AMST 3500 “Visual Cultures of the Americas”
Cole Rizki
ANTH 3480 Language and Prehistory
Eve Danziger
Haitian Creole
Elementary Creole 1 MWF 10:20-11:20
Intermediate Creole 1 MWF 12:00-12:50
Advanced Creole WF 3:30-4:45
Elementary and Intermediate Creole classes build proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and provide an introduction to Creole studies. These classes also explore the following issues: health care, Haitian women's rights, and unpaid children servants.
HILA 2001, Colonial Latin America
Tom Klubock
HILA 3501, History Workshop: US-Latin America Relations
Tom Klubock
HILA 3051, Modern Central America
TuTh 11 AM-12:15 PM
Lean Sweeney
HILA 1500, Latin American Migration: History, Culture, Power
T 2-4:30 PM
Lean Sweeney
Maya K'iche'
KICH 1010/5101 Beginner K'iche I T/Th 3:00- 4:15pm (Central) (online)
The four-part sequence in Maya K'iche' (1010, 1020, 2010, 2020) is is designed to introduce students to three core content areas: K’iche’ language, Maya linguistics, and Maya culture.
POTR 4270, Becoming Brazil
Eli Carter
QUEC 1010, Elementary Quechua l
TuTh 10:05am - 11:20am
Esther Poveda
In this course, students acquire basic skills of Quechua within units on culture and history, focusing on conversational routines and forms. Cultural topics include agricultural cycles, community practices, Andean spirituality, and multilingualism. Historical topics range from food cultivation through Chavin, Recuay, Wari, and Inca cultures, colonization, independence, and agrarian reform. Introduction of these topics will enrich language learning within the field of Quechua studies.
SPAN 3060- Writing for Social Justice and Change
TuTh 9:30-10:45 AM
Esther Poveda
Have you ever wondered what kinds of change could you enact with more proficient Spanish writing skills? SPAN 3060 is an advanced, community-based language learning course that offers you the chance to enhance your advanced writing skills in Spanish. In this course, we will discuss selected works by prominent Latin American authors and podcaster who have used writing and as a tool for social justice and change. We will also engage in in-person and remote conversations with guest speakers. Finally, you will participate in a community project with one of the following organizations:
- The International Human Rights Law Clinic at UVA.
- Bilingual Open Mic organized by Lua Project.
- Volunteering at Cville Sabroso y Día de Muertos festivals
- English classes for Spanish speaking adults with Sin Barreras.
- Bilingual volunteers with the food bank Loaves & Fishes of Charlottesville
- Bilingual volunteers with the Boys and Girls Club of Central Virginia.
AAS 4570 – Afro-Latin America through Memory, Body, and Space
W 6:00 - 8:30pm
Guilherme Lemos
The seminar will explore how Black communities across Latin America have used memory, the body, and space not only to navigate colonial and racial structures, but also to envision other possible futures beyond them. Through historical scholarship, Black thought, literature, film, religion, and performance, we will examine how practices of memory, embodied knowledge, and relationships to land and space have shaped different Black experiences across Afro-Latin America.
As a 4000-level seminar, the course will also guide students through the process of developing a substantial research project, culminating in a research paper of at least 20 pages.