, Luis Valdez, Arturo Islas, Oscar Acosta, and Luis Rodriguez.
Courses of Interest
Are those courses that although are not in the list of core or elective courses approved for the program, can be accredited, with the approval of the Latino/a Studies coordinator, if the topics are relevant to the Latino/a studies area.
The following are examples offered during 2007 Winter Quarter:
Studies in Film: Latino/a Film: Mexico in Cinema
Instructor: Frederick Aldama aldama.1@osu.edu
English 578.02 - Call Number: 08367-7 - U G 5
Section Day / Time: M 0330-0618, W 0330-0518 - Building Room: DE 214
In this course we will explore how films north and south of the U.S./Mexico border creatively texture racial, sexual, ethnic, and gender identities and experiences. We will explore issues of representation by focusing on how directors use a variety of techniques--genre, point of view, tempo, mood, style, characterization, for instance--to complexly cue, trigger, and even re-direct viewer's cognitive and emotive schemas of brown subjects. We will view a variety of films as well as read critical essays on issues of race and ethnicity, contemporary Mexican cinema, and in narrative and cognitive theory. We will likely view the following films (in English or Spanish with subtitles): Aljejandro González Iñarrtiu's Amores Perros and Babel (2006), Steven Soderberghs Traffic, Alex Coxs Highway Patrolman, Luis Estradas Un Mundo Maravilloso and Estradas Herods Law, Salvadore Aguirres Back and Forth, Robert Rodriguezs From Dusk till Dawn, Jorge Fonss Mid aq Alley , John Sayless Men with Guns, Luis Bunuels The Young and the Damned, Alfonso Cuarons Y Tu Maman Tambien. You will be expected to write three 5-page papers, submit weekly response pieces to viewings and readings, and facilitate one 10 minute in-class discussion.
Women and Visual Cultures of Latin America
Instructor: Ruby Tapia tapia.14@osu.edu
Women Studies: 576 - Call Number: 20016-0 - U G 5
Section Day / Time: T/R 3:30 - 5:18
Analysis of Latin American women visual artists of 20th and 21st centuries, with emphasis on contemporary feminist theories of visual culture.
This interdisciplinary course offers students an introduction to Latin American women visual artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Focusing primarily on the mediums of photography, film, painting, and performance, students will examine visual texts produced by specific women artists in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Panama, and other countries of Latin America for how they depict and analyze the intersections of gender, sexuality, class, disability, race and ethnicity within the contexts of colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Introductory readings and discussions about the social relationships and cultural and theoretical practices that attend modernity and post modernity will complement our treatment of these artists works. Of primary importance will be the examination of these texts and contexts with an emphasis on contemporary feminist theories of visual culture. Class discussions and texts will be in English, and/or contain English subtitles.
Prereq: 10 cr hrs of wom stds course work or permission of instructor.
History 577.02 Chicano History 1900-present
Instructor: Lilia Fernandez fernandez.96@osu.edu
Credits 5 U G
This is the second half of a two-course survey of Chicana/o History. The course aims to familiarize students with the broad themes, periods, and questions raised in the field of twentieth century Mexican American (Chicana/o) History. Themes and topics include immigration, labor activism and unionization, education and segregation, politics, popular culture, and social movements. The course emphasizes a comparative approach to Chicana/o history in the Southwest and Midwest of the United States. We will utilize social categories of race, class, gender, nation, and sexuality as we interrogate primary and secondary sources.
Students DO NOT need to have taken History 577.01 to take this course.
