Latin American Studies (LATA)Arts and Sciences

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LATA 1220
Elementary Quechua II

1210-1220 is an introductory sequence that allows students to develop basic fluency in Quechua, the most widely spoken indigenous language in the Americas. Students learn elements of Quechua's phonetics, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: QUECH 1220

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19786 LATA 1220   SEM 101

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Machaca Condori, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 1950
The Invention of the Americas

When did the 'Americas' come in to being? Who created 'them' and how? What other geographic units of analysis might we consider in thinking about what Iberian explorers and intellectuals initially called ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 1950

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18740 LATA 1950   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Bassi Arevalo, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19486 LATA 1950   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

LATA 1986
Disasters! A History of Colonial Failures in the Atlantic World, 1450-1750

This course provides an overview of disastrous attempts at colonization in the Americas from ca. 1500 through ca. 1760. Over thirteen weeks, we will engage with the question of why some attempts at colonization ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1986, ASRC 1986, HIST 1986

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20490 LATA 1986   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Schmitt, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20491 LATA 1986   DIS 201

  •  
    • F

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20498 LATA 1986   DIS 202

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 2170
Early Modern Iberian Survey

This course explores major texts and themes of the Hispanic tradition from the 11th to the 17th centuries. We will examine general questions on literary analysis and the relationship between literature ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MEDVL 2170, SPAN 2170

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17812 LATA 2170   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Pinet, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 2200
Perspectives on Latin America

Interdisciplinary course offered every spring. Topics vary by semester, but readings always focus on current research in various disciplines and regions of Latin America. The range of issues addressed ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SPAN 2200

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4501 LATA 2200   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Nascimento, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Conducted in English.

LATA 2307
Histories of the African Diaspora

This seminar will introduce students to the expanding and dynamic historiography of the African diaspora. The most astute scholars of the African diaspora argue that diaspora is not to be conflated with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 2317, HIST 2307

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17597 LATA 2307   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Byfield, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17608 LATA 2307   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Byfield, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

LATA 2361
Arranging Nationhood–Reclaiming Identity: Caribbean Folk Albums in the USA

This course explores how first-generation American and immigrant musicians from the Caribbean and Latin America arranged and commodified the folk music of their countries for audiences in the United States. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 2361

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20785 LATA 2361   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Cerin, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 2381
Corruption, Collusion, and Commerce in Early America and the Caribbean

Corruption in politics and economics has become a significant issue in the modern world. This course introduces students to the study of corruption and collusion from the perspective of early America and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2381, HIST 2381

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18773 LATA 2381   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Schmitt, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18774 LATA 2381   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Schmitt, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

LATA 2715
A Global South: Chile, the Pacific and the World

This course examines the history of Chile from the 1700s to the present, always with an appreciation for its place in a broader world but always also with attention to its regional and national specificities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 2715, HIST 6715, LATA 2715, SPAN 2715

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17672 LATA 2715   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Craib, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19803 LATA 2715   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture, one independent study, and one field studies. Combined with: HIST 2715, HIST 6715, LATA 2715, SPAN 2715

  • 5 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18014 LATA 2715   LEC 002

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Craib, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: students who attended the information session and applied. Accepted students will receive a permission number.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

  • 19804 LATA 2715   IND 602

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

  • 18041 LATA 2715   FLD 801

    • TBA
    • Mar 21 - Apr 5, 2025

    • Craib, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

LATA 2800
Perspectives on Brazil

This course provides an introduction and overview of Brazilian culture. It will study different periods of Brazilian history, through the analysis of films, literature, essays, visual arts, and music. ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PORT 2800

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17795 LATA 2800   SEM 101

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Osborne, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Conducted in English.

