KU Language Across the Curriculum (KULAC)
KULAC courses of the Center of Latin American Studies are conducted entirely in Spanish and are offered in the fall and spring semesters. They are open to graduates and undergraduates. KULAC courses for the Fall 2009 semester include:

LAA 302/602 Politics & Sports of Latin America
Taught by Robert Rodriguez, Thursdays 5:30-8:20 p.m.
This is an interdisciplinary course taught entirely in Spanish that will encompass a wide range of issues related to the intersection between sports and politics in Latin America . The course will focus on the sports that permeate Latin American societies while placing specific attention to political, social, historical and cultural issues within specific sub-regions and nation-states. Each class session will include discussions on the methodologies of creating sports-related academic research. This emphasis will be of particular benefit to graduate students and undergraduates considering attending graduate school. All of the assigned readings for this course are taken from academic publications. Prerequisites: Intermediate-Advanced Level of Spanish and LAA 100 ( Latin American Studies ); or Political Science 150 (Intro to Comparative Politics); or A course concerning Latin America ; or Instructor's permission.

LAA 302/602 Women & Globalization in Latin America
Taught by Laura Herlilhy, Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00-5:15 p.m.
This course, taught entirely in Spanish, will focus on the positive and negative effects that globalization has had on Latin American women, including mestiza, indigenous, and Afro-descendant women. We will focus on the way that neoliberal economic forces and the globalization of production--driven by consumption--has had a mostly negative impact on women, including the feminization of the work force (with women in the low-paid sector) and the feminization of poverty. We will also focus on how global communication systems have helped women develop transnational networks to further their struggle and activism. Other themes to be discussed include domestic violence, indigenous and ethnic mobilization, militarization, feminism, human-trafficking, immigration, and sex work. We will read theoretical articles from feminist perspectives that view women's status through the lenses of human rights and structural violence. The course will be conducted as a seminar and readings will include books in English and articles in Spanish. Students will leave the course with an understanding of how Latin American women's everyday lives and gendered identities are constructed between the interstices of local cultural practices, international politics, and global economic forces. For the undergraduate and graduate students taking the course at the 602 level, a semester research project/paper is required. The research project/paper will record life histories of women migrants from Mexico living and working in Lawrence , Kansas .

To enroll in these classes a permission number is needed. Please call the front desk if you would like to enroll, (785) 864-4213