Caribbean Courses
The Center for Caribbean Studies is interested in highlighting scholarship and teaching related to building critical understandings of the Greater Caribbean Region throughout a range of departments at Trinity.
最近和现任的中心联合主任教授人类学、历史和音乐课程.
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对波多黎各的理解
Instructor(s): Guzman, Amanda
Distribution Requirement: 符合社会科学和全球要求
Course Description: An island uniquely characterized by a liminal political status and a dominant stateside diaspora, the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has been the subject of renewed national attention in the wake of the devastating 2017 Hurricane María and the 2019 “Verano Boricua” which saw the ousting of the governor, Ricardo Rosselló. This course interrogates Puerto Rican culture on its own terms – shifting from traditional definitions of identity formation to contemporary critiques centering historically marginalized communities amidst ongoing climate and economic precarity. 学生将动手分析各种(非)物质文化产品, 起源于岛上和美国的侨民. 学生们将与波多黎各文化工作者一起发展新的文化, 对岛屿文化遗产及其未来的批判性理解.
ANTH-241-01-加勒比妇女
Instructor(s): DiVietro, Susan
Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement
Course Description本课程探讨加勒比地区妇女的多样化生活. We will begin with feminist theories of women and power and trace how those understandings have emerged and changed over time. We will use ethnographies to examine women’s lives in both historical and contemporary Caribbean settings and explore major theoretical approaches in feminist and Caribbean anthropology. 我们将分析女性的经历是如何被多种力量塑造的, including slavery and emancipation, 生育能力和母性的建构, gender and violence, race and identity, tourism and sex work, illness and poverty, globalization, and labor.
FYSM 165-01-故事地图殖民
Instructor(s): Wade, Maurice.
Distribution Requirement: 满足第一年的研讨会要求
Course Description: 当前的故事映射程序使人们能够构建结合文本的数字叙事, images, video, charts, graphs, etc. 本次研讨会的重点是加勒比地区殖民主义的故事映射. 学生将首先熟悉加勒比地区殖民主义的一般历史. Students will then, individually or in teams, focus on a particular Caribbean society with the aim of constructing related story maps narrating the relevant history of European colonization of that society. The seminar does not require any prior experience with story mapping utilities or any prior study of colonialism or the Caribbean.
FYSM-145-01-波多黎各和加勒比地区
Instructor(s): Delano, Pablo
Distribution Requirement: 满足第一年的研讨会要求
Course Description本课程提供了构成加勒比社会的复杂性和细微差别的基础, with a special focus on Puerto Rico and its unique status as an unincorporated territory of the United States. 我们将通过历史的镜头来看待波多黎各和加勒比地区, cultural production, and scientific advancement. We will challenge established stereotypes about the Caribbean and gain understandings of the present-day Caribbean and its diaspora. 我们将审议将大加勒比区域联系在一起的共同之处. 课程将包括演讲嘉宾和实践工作坊. 该课程将与加勒比研究中心合作教授.
了解拉丁美洲 & the Caribbean
Instructor(s): Euraque, Dario
Distribution Requirement:符合人文和全球要求
Course Description: This interdisciplinary course explores major historical themes and contemporary cultural and political topics related to Latin American and Caribbean societies and cultures. The goal is to give students a panoramic view of Latin America and the Caribbean and to introduce them to various issues that are explored more deeply in upper-division courses. 我们将讨论人口和地理问题, 基本的历史时期和进程, 特别的人类学和文化辩论, 基本的政治和性别问题, 日常生活的社会学方法, aesthetic and literary movements, 以及这些地区在历史和当代世界经济中的地位.
HISP-280-01- Hispanic Hartford
Instructor(s): Aponte-Aviles, Aidali
Distribution Requirement: 符合人文和全球要求
Course Description: This course seeks to place Trinity students in active and informed dialogue with the Hartford region’s large and diverse set of Spanish-speaking communities. 本课程将帮助学生认识和分析不同的民族历史.g. Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Chilean, Honduran, Cuban, Colombian, and Mexican) which have contributed to the Hispanic diaspora in the city and the entire northeastern region of the United States. Students will undertake field projects designed to look at the effects of transnational migration on urban culture, institution-building, and identity formation.
MUSC-111-01- Samba Ensemble
Instructor(s): Galm, Eric
Distribution Requirement:符合艺术和全球要求
Course Description重点是对巴西桑巴击鼓传统的学习和表现. 相关的音乐风格和音乐流派也包括在内. 以前的性能经验是不需要的, 学生可以选修这门课程超过一个学期. 经导师许可成为会员. 也列在国际研究-拉丁美洲和加勒比.