LATA 3336
Border Environments

This course focuses on a place and a concept where two of the most urgent issues of our times - migration and environmental degradation - converge, collide, and shape each other. It examines borders not ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17893 LATA 3336   SEM 101

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 3481
Sustainability Education Policy in the U.S. and Ecuador

This course connects Cornell and USFQ students to study Sustainability Education Policy in the U.S. and Ecuador. Focusing on UN SDG 4, the course includes collaborative research, international exchange, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one practicum. Combined with: PUBPOL 3480, PUBPOL 5480

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 20015 LATA 3481   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Ficarra, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Application required. See https://experience.cornell.edu/opportunities/cornell-spring-break-program-ecuador-sustainability-education-policy to apply.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

  • 20016 LATA 3481   PRA 401

    • TBA
    • Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2025

    • Ficarra, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Taught in Quito, Ecuador. Departure will be on March 29, 2025, returning on April 6, 2025.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

LATA 3550
Ancient Mexico and Central America

An introduction to ancient Mesoamerica, focusing on the nature and development of societies that are arguably the most complex to develop anywhere in the precolumbian Americas. The course provides a summary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17848 LATA 3550   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Henderson, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 3609
Brazilian Ensemble - Deixa Sambar

Deixa Sambar performs several styles of samba, Brazil's national music. Members need not have prior background in music-making, but a good sense of rhythm is desirable. Members include students as well ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3609

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  5957 LATA 3609   STU 501

  •  
    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Pond, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 3680
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art

This course concerns a selection of influential artistic movements in Latin American from the early twentieth century to the present. Attention is given to issues such as the effects of colonialism and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3550, ARTH 6550, LSP 3551

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 10276 LATA 3680   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 3800
Poetry and Poetics of the Americas

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the Americas? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  9744 LATA 3800   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 3801
War and Revolution in 20th Century Latino History

This course examines war and revolution as drivers of migration from Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean to the United States and Canada. From the War of 1898 to the wars in Central America, war and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3831, HIST 3801, LSP 3801

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18527 LATA 3801   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Garcia, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

LATA 4000
Contemporary Issues in Latin - Latino America

Interested in Latino Studies and Latin American Studies? This course will explore topics in Anthropology, Art, Economics, History, Literature, Government, Sociology, etc., of US Latino and Latin American ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 6000, LSP 4000, LSP 6000

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  5032 LATA 4000   LEC 001

  •  
    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Bassi Arevalo, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 4155
Topics in Latin American Art

Topic: Latin American Moderinsims and Technology. The involvement of Latin American artists with modern media technologies dates at least to the late nineteenth century and has especially flourished in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18826 LATA 4155   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 4334
Caribbean Worlds: Landscape, Labor and Climate Imaginaries

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 10973 LATA 4334   SEM 101

  •  
    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 4690
Latin American and Latinx Environmentalisms

This course provides an introductory overview to environmental thought in Latin America and the Latinx diaspora. We will discuss pre-Columbian approaches to the nonhuman and colonialism's transformative ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 4690, SPAN 4690

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19564 LATA 4690   SEM 101

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Fornoff, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 4910
Latin American Literature/Mass Media

This course examines Latin American literature in the context of the visual and auditory of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century, in which mass media such as photography, film, and the ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SPAN 4910

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17816 LATA 4910   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Paz-Soldan, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 4970
Independent Study in Latin American Studies

Guided independent study with a faculty member. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3750 LATA 4970   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Devoogd, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

LATA 6000
Contemporary Issues in Latin-Latino America

Interested in Latino Studies and Latin American Studies? This course will explore topics in Anthropology, Art, Economics, History, Literature, Government, Sociology, etc., of US Latino and Latin American ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 4000, LSP 4000, LSP 6000

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  5034 LATA 6000   LEC 001

  •  
    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Bassi Arevalo, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 6155
Topics in Latin American Art

Topic: Latin American Modernisms and Technology. The involvement of Latin American artists with modern media technologies dates at least to the late nineteenth century and has especially flourished in ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 18829 LATA 6155   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 6255
Ancient Mexico and Central America

An introduction to ancient Mesoamerica, focusing on the nature and development of societies that are arguably the most complex to develop anywhere in the precolumbian Americas. The course provides a summary ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17921 LATA 6255   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Henderson, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 6334
Caribbean Worlds: Landscape, Labor and Climate Imaginaries

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 11185 LATA 6334   SEM 101

  •  
    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

LATA 6336
Border Environments

This course focuses on a place and a concept where two of the most urgent issues of our times - migration and environmental degradation - converge, collide, and shape each other. It examines borders not ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17899 LATA 6336   SEM 101

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person