Latino Focused Course Offerings
Fall 2025
Course Title: Neighbors and Trading Partners: People, Culture and Trade in Spanish America
Course Prefix and Number: SPAN 3324 (CRN 24346)
Course Description: Examines the people and culture of select countries with strong economies in Spanish
America, with emphasis on understanding their importance as trading partners for the
United States. Taught in Spanish.
Course Instructor: Dr. Raquel Chiquillo
Online
Course Title: Introduction to Hispanic Film
Course Prefix and Number: SPAN 3385 (CRN 24348)
Course Description: Introduction to the study of Hispanic film. By studying films from a number of Hispanic
countries, students will broaden their understanding of the cultural and linguistic
diversity of the Spanish-speaking world and begin to appreciate the fundamental elements
of film art. Taught in Spanish.
Course Instructor: Dr. William Nowak
Online
Course Title: Mexican American Literature
Course Prefix and Number: ENG 3322 (CRN 23007)
Course Description: A study of Mexican-American literature and its cultural traditions from pre-Columbian
Mexico to the present.
Course Instructor: Dr. Sandra Dahlberg
T/Th 11:30-12:45
Course Title: World Migration
Course Prefix and Number: SOC 4309 (CRN 23748)
Course Description: Examines the diversity of origin and incorporation of immigrants in developed countries.
Focus on types of immigrants and their processes of economic, political, social, cultural
or psychological adaptation; present realities of contemporary global migration in
the context of competing theories in the social sciences; and the immigration policies
of western nations.
Course Instructor: Dr. Mohsen Mobasher
Online
Course Title: Latin American History
Course Prefix and Number: HIST 3318 (CRN 23668)
Course Description: This course covers the history of Latin America from pre-Columbian civilizations,
through the conquistadors, the colonial period, and the wars of independence. The
primary focus of the course is the 19th and 20th centuries.
Course Instructor: Dr. Pedro Acuña Rojas
Online
Course Prefix and Number: History of Mexico
Course Prefix and Number: HIST 3308 (CRN 23968)
Course Description: Mexico from its Indigenous origins to its present position as a burgeoning American
power. The influence of the nation’s cultural heritage and the reformist impulses
of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Course Instructor: Dr. Peter Soland
M/W 11:30-12:45
Course Title: Introduction to Latino Studies
Course Prefix and Number: LATS 1301 (CRN 23118 / 23742)
Course Description: This course offers students a broad interdisciplinary survey of the origins, cultures,
experiences, and conditions of Latinos-people of various Latin American and Caribbean
heritages-in the United States in the past and present. Through documentaries, films,
and literary texts we will explore topics such as identity, migration, environmental
crisis, and politics. For example, we will consider migration histories between Latin
America and the U.S, Chicanx activism in California and Texas, and tensions that contemporary
Puerto Rican artists are experiencing in a moment of mass culture consumption and
tourist colonization.
Course Instructor: Dr. Fernell Jimenez-Pabon
M 10:00 – 11:15; M 11:30 – 12:45
Course Title: Teaching Language Arts and Reading in Spanish
Course Prefix and Number: BED 4301 (CRN 20734 / 20735 / 23736 / 20738)
Course Description: Field-based course that applies language arts and reading techniques in Spanish
through interaction with urban students and teachers in a bilingual classroom.
Course Instructor: Dr. Blanca N. Campos, Dr. Blanca Iris Reyes, Dr. Janice Castillo
M 9:00 – 11:45; Online
Course Title: Health and Culture
Course Prefix and Number: HEA 3305 (CRN 24120)
Course Description: This course introduces the concept of culture as one framework for understanding
the relation between culture and health. More specifically, the course examines culturally-shaped
definitions, of health/wellbeing; illness causation and treatment theories, understandings
of health risk; connections between culture, health and stigma, healing/curing traditions;
the relation between health risk (vulnerability) and socio-cultural structures; gender
and health; and the meaning of cultural competency.
Course Instructor: Nkemdilim Chineye Anako
Online