LACS 201 - Critical Theory in Latin America and the Caribbean

FDR: Humanities (HU)
Credits: 3

The primary aim of this course is to examine in depth the origins, consequences, and redefinitions across time of the concepts of Latin America and the Caribbean. We will take nothing for granted as we pursue this undertaking, working transculturally and transhistorically to identify and investigate how these terms and concepts have been articulated, debated, reified, and reconceived since their inception. Such an endeavor is of supreme importance to students of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, to whom the course will present foundational texts to the interdisciplinary field. It also will empower each student, whether a LACS minor or otherwise, to situate themselves more affirmatively and knowledgeably in the multiple, overlapping, and sometimes contradictory discourses on the meaning and importance of Latin America and the Caribbean.