文学，电影，音乐西班牙加勒比海
Instructor(s): Melendez, Priscilla
Distribution Requirement: 符合人文和全球要求
Course Description: Through the study of film, literary works, 和西班牙加勒比海地区(古巴)的音乐, Dominican Republic, 波多黎各)，这门课程探讨了植根于反对奴隶制斗争的主要政治概念, 种族主义和殖民主义给加勒比地区带来了认同感. The course (conducted in Spanish) analyzes this region’s artistic production from the early part of the twentieth century to the present helping students understand the cultural, social, and political challenges, setbacks, and triumphs of the Hispanic Caribbean connecting its complex realities with the experience of populations of Caribbean origin in Hartford, CT.
HIST-238-01- Caribbean History
Instructor(s): Euraque, Dario
Distribution Requirement:符合人文和全球要求
Course Description: 第一次相遇的地点, conquest, 以及欧洲人对美洲原住民的殖民统治, 加勒比地区成为欧洲列强之间激烈竞争的中心, and later in the 20th century a new, 这里是美国帝国主义攻势的首演地点. The Caribbean’s strategic location in relation to Atlantic Ocean trade routes and its tropical climate and fertile soils were key factors in shaping these imperial rivalries and the colonial and postcolonial societies that emerged in the region. 本课程将向学生介绍这些和加勒比历史的其他方面, from the pre-European era, 经历了史诗般的海地革命(1791-1804)和1959年的古巴革命, to the present.
HIST-256-01-拉丁美洲的人权 & the Caribbean
Instructor(s): Euraque, Dario
Distribution Requirement: 符合人文和全球要求
Course Description: In the 1970s and 1980s, 数千人“失踪”,“在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区被折磨和谋杀, 主要是军事政权和准军事敢死队所为. The period is often characterized as perhaps the lowest point in the modern abuse of “Human Rights” in the region. This course explores how these central notions and human rights have evolved in theory and in practice in the history of the Americas.
拉丁美洲文化1
Instructor(s): Melendez, Priscilla
Distribution Requirement:符合人文和全球要求
Course Description: This course examines the history, societies, 以及今天被称为拉丁美洲的各个地区的文化. 课程从主要的前哥伦布文明开始, 通过欧洲和这些民族的第一次相遇, 随后的征服和殖民, 以及对独立的渴望的最初表现. The course will concentrate specifically on how the peoples of these various regions and periods explored their social and political concerns through art, literature, and music.
拉丁美洲政治
Instructor(s): Fernandez Milmanda, Belen
Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement
Course Description: 这门课程考察政治发展的过程, 二十世纪和十九世纪发生在拉丁美洲的经济和社会变革. 主题包括:民粹主义的兴起和进口替代的工业化, 革命和革命运动, 军事统治的原因和后果, the politics of economic reform, democratic transitions, the commodity boom, and the left turn. For each topic we will review classic political science theories and critically evaluate their applicability to Latin American countries. We will also discuss the lessons that can be drawn from Latin American cases for the study of these topics in the rest of the world.
URST-359-01- Latinx Urban Activism
Instructor(s): Cotto, Jr., Robert
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement
Course Description: We will examine the emergence and evolution of urban political activism by Latinas and Latinos in the United States from the early 1900s to the present. We will begin with the impact of U.帝国扩张与殖民主义(1848年至今), 然后追踪泛拉丁裔身份的出现以及拉丁裔之间的政治联盟, African Americans, and other ethnic groups. 主题包括以下城市政治表现:民权运动, labor, and student movements, 争取性别和性解放, immigration policies, citizenship, voting rights, electoral representation, cultural citizenship, urban renewal, gentrification, and “the right to the city.” This course explores various cities that had interaction of political activism with urban policy and planning to consider equitable alternatives in the past and present.
拉丁美洲的种族政治
Instructor(s): Salgado, Gabriel
Distribution Requirement: 符合社会科学和全球要求
Course Description: This course focuses on the major concepts which have shaped dominant understandings of race in Latin America throughout the 20th century: mestizaje, the interpretation of Latin American racial identity as one of mixture; indigenismo, the emphasis on indigeneity as constitutive of racial identity in Latin America; and racial democracy, the argument that higher rates of miscegenation in Latin America (particularly Brazil) reflected a history of harmonious race relations. In addition to these three concepts, we will survey current issues related to race in the region such as the production of new sets of rights for Indigenous peoples and movements for the recognition of Afro-Latin American peoples.
