Humanities 264: Framing Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Spring 2025, Fridays, 12:00-2:50PM
Professor Heidi Tinsman, Department of History
The Core Course for the Graduate Emphasis in Latin American & Caribbean Studies surveys a range of (inter)disciplinary questions and methods related to societies of Latin America and the Caribbean. It interrogates the changing constructions of “Latin America & the Caribbean” as area fields and political imaginaries. The goal is to create a space of intellectual community and debate for UCI graduate students working across a range of disciplines, methods, and topics. Students are encouraged to explore the conceptual framings of their own particular research interests and to place those in dialogue with those of their peers and featured scholars.
The class is organized as a series of weekly workshops on the research and intellectual contributions of a particular scholar. In Spring 2025, the class will center on the scholarship of UCI faculty. We will read and discuss the work of a different scholar each week and attend a public lecture by that scholar during our class period. This is an opportunity for you to get to know UCI faculty and become familiar with new methods and paradigms. Students will be invited to make short presentations on their own research interests and discuss intersections with scholarship we have read. The course grading metric is P/NP.