AMST 224
U.S. Latina/o Religions
Last Offered Spring 2012
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed REL 224 / LATS 224
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

In this course, we will engage aspects of Latina/o religious experiences, practices, and expressions in the United States of America. Some attention will be given to historical contexts in Iberia and Latin America, as well as questions of how one studies Latina/o religions. Most of the course, however, will examine moments where religious expressions intersect with politics, popular culture, and daily life in the U.S.A. Given the plurality of Latina/o communities and religious lives in the U.S.A., we will engage certain selected religious traditions and practices by focusing on particular moments of religious expression as elucidated in specific historiographies, ethnographies, art, literature, and film. Rooting ourselves in the social, political, cultural, and historical contexts in which particular Latina/o religious formations arose, this Exploring Diversity Initiative course also examines issues of social and institutional power relations that influence particular religious formations.
The Class: Format: discussion
Limit: none
Expected: 15
Class#: 3536
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: based upon class participation, short writing exercises, a 5- to 8-page take-home midterm essay, and a 10- to 15-page final review essay
Prerequisites: none
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
REL 224 Division II LATS 224 Division II AMST 224 Division II
Attributes: LATS Core Electives

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