DRCLAS Guide to Courses

This DRCLAS Guide to Courses 2009-2010 brings together information on class offerings for Harvard College and graduate professional school students relating to the region from Latin American countries at Harvard University.

COURSE DEPARTMENT AND NUMBER	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR(S)	TERM	DAYS, TIME	Credits towards Certificate in LAS
*General Education*
Culture and Belief 21	Pathways through the Andes–Culture, History, and Beliefs in Andean South America	Gary Urton	Spring	Tu., Th., 1-2:30	1
Societies of the World 30	Moctezuma’s Mexico: Then and Now	Davíd L. Carrasco and William L. Fash	Fall	Tu., Th., 1-2:30	1
*Freshman Seminars*
Freshman Seminar 31o	Negotiating Identity in Postcolonial Francophone Africa and the Caribbean	Mylène Priam	Spring	TBA	0.5
Freshman Seminar 33u	"Our Homegrown Borges": Avatars of Jorge Luis Borges in 20th Century Literature	Antonio Cordoba	Fall	Tu., 2–4	0.5
Freshman Seminar 36y	Alternative Narratives: An Introductory Seminar on the Modern Literature and Historiography of Latin America - (New Course)	TBA	Fall	TBA	1
Freshman Seminar 41g	The Faces of Human Rights in Latin America: Anthropological Perspectives	Theodore Macdonald	Fall	Tu., 4–6	1
Freshman Seminar 44j	The Aztecs and Maya	Davíd L. Carrasco	Spring	TBA	1
*Core Curriculum*
Foreign Cultures 46	Caribbean Societies: Socioeconomic Change and Cultural Adaptations	Orlando Patterson	Fall	M., W., (F.), 11	1
Historical Study B-43	Slavery/Capitalism/Imperialism: The US in the Nineteenth Century	Walter Johnson	Spring	M., W., (F.), 11	0.5
Historical Study B-64	The Cuban Revolution, 1956-1971: A Self-Debate	Jorge I. Domínguez	Fall	M., W., F., 10	1
Social Analysis 60	Urban Revolutions: Archaeology and the Investigation of Early States	C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky	Spring	Tu., Th., 10	0.5
Social Analysis 70	Food and Culture	Theodore C. Bestor	Spring	M., W., (F.), 1	0.5
*Anthropology*
Anthropology 1125	The Moche of Ancient Peru: Politics, Economy, Religion and Art	Jeffrey Quilter	Spring	M., W., 1-2:30	1
Anthropology 1160	Introduction to the Yucatec Maya Language	Marc U. Zender	Fall	M., W., 11	1
Anthropology 1165	Digging the Glyphs: Adventures in Decipherment	Marc U. Zender	Spring	Tu., Th., 1-2:30	0.5
Anthropology 1177	South American Archaeology	Gary Urton	Fall	Tu., Th., 1-2:30	1
Anthropology 1710	Memory Politics	Kimberly Theidon	Fall	M., W., (F.), 10	0.5
Anthropology 1795	The Politics of Language and Identity in Latin America	Catalina Laserna	Spring	Tu., 1-3	1
Anthropology 1972	Reconceptualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border: Comparative and Global Perspectives - (New Course)	Robert Richard Alvarez	Fall	Tu., 1-3	1
*Economics*
Economics 1530	International Monetary Economics	Gita Gopinath	Spring	M., W., 2:30–4	0.5
Economics 1812	The US Labor Market	James L. Medoff	Fall	M., W., (F.), 10	0.5
Economics 2811	Social Economics	Roland G. Fryer	Spring	M., W., 8-9:30	0.5
*English*
English 187	Native American Literary Traditions	Lisa T. Brooks	Spring	Tu., Th., 11	0.5
*Government*
Government 20	Introduction to Comparative Politics	Steven R. Levitsky	Fall	Tu., Th., 10	0.5
Government 1100	Political Economy of Development	Robert H. Bates	Fall	M., W., 11	0.5
Government 1295	Comparative Politics in Latin America	Steven R. Levitsky	Spring	M., W., 2-3:30	1
Government 1780	International Political Economy	Jeffry Frieden	Fall	M., W., 2-3:30	0.5
Government 2131	Comparative Politics of Latin America	Jorge I. Domínguez and Steven R. Levitsky	Fall	M., 2-4	1
Government 2576	Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States	Jennifer L. Hochschild and Claudine Gay	Spring	Tu., 2-4	0.5
*History*
History 74e	North American Borderlands History	Rachel St. John	Spring	Tu., 1-3	0.5
