Graduate Courses

Principal development challenges, trends, and policies in the region since 1960, e.g. climate change, poverty, inequality, de-industrialization, urbanization, crime and violence, with gender and racialized minorities as cross-cutting themes.

The applications of gender to different fields of knowledge, cultural expression, and institutional regulation. Gender will be interrogated as it intersects with race, class, ethnicity, age, ability and cross-cultural perspectives.

This course offers an overview of ideas, discussions and debates concerning representations of feminisms in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Chicana Feminisms.

We will explore processes of empire, colonialism, slavery, resistance, violence, social movements, decolonization, activism, displacement, body representations as well as Indigenous rights, and queer Latinidades.

Also, the course will examine Latin American and Caribbean contexts through the lenses of the intersectionalities of gender, race, class, nationality, ethnicity, sex and sexuality.