17/06/2025
📣 TEACHING ASSISTANT OPPORTUNITIES IN LATINA/O STUDIES FALL 2025 📣
With Professor Leticia Hernández
The following courses are open to undergraduate and graduate students interested in a teaching internship for course credit. The professor initially meets with potential teaching assistants to share teaching philosophy and approach, and to learn about student interests. In order to be a T.A., students enroll in LTNS 685 or ETHS 885 for up to 3 units. Contact [email protected] for more details.
LTNS 460 Central Americans of the U.S.: History & Heritage
MW 2:00-3:15
BURK HALL 210
Who are Central Americans in the United States? What are their historical contexts & migration patterns? We will embark on our inquiry using the relationship between Central America & the U.S. as a frame. Our investigation will include testimonio, literature, art, film & historical and theoretical content. We will interrogate race, class, gender, & sexuality as we strive to understand the range of Central American experiences in the U.S.
LTNS 455 Resistance Literature of the Americas
MW 12:30-1:45 PM
BURK HALL 225
Resistance Literature of the Americas examines the histories, conditions, and ideals that motivate writers to use their craft as a tool for social change. In this course, we will take a critical look at the forms of oppression that the selected authors write against: colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, homophobia, literary canons. We will explore the various approaches that Latinx, Latin American, and Indigenous writers take regarding the art and craft of this genre. This course includes writers from diverse historical moments such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Edwidge Danticat, Eduardo Galeano, & Prisca D. Mojica Rodriguez.