History 75c	Readings on Modern Latin American History - (New Course)	Sergio Silva-Castañeda	Fall	W., 2-4	1
History 84a	Early American Slave Revolts	Vincent Brown	Spring	W., 2-4	0.5
History 84p	Immigration and American Life - (New Course)	Denise Khor	Fall	W., 1-3	0.5
History 1505	Mexico and the Difficulties of Rule: A Historical Inquiry - (New Course)	Sergio Silva-Castañeda	Spring	Tu., Th., 1	1
History 1506	Central American and Mexican (or Mesoamerican) Peoples: 1500-1840 - (New Course)	TBA	Fall	Tu., Th., 12	1
*History and Literature*
History and Literature 901	Stories of Slavery and Freedom	Timothy P. McCarthy	Fall	W., 3-5	0.5
History and Literature 90s	Cloak and Swagger: Fashioning the Body in Early Modern Europe and the New World - (New Course)	Nenita Ponce de Leon Elphick	Fall	Tu., 2–4	0.5
History and Literature 90t	Legacies of Torture - (New Course)	Karen E. Bishop	Spring	Tu., 2-4	0.5
*History of Art and Architecture*
History of Art and Architecture 1	Landmarks of World Art & Architecture	Neil Levine	Spring	Tu., Th., 12	0.5
History of Art and Architecture 197g	Colonial Art	Thomas B. F. Cummins	Fall	M., W., 12	1
*History of Science*
History of Science 214v	The Old Science in the New World: Nature, Culture, and Empire in the Age of Exploration: Seminar - (New Course)	Nicolas Wey-Gomez	Spring	W., 4-6	0.5
*Organismic and Evolutionary Biology*
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 51	Biology and Evolution of Invertebrate Animals	Gonzalo Giribet and Cassandra G. Extavour	Spring	Tu., Th., 10-11:30	0.5
*The Study of Religion*
Religion 16	Religious Dimensions in Human Experience	Davíd L. Carrasco	Fall	W., 1-3	0.5
*Romance Languages and Literatures*
Latin American Studies 70	Modernity, Culture and Politics in Latin America	Nicolau Sevcenko	Spring	Th., 3-5	1
Latin American Studies 98	Tutorial—Junior Year	José Rabasa and staff	Fall, Spring	TBA	1
Latin American Studies 99	Tutorial—Senior Year	José Rabasa and staff	Year	TBA	1
Portuguese A	Beginning Portuguese	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Year	M., W., F., 12	-
Portuguese Ac	Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Fall	M., W., F., 12 or 1	-
Portuguese Ad	Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Spring	M., W., F., 12 or 1	-
Portuguese Ba	Introduction to Portuguese	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Spring	M., W., 3–5 or Tu., Th., 3–5	-
Portuguese Ca	Intermediate Portuguese I	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Fall	M., W., 2–3:30 or Tu., Th., 11:30–1	-
Portuguese Cb	Intermediate Portuguese II	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Spring	Tu., Th., 11:30–1	-
Portuguese 37	Brasil hoje: Contemporary Brazilian Culture through Media	Clémence Jouët-Pastré	Fall	M., W., 2:30–4 or Tu., Th., 11:30–1	1
Portuguese 44	Images of Brazil: Contemporary Brazilian Cinema	Clémence Jouët-Pastré	Spring	M., W., 2:30–4	1
Portuguese 60	Portuguese and the Community	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Fall	Tu., Th., 11:30–1	1
Portuguese 91r	Supervised Reading and Research	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Fall, Spring	TBA	1
Portuguese 97	Tutorial — Sophomore Year	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Spring	M., W., 2–3:30	1
Portuguese 98	Tutorial — Junior Year	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Fall, Spring	TBA	1
Portuguese 99	Tutorial — Senior Year	Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff	Year	TBA	1
Portuguese 166	Literature, History and Subjectivity: from Machado de Assis to Clarice Lispector - (New Course)	Nicolau Sevcenko	Fall	Th., 3–5	1
Portuguese 172	Culture and Popular Culture: clashes of times, territories, languages and imaginations - (New Course)	Nicolau Sevcenko	Spring	W., 5–7	1
