The following are courses related to the Americas in a Globalized World Initiative offered at the University of Oregon.
Through 2010-2011 seed grants from the Americas Initiative, the follow courses were funded:
Title: Climate and Culture in the Americas
Recipient: Mark Carey
Offered: Spring 2012
Project Abstract: The course will focus on climate change and indigenous peoples throughout the Americas over the last several hundred years. There will be a student‐faculty conference on campus in which students in the course will present their research alongside other faculty, more information can be found at http://uoclimateconference.wordpress.com/
Title: Latina/o Literature and Environmental Thought
Recipients: Allison Carruth and David Vazquez
Offered: During 2012 – 2013
Project abstract: A two-quarter, team-taught capstone seminar in English that investigates the complex meanings of ecology, environmentalism, place, and agriculture in Latina/o literature. The seminar explores topics such as migration, borderlands, diasporic communities, industrial agriculture and farmworker movements, and environmental racism.
Title: Seminar in Latin American Studies
Recipient: Pedro Garcia-Caro
Offered: Spring 2012
Project abstract: The seminar explores cultural production and a wealth of secondary bibliography from different disciplines dealing with industrial mining activities in five specific sites of the Americas: California, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The comparative methodology will allow students to analyze a rich and diverse cultural history and to think critically about trends, commonalities, and contrasts.
Title: Public Engagement and Immigrant Integration in a New Destination State
Recipient: Gerardo Sandoval
Offered: Winter 2012
Project abstract: The collaborative class will travel through the state of Oregon to expose students to Latino immigration taking place in regions of Oregon that have witnessed significant Latino growth during the last 10 years—Woodburn, Salem, Hillsboro, Hermiston, Medford, and Madras.
Title: Hispanic Literature in the US course and two seminars on Cultural production and cultural identities among trans-border communities within the Americas
Recipients: Analisa Taylor and Juan Epple
Offered: Fall 2012
Project abstract: Redesigning the course Hispanic Literature in the US and creating two new undergraduate/graduate seminars that will focus on cultural production and cultural identities among trans-border communities within the Americas.
Title: Ethnic Studies: Indigeneity in the Americas
Recipient: Brian Klopotek
Offered: Fall 2013
Project Abstract: The class will be designed to help students develop a hemispheric understanding of indigenous issues and to help facilitate conversations about indigeneity among racial and cultural groups who often have very different ideas about what constitutes indigeneity. The class will discuss legal, political, and conceptual borders, such as those between Indians and Hawaiians, Indians and Alaska Natives, Indians in South America and Meso-America, and borders created by various racial projects.
Latino Roots Course Sequence
Gabriela Martínez and Lynn Stephen will offer a new course sequence at the University of Oregon—“Latino Roots I, Latino Roots II”—to be taught during Winter and Spring 2011 through Anthropology and Journalism and cross-listed with Ethnic Studies and Latin American Studies. Latino Roots I will focus on giving a theoretical, documentary, and ethnographic understanding of the processes of Latino immigration and settlement in Oregon during the past 150 years. Latino Roots II will teach students how to produce a short video documentary from oral history interviews.
By learning how to conduct A/V digital oral history interviews, edit, and annotate them, students will learn Latino history in a hands-on way while they help build this Latino historical record. The assignments will cultivate dialogue among the Latino community and wider public with faculty and students connecting Latino community members and the public to their stories.
Anthropology
ANTH 310 Indigenous Immigrants in Oregon
ANTH 320 Native North Americans
ANTH 322Athropology of the United States.
ANTH 326 Caribbean Societies
ANTH 329 Immigration and Farmworkers Political Culture
ANTH 350 Olmec, Maya and Aztec Societies
ANTH 352 The Ancient Maya
ANTH 410/510 Latin Roots I, Latino Roots II
ANTH 410/510 Anthropologies of Development and Social Movements in Latin America
ANTH 410/510 Gender, Sexualities, and the State in Latino/a Latin America
ANTH 410/510 Latin American Society and Development
ANTH 434/534 Native South Americans
Counseling Psychology and Human Services
FHS 216 Diversity in Human Services
CPSY 615 Counseling Diverse Populations
CFT 619 Gender and Ethnicity
Education Studies
EDST 456: Colonization and Genocide
EDST 457: Diaspora and Immigration
EDST 663: Education and Immigration
English
ENG 241 Introduction to African American Literature
ENG 242 Introduction to Asian American Literature
ENG 243 Introduction to Chicano and Latino Literature
ENG 244 Introduction to Native American Literature
ENG 361 Native American Writers
ENG 362 Asian American Writers
ENG 363 Chicano and Latino Writers
ENG 468 Latino/a Autobiography
ENG 660 African American Foodways
Ethnic Studies
ES 254 Introduction to Chicano and Latino Studies
ES 256 Introduction to Native American Studies
ES 350 Native Americans and the Environment
ES 410/510 Caribbean Literature and Politics
ES 450/550 Race and Incarceration
ES 460/560 Race, Culture, Empire
ES 456/556 History of Native American Education
Geography
GEOG 214 Geography of Latin America
GEOG 342 Geography of Globalization
GEOG 445/545 Culture, Ethnicity and Nationalism
GEOG 475/575 Geography of Development in Latin America
International Studies
INTL 407 Development and Social Change in Latin America
Journalism and Communication
J320 Gender, Media, and Diversity
Political Science
PS 448/548, 449/549 Racial Politics in the United States I,II
PS 463/563 Government and Politics of Latin America
History
HIST 199 Soccer and Society in Latin America
HIST 380 Latin America I: Pre‐Columbian to 1750
HIST 381 Latin America II: 1750‐1910
HIST 382 Latin America III: 1910 to the Present
HIST 410 Military Dictatorships in Latin America
HIST 482 History of Latin America’s Indigenous Peoples
HIST 483 The Spiritual Conquest
HIST 483 The Cold War in Latin America
Latin American Studies
LAS 200 Intro to Latin American Studies
LAS 211 Latin American Humanities
LAS 212 Latin American Social Sciences
LAS 407 Advanced Seminar
Linguistics
LING 295 Language, Culture, and Society
LING 390 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
LING 410/510 Seminars in Language Revitalization
Philosophy
PHIL 216 Philosophy and Cultural Diversity
PHIL 420 American Philosophy
PHIL 452 Philosophy and Race
PHIL 657 Philosophy and Race – Contemporary Issues
PHIL 607 Latin American Philosophy
Romance Languages
SPAN 308 Spanish for Heritage Learners
SPAN 301 Identidades Hispanas
SPAN 303 Expresiones Artísticas
SPAN 305 Cambios Sociales
SPAN 318 Survey of Spanish American Literature
SPAN 319 Survey of Spanish American Literature
SPAN 328 Hispanic Literature in the US
Yamada Language Center
Portuguese I
Portuguese II