Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of OSU courses related to Latin America. If you are interested in a specific course to meet the Area Studies requirement of the FLAS fellowship and it is not listed here, contact CLAS Assistant Director Leila Vieira (vieira.31@osu.edu) for guidance.
If you are an instructor and teach a course with 25% or more Latin American content that does not appear in this listing, please notify CLAS Assistant Director Leila Vieira (vieira.31@osu.edu) so it can be added.
Courses with an asterisk (*) require email from instructor and/or syllabus to show at least 25% of the course content is devoted to Latin America.
Undergraduate
AFAMAST 2253 Introduction to Caribbean Literature*: An introduction to Caribbean literature with a focus on prose, poetry, and drama.
AFAMAST 3310 Global Perspectives on the African Diaspora*: Study of historical processes, key figures and ideas, and cultural expressions of the worldwide dispersion of people of African descent from different times and places.
AFAMAST 3230 Black Women: Culture and Politics*: Examination of the social, cultural, political, economic, and historical forces, dynamics, and processes affecting women throughout the Africana world.
AFAMAST 3260 Global Black Cultural Movements*: This course focuses on hemispheric studies in the Americas, examining black cultural movements emerging after emancipation through the present. It considers the ways people of African descent in the Americas have used cultural productions--literature, poetry, film, music, visual art, and performance--to construct identities; agitate for equality;and understand aesthetics as political and beautiful.
AFAMAST 3310 Global Perspectives on the African Diaspora*: Study of historical processes, key figures and ideas, and cultural expressions of the worldwide dispersion of people of African descent from different times and places.
AFAMAST 4342 Religion, Meaning, and Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora*: While the practice of religion in Africa is as diverse as its people, three major belief systems define the practice: African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity. This course will examine classical and contemporary definitions of African Traditional Religion/s and the introduction and adaptations of Islam and Christianity in Africa, as well as religious practices in the African Diaspora.
ANIMSCI 3600 Global Food and Agriculture*: The integration of food, agriculture, environment, resources, technology, culture, and trade on a global scale.
ANTHROP 5602 Women's Health in Global Perspective*: A cross-cultural comparison of the political, economic, social, and biological issues surrounding women's health.
ARTEDUC 2600 Visual Culture: Investigating Diversity & Social Justice*: A study of the artists, the artworks, and art worlds from diverse ethnic cultures in North America. This course will develop students' skills in writing, reading, critical thinking, and oral expression and foster an understanding of the pluralistic nature of institutions, society, and culture(s) of the United States.
COMPSTD 2343 Slavery, Gender, and Race in the Atlantic World*: An examination of slavery in Atlantic Africa and the Western Hemisphere with particular focus on how conceptions of race and gender shaped patterns of forced labor, the slave trade, and the development of European colonial societies in the Americas.
COMPSTD 2420 American Food Cultures*: Historical perspective on the development of the American food system, including associated discourses and cultures, leading to exploration of contemporary concerns about industrial food, the American diet, and the politics surrounding these issues.
COMPSTD 4804 Studies in Latino Literature and Culture: Focused study of a topic in Latino/a literary and cultural studies.
COMPSTD 4597.02 Global Culture*: Examines contemporary global cultural flows, the concepts useful in analyzing them, and the questions they raise about power and cultural change.
DANCE 2181 Social Dance: Social dance for non-majors; includes survey of the history, theory, and/or literature of social dance.
DANCE 3402 Dance in Global Contexts*: Surveys dance forms from around the globe, offering insights into the religious, social, and political functions of dances in their historical and contemporary practices.
ECON 4560 Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Economy*: The economic, social, and political bases for and responses to increasing global economic integration.
ENGLISH 2367.01 Language, Identity, and Culture in the U.S. Experience*: Extends & refines expository writing & analytical reading skills, emphasizing recognition of intertextuality & reflection on compositional strategies on topics pertaining to education & pop culture in America.