Portuguese 250	Marginal, Underground and Eccentric: an aesthetics of subversion - (New Course)	Nicolau Sevcenko	Fall	W., 5–7	1
Romance Studies 79	Romance Languages and Cultures in Comparative Perspective	Elvira G. DiFabio and staff	Spring	Tu., Th., 1–3	1
Romance Studies 91r	Supervised Reading and Research	Mary M. Gaylord and staff	Fall, Spring	TBA	0.5
Romance Studies 97	Tutorial—Sophomore Year	Mary M. Gaylord and staff	Fall, Spring	TBA	0.5
Romance Studies 98	Tutorial—Junior Year	Mary M. Gaylord and staff	Fall, Spring	TBA	0.5
Romance Studies 99	Tutorial–Senior Year	Mary M. Gaylord and staff	Year	TBA	0.5
Spanish Aa	Beginning Spanish I	Johanna Damgaard Liander and staff	Fall, Spring	M., through Th., 9, 10, 11, 1 or 2	-
Spanish Ab	Beginning Spanish II	Johanna Damgaard Liander and staff	Fall, Spring	M., through Th., 9, 10, 11, 1 or 2	-
Spanish Acd	Intensive Beginning Spanish: Special Course	Nina C. de W. Ingrao and staff	Fall, Spring	M., W., F., 11, M., W., F. 12 and W. 2	-
Spanish Ax	Reading Spanish	Nina C. de W. Ingrao and staff	Spring	Tu., Th., 11:30–1	-
Spanish C	Intermediate Spanish	Adriana Gutiérrez and staff	Fall, Spring	M., T., W., Th. 9, 10, 11, or 1	-
Spanish 30	Advanced Language Review through Literature and Culture, I	Adriana Gutiérrez and staff	Fall, Spring	M., W., F. 10, 11, or 1	0.5
Spanish 40	Advanced Language Review through Literature and Culture, II	Johanna Damgaard Liander and staff	Fall, Spring	M., W., F., 10, 11, 1	0.5
Spanish 50	Writing and Performance	Adriana Gutiérrez and staff	Fall, Spring	Tu., Th. 11:30-1 or Tu., Th. 1-2:30	1
Spanish 60	Spanish and the Community	Johanna Damgaard Liander and staff	Fall, Spring	Tu., Th., 10-11:30	1
Spanish 71a	Continuity and Discontinuity in Colonial Latin America	José Rabasa	Fall	M., W., (F.) 11	1
Spanish 90h	Allegories of Identity in Latin American Literature - (New Course)	Norman A. Valencia	Fall	M., W., (F.) 12	1
Spanish 90j	La juventud latinoamericana en el cine y la literatura - (New Course)	Maria Ospina	Spring	M., W., (F.), 12	1
Spanish 91r	Supervised Reading and Research	Johanna Damgaard Liander and staff	Fall, Spring	TBA	1
Spanish 97	Tutorial—Sophomore Year	José Rabasa	Spring	Tu., Th., 10–11:30	1
Spanish 98	Tutorial—Junior Year	Johanna Damgaard Liander and staff	Fall, Spring	TBA	1
Spanish 99	Tutorial—Senior Year	Johanna Damgaard Liander and staff	Year	TBA	1
Spanish 134	Tracing Voice in Nahuatl Poetry and Painting	José Rabasa	Fall	W., 2–4	1
Spanish 139	Trazar y tramar: La selva en la narrativa latinoamericana - (New Course)	Maria Ospina	Fall	M., 3-5	1
Spanish 157	"Civilization and Barbarism" and its Discontents - (New Course)	Norman A. Valencia	Spring	M., 1–3	1
Spanish 159	Escrituras de la crisis: Violencia y narrativa en la Latinoamérica contemporánea - (New Course)	Maria Ospina	Spring	M., 3–5	1
Spanish 168	Madness, Transgression, and Anomaly in Latin American Literature / Locura, transgresión y anomalía en la literatura latinoamericana - (New Course)	Gonzalo M. Aguilar	Fall	Tu., 3–5	1
Spanish 183	Names of the Father in Latin American Literature: Paternalism, Politics and Literary Form - (New Course)	Norman A. Valencia	Spring	Tu., 3–5	1
Spanish 218	Colonial/Postcolonial Studies	José Rabasa	Spring	Tu., 1–3	1
Spanish 262	História pública y privada en la novela latinoamericana - (New Course)	Sergio M. Ramirez	Fall	Th., 3–5	1
Spanish 268	Latin American Cinema and the Question of Poverty / El Cine Latinoamericano y la cuestión de la pobreza - (New Course)	Gonzalo M. Aguilar	Fall	M., 1–3	1
*Social Studies*
Social Studies 98jw	Citizenship Rights: Theory and Practice	Theodore Macdonald	Spring	TBA	0.5
Social Studies 98kg	The Politics of Health and Welfare in the Developing World	Nara Dillon	Spring	TBA	0.5
