22 courses with the subject LAMS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course examines the variety of modes of living that thrive in what we call Latin America. Understanding such diversity makes it possible to consider how much is life in the United States connected to the past and present of Latin American peoples.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course is an interdisciplinary study of the Latinx population in the United States. We will approach the subject through literature, film, music, academic articles and direct contact with Latinx peoples.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3We study how business interests, scientists, and indigenous peoples think and engage with rainforests in radically different ways. Attentive to these differences, the course explores how rainforests are being destroyed by some groups and protected by others. Crosslisted as ANTH 202 and ENST 209.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3We examine how the notion of race plays a role in political debates that revolve around the issue of "national identity" in the US. We focus on how Black and Brown intellectuals and activists who challenge the notion that, at its core, the US is a white nation.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3We explore how the idea of the Americas as a “new world” of discovery and wonder was (and is) entangled with racialized systems of domination. Looking into anti-racist ideas and actions today, the course critically explores the shared histories and common futures of diverse peoples across the Americas. Crosslisted as CBST 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the historical and contemporary causes of political, structural, and systematic forms of violence in Latin America. Crosslisted as ANTH 205 and IREL 205.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3In this course, we will investigate the historical and intellectual grounds of films by and about Black people in Latin America. Crosslisted as CBST 206.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary struggles for recognition and respect with an emphasis on Indigenous groups in Latin America and global governance. Crosslisted as ANTH 208 and IREL 208.
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:3This course interrogates Cuba's positioning in the Global South as an inspiration for revolutionary movements of the mid-20th century. This interdisciplinary survey of history and narrative modes of film, literature, music, and popular culture discusses the formation and operation of "Cubanía", external foreign policy, and internal repression and censure under the constraints of the tenets of the Cuban Revolution.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course examines the various experiences, perspectives and expressions of Latinas in the United States, which vary according to gender, sexuality, race, citizenship, region and language. Crosslisted as GEOG 208 and WMST 218.
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:3Introduction to selected literatures, cultures and histories of the Caribbean, with close analysis of text and context. When taught in the summer, the course is the core of the Bucknell in the Caribbean summer study abroad program. Crosslisted as CBST 222 and ENLS 227.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explore the social and environmental histories of capitalism in Latin America and the US through literary, filmic and photographic representations of resource extraction. Environmental collapse is imminent, but many can't see it. Can the arts help us see our world differently so that we might forestall its worst effects? Crosslisted as HUMN 230.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3We study how policing has developed across the Americas and continues to shape everyday life. Students explore how the police and military industrial complex impacts communities and environments, and examine how peoples across the Americas are navigating, enduring and resisting these forms of state power. Crosslisted as CBST 259 and SOCI 259.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Afro-Latinx identity challenges the notion that Blackness and Whiteness are THE two political categories of race. In this course we will interrogate Afro-Latinidad via an interdisciplinary survey of history and narrative modes of film, literature, music and popular culture. Crosslisted as CBST 260.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will focus on major figures and issues within philosophy in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latinx U.S., with an emphasis on the connection between identity-formation and politics. Crosslisted as PHIL 264.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An interdisciplinary study of the competing definitions of the relationship between Blackness and Latinidad in US culture. We will approach the subject through literature, film and music, through academic articles from various disciplines and through direct contact with the local Latinx population. Crosslisted as CBST 270.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course deals with historic and contemporary economic problems, starting from colonial times and reaching the present integration into world economy. Crosslisted as ECON 273 and IREL 278.
Lecture hours:3This course traces and analyzes major developments in Latin American politics, society and culture from 1800 to the present. Crosslisted as HIST 282.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Topics in Latin American history: pre-Columbian to the present.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examination of the impact of the processes of global restructuring and the technological revolution on people, culture and society. This class will focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. Crosslisted as SOCI 311.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableIndividual research with a member of the Latin American Studies faculty. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A seminar that examines the psychological research literature related to Latinxs in the U.S. It considers the influences of Latinx cultural values, practices, contexts and experiences on physical and mental health outcomes. Open to juniors & seniors only or by permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 374 and PSYC 674.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
