Affiliated Courses

Fall 2026

These courses will have guest lectures from Faculty Fellows. Students enrolled in these courses will be invited to attend other Latin American Studies Co-Lab (LASCOLAB) events, explore the benefits of interdisciplinary research, and to envision how the collaborative inquiry modeled by the co-lab may support their chosen path of study.

ARTH 3055 – Afro-Latin America History and Culture / TR 10:30-11:15 a.m. 
What does it mean to see Afro-Latin America through art and visual culture? This course explores how Blackness, race, identity, and belonging have been represented, challenged, and reimagined across Latin America and the Caribbean. We will focus especially on modern and contemporary artists and cultural producers whose work engages histories of slavery, colonialism, diaspora, nationalism, and racial exclusion. Along the way, we will consider how museums, monuments, exhibitions, archives, and popular culture shape what we know about Afro-Latin American histories—and how artists and communities create new ways of remembering, representing, and understanding those histories.

SPAN 3740: Translation I: Method, Practice, Field / CRN 24920 (Mulligan)
What do translators actually do? How do they make decisions and what do they do when a problem seems to have no good solutions at all? This course will introduce students who are on their way to fluency in Spanish and English to the method, practice, and field of translation. As a general introduction focused on Spanish-to-English translation, it is designed to guide you through a range of diverse translation tasks during the semester with the support of guided discussions, in-class workshops, and continual feedback. Each week, we will consider a set of challenges that commonly occur in translation, and we will learn how to navigate these perilous waters with responsible and innovative strategies. In this light, this course will appeal to bilingual students who enjoy problem-solving, creative writing, puzzles, word games, and the like. As a counterpoint to our linguistic exploration of translation methodology, we also will consider translation as cultural mediation which gives rise to such socio-symbolic relations as cultural custodianship (the gatekeeper) and opportunism (the traitor). Students also will learn about the field of translation as a possible post-collegiate career path, be it in the areas of legal, medical, technical, or literary translation; and/or as a path to other academic opportunities such as graduate programs at either the master’s or doctoral level.

SPAN 3160: Early Modern Latin American Literature / CRN 24915 (Mulligan)
How did the shape of Latin American literature transform from the early 1500s to the late 1800s? What literary forms were used to represent – with honor or condemnation – the cultural practices, political orders, and religious beliefs that were central to early modern society? SPAN 3615: Early Modern Latin American Literature is an opportunity to examine the historical process in which literature was produced in the Andean region that has become modern-day Peru and Bolivia. Through guided readings and seminar-style discussion, you will explore numerous genres – including epic poetry, chronicles, morality plays, satirical poetry, travel logs, ballads, and novels – which have been carefully excerpted into a reading list that will offer you a panoramic view of the literary landscape over the span of three centuries. As we learn to appreciate the cultural specificity of the region’s literary production, we also will locate and evaluate this production within the emerging system of global capitalism.