Social Studies 98lf	Globalization and the Nation State - (New Course)	Nikolas Prevelakis	Spring	TBA	0.5
Social Studies 98lj	The Latin American Quest for Development and Equality - (New Course)	Sergio Silva-Castaneda	Fall	Th., 2–4	1
*Sociology*
Sociology 98H	Immigration, Politics, and Movements - (New Course)	Luisa Laura Heredia	Spring	TBA	0.5
Sociology 134	Theories of Power and Postcommunist Societies	Laura L. Adams	Fall	Tu., Th., 1–2:30	0.5
Sociology 175	Sociology of Immigration - (New Course)	Luisa Laura Heredia	Fall	M., W., 12	0.5
Sociology 222	Transnational Migration from the Hispanic Caribbean - (New Course)	TBA	Fall	M., 6–8 p.m.	1

*Harvard* *Business School*
1130	Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism	Geoffrey Jones	Fall
1166	Managing International Trade and Investment	Gunnar Trumbull	Fall
1180	Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE)	Rafael di Tella	Winter
*Graduate School of Design* *** for spring 2010 courses, check back at <www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/courses>
1501	Havana In Our Time: Developing Urban Design and Planning Strategies for Change	Leland Cott	Fall	Tu., F., 2 - 6
*Harvard* *Divinity School*
2102	Women, Folklore, and Afro-Atlantic Religion	Solimar Otero	Spring	TBA
2355	Encountering the Other: The Expansion of the Christian West, 1650-1850	David Hempton	Fall	Tu., Th., 8:30-10
2722	Introduction to Afro-Modernity and Trans-Atlantic Religion	Aisha Beliso-De Jesus	Fall	M., W., 10
2726	Ethnography of the African Diaspora: Race, Gender and Power	Aisha Beliso-De Jesus	Spring	Th., 1-3
2735	Voodooizations and Politics of Representation	Aisha Beliso-De Jesus	Spring	Tu., Th., 10-11:30
3160	Religious Dimensions in Human Experience	David Carrasco	Fall	W., 1-3
*Graduate* *School* *of Education*
A-801	Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective	Fernando Reimers	Fall	F., 8:30 - 11:30
A-810F	Human Rights Education in Comparative Perspective: Preparing Learners for Social Justice and Democratic Development	Felisa Lynn Tibbitts	Spring	Th., 4 - 7
H-311	Cross-Cultural Issues in Counseling and Advocacy	Josephine Myong Hwa Kim	Spring	Tu., 5:30 - 8:30
H-514	Comparative Perspectives on Immigration and Education Policy	Vivian Shuh Ming Louie	Spring	F., 9 - 12
H-525	Immigration, Education, and Identities in the United States	Vivian Shuh Ming Louie	Fall	Th., 4 - 7
H-607	Ethnicity, Context, and Family Dynamics	Nancy E. Hill	Fall	M., W., 10 - 12
H-813	Bilingual Learners: Literacy Development and Instruction	Paola Uccelli	Spring	Tu., 4 - 6
*Harvard* *Kennedy School*
BGP-256	Management, Finance, and Regulation of Public Infrastructure	Henry Lee	Spring	M., W., 11:40 - 1
CCJ-201	Workshop on Crime and Criminal Justice Reform in Global Context	Christopher Stone	Spring	M., 4:10 - 6
DPI-420	Culture, Politics, and Power	David King	Spring	M., W., 11:40 - 1
DPI-703	Understanding Democracy Through History	Alex Keyssar	Spring	M., W., 2:40 - 4
HLE-212	Policy, Politics and the Impact of Illegal Immigration from Latin America	Edward Schumacher-Matos	Fall	M., 4:10 - 6
PED-328M	Microfinance in Theory and Practice	Guy Stuart	Fall	Tu., Th., 10:10 - 11:30
*Harvard* *Law School*
47545A	Transitional Justice	Jamie O'Connell	Spring	W., Th., 1 - 2:30
48855A	Workshop on Crime and Criminal Justice Reform in Global Context	Christopher Stone	Spring	TBA
99410A	Prosecuting Transnational Criminal Organizations: Seminar	Philip B. Heymann	Fall	W., 5 - 7
*Harvard* *Medical School*
ME518M.41	Nutrition and Rural Medicine in Latin America	M. G. Herrera-Acena
ME518M.41a	Nutrition and Rural Medicine in Latin America	M. G. Herrera-Acena
ME518M.41b	Nutrition and Rural Medicine in Latin America	M. G. Herrera-Acena
PS509M.6	Advanced Psychiatry Clerkship in a Community Hospital	T. R. Griswold
*Harvard* *School* *of Public Health*