ENGLISH 2381 Introduction to the Black Atlantic*: The term 'Black Atlantic' describes encounters between Africans, Europeans, and Americans that have shaped our modern world: its politics, its literature, its art, and its economics. This class examines the literature of these encounters and relevant media in visual art and cinema depicting enslavement of Africans and resistance to slavery, racism, and the politics of white supremacy.
ENR 3530 Women, Environment and Development*: Interdisciplinary study of women's roles as environmental stewards and in resource-based development in global context. Attention given to gender differences in environmental and rural development practices.
ETHNSTD 3572 Central American Migrants in the United States: Survey of the history and culture of Central Americans in the United States. Through an interdisciplinary approach spanning the humanities and social sciences, students will analyze the history of mass exodus and migration from Central America, settlement and formation of diaspora communities in major urban areas, and community work and organizing of Central Americans in key cities across the U.S.
FREN 2804 Rebels & Runaways: Course covers topics in Caribbean and Latin American studies, gender and sexuality, and race and ethnicity. This is an interdisciplinary course that draws on the fields of history, literature, anthropology, visual art and art history, and film studies. From the early modern period to today, the maroon, or “runaway” fugitive slave, has played a central role in shaping U.S. and Caribbean history, literature, and culture. Building from historical sources, escape narratives, 19th and 20th-century art, film, and literature, graphic novels, and contemporary social and political movements, this course will introduce students to the long-lasting, innovative activities of maroons and their descendants in the U.S., Jamaica, Haiti, and the French-speaking Caribbean. We will explore how maroons rejected their oppression through daring tactics of escape, fierce practices of resistance, and powerful modes of belonging and community-formation.
FRIT 3054 The 21st-Century Skill: Intercultural Competence for Global Citizenship*: In this course students will develop cultural self-awareness, intercultural empathy, and an understanding of the patterns of behavior and values of people from different cultural contexts - all skills necessary for working and succeeding in the 21st century.
GEOG 2800 Our Global Environment*: Introduction to global environmental issues, including the interaction of physical and social factors in the causes of and strategies for ameliorating environmental problems.
GEOG 3701 The Making of the Modern World*: The geographies of modernity and their formation: the world market, the global polity, diasporas and constructing difference, colonialism, the transformation of nature, Eurocentricity, post-modernity.
HISTORY 2001 Multiple Americas: US History from Colonialism to Reconstruction*: An introduction to the history of what would become the United States, from the Colonial period to Reconstruction, with an emphasis on race, gender and ethnicity. Topics include colonization, the dispossession and enslavement of African and Native peoples, gender roles, immigration, the conquest and settlement of the Southwest, and the events that moved America both toward and away from equality.
HISTORY 2702 Food in World History*: Survey of the history of food, drink, diet and nutrition in a global context.
HISTORY 3016 The Contemporary U.S. since 1963*: Advanced study U.S. political, economic, social, and cultural changes since 1963: political polarization; post-industrial economy/consumer economy; civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, Vietnam, detente, and globalization.
HISTORY 3105 History of Brazil: Known for its beaches, carnival, and soccer, Brazilian history is a far deeper story of colonialism, slavery, agricultural wealth, immigration, industrial development, political conflict over authoritarianism and democracy, and more. This course studies the history of precolonial Brazil to the present, with a focus on Brazilian citizenship and the challenges of creating a diverse and just society.
HISTORY 4125 Seminar in Latin American History: Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Latin American History.
HISTART 3562 Contemporary U.S. Latinx Art: This course provides an overview of contemporary Latinx Art in the United States from its origins in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement through today. U.S. Latinx Art refers to the artistic, visual, and creative production emerging from Latinx communities in the context of diaspora after immigration from Latin America.
HTHRHSC 4590 Global Health Inequalities: An Introductory Course*: The focus of this course is on recognizing health inequalities locally and beyond. Students will examine why communities in both the Global North and South do not have equitable access to high-quality health services and most importantly what can be done to promote equity.
HTHRHSC 4700 Global Aging*: Study of health and well-being of older adults in developed and developing countries and immigrant communities with the exploration of impact and requirements within the lived environment.