GHP214	Health, Human Rights, and the International System	S. Marks	Fall 2
GHP297	Field Trip: Health Reform and Community Medicine in Chile	T. Bossert	Winter
GHP502	International Reproductive Health Issues: From theory to Practice	K. Blanchard, David Bloom	Spring 1
GHP527	Political Economy and Ethics of Health Reform: Cases of Mexico and Taiwan	T. Bossert, W. Hsiao	Fall
GHP542	Field Trip to Brazil	M. Wilson	Winter
SHH215	History, Politics & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distribution	N. Krieger	Fall
*Harvard* *Extension School*
ANTH E-170	Race in the Americas	James P Herron	Fall	Th., 5:30-7:30
ANTH E-174	The Incas: The Last Great Empire of Pre-Columbian South America	Gary Urton	Spring	W., 7:35-9:35
ANTH E-175	Moctezuma's Mexico: Then and Now	William L. Fash, Davíd Carrasco	Fall
ANTH E-178	Digging the Glyphs: Adventures in Decipherment	Marc Zender	Fall	W., 5:30-7:30 pm
ANTH E-182	American Indian Religions: Place, Shaman, Ghost Dance	Davíd Carrasco	Fall	W., 5:30-7:30
ANTH E-215	Topics in Anthropology: Comparative Cosmologies	Gary Urton	Fall	M., 7:35-9:35
PORT E-1A	Elementary Portuguese	Celia Bianconi	Fall	Th., 5:30-7:30
PORT E-1B	Elementary Portuguese	Celia Bianconi	Spring	Th., 5:30-7:30
PORT E-3A	Intermediate Portuguese	Celia Bianconi	Fall	Tu., 5:30-7:30
PORT E-3B	Intermediate Portuguese	Celia Bianconi	Spring	Tu., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-1	Intensive Elementary Spanish I	Mariana San Martin, Sylvia J. Zetterstrand and Catalina Espinosa	Fall, Spring	Tu., Th., 7:35-9:35; Tu., Th., 5:30-7:30; M., W., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-1A	Elementary Spanish I	Irene Bergel, Catalina Espinosa and Alicia Campos Massó	Fall	Tu., 5:30-7:30; Th., 7:35-9:35; M., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-1B	Elementary Spanish I	Alicia Campos Massó and Louise Popkin	Spring	Th., 7:35-9:35; M., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-1V	Intensive Elementary Spanish I: Multimedia	Douglas Morgenstern	Fall	Tu., Th. 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-1X	Reading for Information	Mary G. Berg	Fall	M., W., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-1Y	Reading and Translation	Mary G. Berg	Spring	M., W., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-2	Intensive Elementary Spanish II	Sylvia J. Zetterstrand	Spring	Tu., Th. 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-2A	Elementary Spanish II	Mary-Anne Vetterling and Sylvia J. Zetterstrand	Fall, Winter	M., 5:30-7:30; M., Tu., W., Th., 6-9
SPAN E-2B	Elementary Spanish II	Joy Renjilian-Burgy	Spring	M., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-2V	Intensive Elementary Spanish II: Multimedia	Douglas Morgenstern	Spring	Tu., Th., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-3A	Intermediate Spanish I	Nina C. de W. Ingrao	Fall	W., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-3B	Intermediate Spanish I	Nina C. de W. Ingrao	Spring	W., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-5	Spanish Oral Expression	Nina C. de W. Ingrao	Spring	M., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-6	Núcleos culturales hispánicos	Lorraine Ledford	Fall	Th., 7:35-9:35
SPAN E-7	Espanol avanzado: Cultura y conversación	Lorraine Ledford	Spring	Th., 7:35-9:35
SPAN E-8	Spanish for Business: El mundo de los negocios	Alicia Campos Massó	Fall	M., 7:35-9:35
SPAN E-12	Contemporary Spanish Cinema	Johanna Damgaard Liander	Fall	Th., 5:30-7:30
SPAN E-155	Maestros del cuento latinoamericano	Johanna Damgaard Liander	Spring	Th., 5:30-7:30

This listing is complete as of August 2009. To add relevant courses to the listing, please contact the DRCLAS Student Services Associate, Yadira Rivera (yrivera@fas.harvard.edu)

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