HUMNNTR 3415 Global Nutrition Issues*: Topics in global nutrition with critical appraisal of research basis and alternative viewpoints. Current issues include research and evaluation, major global nutrition issues (obesity, food insecurity, malnutrition, bioengineering, vegetarianism).
INTSTDS 2580 Feast or Famine: the Global Business of Food*: Global and regional trends in food consumption and production are surveyed. Trade, technological change, and other responses to food scarcity are analyzed.
INTSTDS 3850 Introduction to Globalization*: Analysis of globalization in its various aspects, economic, political, environmental and technological, as well as of its extent and desirability.
INTSTDS 4540 International Commerce and the World Economy*: Application of trade theory and policies to world trade that impacts global business.
INTSTDS 4850 Understanding the Global Information Society*: Invites students to think critically about the global networks that are shaping the new knowledge creation & sharing processes. To monitor news, investigate web resources & gather information for assignments, report & case study analysis.
INTSTDS 5640 Globalization and Latin America: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches: Explores current debates on globalization in Latin America and recent and interrelated transformations in the economies, politics, and cultures of the region.
LING 3603 Language Across Cultures*: Investigation of relationships between language and culture in different societies with a view to shedding light on cross-cultural similarities and differences
MUSIC 3340 Global Music Histories*: With a focus on developing skills in reading, writing, and information literacy, this course examines how peoples and their musics have interacted and developed through travel, migration, colonialism, and globalization.
NRSADVN 3430 Cultural Competence in Health Care: US and Global Contexts*: Introduction to the concepts and techniques for the provision of culturally competent care within the U.S. and across global contexts. Prereq: Enrollment in the RN to BSN program.
NURSING 3240 Population Health Local to Global*: Study of the concepts of community health nursing, global health issues, policies and strategies that positively influence health outcomes local to global across individuals, communities, populations.
NURSING 3430 Cultural Competence in Health Care: US and Global Contexts*: Introduction to concepts and techniques for the provision of culturally competent care within the U.S. and across global contexts
NURSING 4150 Epidemiology Concepts in Nursing and Global Healthcare*: Introduction to epidemiology concepts as applied in health, wellness, and global healthcare. Emphasis on clinical applications of concepts and innovation of healthcare systems. Includes overview and description on evidence-based epidemiologic applications in nursing and global health.
POLITSC 1300 Global Politics*: Cooperation and conflict in world politics. Covers basic theories of international relations and key issues, including security, political economy, international organizations, and the environment.
POLITSC 3460 Global Justice*: Examines the idea of justice between states and among the people of the world. What would a just world look like? How should we live in our unjust world? Current debates about war, the environment, diversity and poverty will be considered.
POLITSC 4330 Global Governance*: Examination of emergence and form of global governance, including questions of legitimation, democratization, and enforcement; as well as collective security, humanitarian intervention, and proliferation.
POLITSC 4332 Politics of Globalization*: Examines globalization's origins, impacts on human welfare, and political conflicts that arise from it, including actions of governments, multinational corporations, and the anti-globalization movement.
PORTGSE 2330 Introduction to Brazilian Culture: Integrated, multidisciplinary overview of modern Brazilian culture in terms of its visual, plastic, musical, literary, dramatic, and popular arts within socio-economic and political context.
PORTGSE 3191 - Internship & Career Exploration: Internship for academic credit under employer supervision, with enrollment and grade evaluation by a faculty sponsor and program coordinator in the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese. Student must obtain the internship and submit signed employer and department agreement prior to the start of the internship term. Enrollment in another academic department or college level internship course is not permitted during the same term.
PORTGSE 4606 - Portuguese for Business: Portuguese for Business is designed for students who want to practice Brazilian Portuguese in a business environment, understand cultural nuances of working in Brazil, and tackle key workplace themes such as teamwork, negotiations, interviews, presentations, and leadership. It is ideal for upcoming professionals in sectors like health, legal, government, environmental, travel, enterprise, trade, and public relations. Participants will learn sector-specific language, enhancing their cross-cultural communication abilities. The course incorporates a variety of learning methods, including discussions, writing exercises, presentations, listening tasks, and cross-cultural analysis.
PORTGSE 5650 Studies in Literatures and Cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking World: Intensive exploration of a specific topic or problem; topic varies, for example: modern Brazilian novel, Luso-African literature, Portuguese poetry since 1974.
PUBHEHS 3310 Current Issues in Global Environmental Health*: Fundamental concepts and principles of environmental health are presented through a critical review and discussion of current issues in global environmental health.
PUBHHMP 3610 United States & International Health Care*: Introduction to the history, organization and politics of the global health care system, critical review of selected issues using different analytic frameworks.
PUBHLTH 2010 Critical Issues in Global Public Health*: Public health concepts examining the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, and results of public health practices domestically and internationally. Presents the pressing global public health concerns of the 21st century.
SOCIOL 3200 Sociology of Immigration*: Provides a sociological understanding of contemporary migration both globally and with a particular focus on the U.S. The course will examine why migration occurs; how it is sustained over time; and how immigrants are incorporated into the host society. Social relations as central to understanding immigration will be a focus of the course.
SOCIOL 3380 Racial and Ethnic Relations in America*: Historical and contemporary study of race and ethnicity in the U.S. with a focus on relations within and between groups.
SOCIOL 3597.01 World Problems in Global Context*: Sociological analysis of contemporary world societies - non-industrialized, industrializing, and industrialized - with special attention to major social institutions and patterns of social change.
SOCIOL 3597.02 World Population Problems*: General introduction to population studies, emphasizing how population growth and structure have caused or aggravated social problems in various countries.
SOCIOL 5525 Global Criminology*: Provides students an introduction to global crime from a criminal justice perspective.
SOCWORK 5004 International Social Work*: Examines a variety of social issues through a global perspective in order to fully appreciate the role of culturally diverse and country-specific responses to social problems.
SOCWORK 5005 Human Trafficking: Domestic and Global Perspectives*: Provides a comprehensive understanding of domestic and global human trafficking by examining the causes and economics of human trafficking from a social work perspective.
SPANISH 2330 Reinventing America: Introduction to visual and verbal representation of Latin American multi-ethnic cultures through literature and visual arts; emphasis on construction of American identities and nations.
SPANISH 2381 Race, Ethnicity & Gender in Spanish Speaking Film & TV: This course will examine how cinema and television in Latin America, the US, and Spain reflect issues of race, ethnicity, and gender and reveal social attitudes and prejudices.
SPANISH 4542 Taco Planet: Food, Sustainability & Latin(x) American Cultures: Examines the history, policies, visual representations, culinary techniques, and literatures that bring together Latin(x) American identity, expressive cultures, and culinary practices. Students will visit local businesses and complete instructional kitchen class gatherings to inventory how they can contribute to more sustainable and ethical consumer choices.
SPANISH 4556 Modern Spanish American Literatures: This course includes a modern and contemporary panorama of Spanish American Literatures from Modernism in the 1880s to Present. It studies the formation of the canon and subsequent questionings and revisions, including the Avant-garde, the Fantastic, Magic Realism, Testimonial, & Postmodernism, through a diverse array of genres such as poetry, essay, short stories, drama, testimonial, or short novel.
SPANISH 4565H Latin American Indigenous Literatures and Cultures: Introduction to continuities and transformations that link Latin American colonial indigenous texts with contemporary cultural expression.
SPANISH 5660 Seminar in Latin American Literatures and Cultures: Intensive study of a major theme, author, literary or cultural problem related to Latin America.
WGSST 4403 Gender, Race & Leadership*: This course explores citizenship and leadership by analyzing case studies of leadership from women and people of color throughout American history. Using both activist and scholarly perspectives, students will explore and challenge modes of leadership through the intersectional lens of race and gender, with an emphasis on the role of citizens and citizenship in what it means to be a leader.
WGSST 4921 Intersections: Approaches to Theorizing Difference*: Examines intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender diversity in various sites within American culture (e.g., legal system, civil rights discourse, social justice movements).
Graduate
AFAMAST 5240 Race and Public Policy in the United States*: This course explores Race and Public Policy in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. In particular, the class is designed to look at the long list of "hot topics" in the current policy landscape, including policing, housing, wealth gap, immigration, voting, political representation, and others.
AFAMAST 8850 Consumer Culture, Race and Modernity*: Acquaints students with critical theoretical perspectives on the social and cultural history of consumer culture in the West, linking it to the rise of capitalism, industrialization, imperial and neo-liberal globalization.
ANTHROP 5701 Health and Healing in Latin America and the Caribbean: A biocultural examination of traditional and western healing practices and health disparities across the Latin American region. This course considers diverse perspectives on disease causality and prevention including shamanism, ethnophysiology, and ethnobotany.
EDUTL 7364 Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: Focus on educational and interdisciplinary research concerned with selecting, analyzing, and discussing diverse children's and YA literature, created by historically marginalized authors and illustrators. Literature selections include the life experiences, histories, and fantastic visions representing LGBTQ, Native American, African American, Latinx, Asian American, and new immigrant experiences.
ENR 5268 Soils and Climate Change*: This course is designed for students interested in learning basic soil and geologic processes as they impact climate change and are impacted by it. Topics covered include soil processes, abrupt climate change, trace gases and their properties, global C cycle, gaseous emissions, C-neutral fuels, carbon sequestration, Kyoto Treaty, and trading of C credits.
ESSPED 5777 Anti-racist, Culturally Responsive Education: Theories, Models, and Strategies*: This course focuses on cultural diversity/differences and the ways in which culture (related extensively to race and ethnicity) has been and continues to be defined and addressed in the American educational system (P-12 primarily, with attention to higher education). The fundamental course focus is the achievement gap (which has many other names, such as expectation and opportunity gap).
HISTORY 7650 Studies in World History*: Analysis of seminal works and concepts in the development of global-scaled integrative approaches to world history.
HTHRHSC 6700 Global Aging: Study of health and well-being of older adults in developed and developing countries and immigrant communities in the United States.
HUMNNTR 7804 Advanced Nutrition in a Global Community: Discussion of the major or emerging global nutrition issues across various populations. The course explores intervention approaches and global action toward these issues.
LARCH 7940 Design Studio IV: Global Issues: Advanced graduate landscape architectural research, design and planning synthesizing diverse scales, with an emphasis on international and interdisciplinary engagement.
PUBAFRS 5610 Innovation, Policy, and the Global Economy: This course examines frameworks and theories of public administration, governance, and policy for science and engineering at the international level. It will will critique existing theories of global knowledge development and transfer, governance, and trade through the lens of science and engineering.
SLAVIC 5450 Global Human Trafficking: Realities and Representations*: This course will introduce students to the development of human trafficking as it has been understood and represented by governments, policymakers, the media, and popular culture. The objective of this course is to scrutinize common understandings and representations of trafficking and to consider the advantages and disadvantages of such understandings and representations.
SOCIOL 5450 Sociology of Global Health and Illness*: Sociological study of health and illness from a global perspective. Topics include health, illness, and related behaviors; disease processes, correlates of diseases, global efforts to improve health, and comparative health care systems.
SOCWORK 5030 Global Social Work Perspectives on Poverty and Inequality*: This course examines the nature and dimensions of poverty and inequality in the U.S. and across the world, considers individual and social consequences of poverty, and examines historic and contemporary approaches to ameliorating poverty including review of major poverty and social welfare policy and programs. Focuses on helping students understand why poverty matters to social workers.
SPANISH 5640 Globalization and Latin America: Multi-disciplinary Approaches: Explores current debates on globalization in Latin America and recent and interrelated transformations in the economies, politics, and cultures of the region.
SPANISH 8570 Seminar in Modern Latin American Literatures and Cultures: Detailed exploration of advanced issues in Latin American literatures and cultures of the modern period from approximately 1880 to 1950.
SPANISH 8800 Seminar in Literary and Cultural Theory: Intensive study of special topics in literary and/or cultural theory with attention to their relationship to Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures.