New LACS Courses Numbers

Get familiarized with the new LACS Course Numbers

From summer term 2025 on we will not longer use LATS course numbers and all our courses will fall under the LACS denomination. We will still count old LATS course numbers towards our major and minor

Please let us know if you have any questions!

NEW LACS COURSE NUMBERS LIST

SURVEY COURSES

 

  SURVEY COURSES - Intros: LACS 01-09
  New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 1 LACS 1   Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean SOC NW
LACS 2 LATS 5   Complexities of Latino Identity SOC W
LACS 3 LATS 3   Introduction to Latino Studies SOC CI
LACS 4 LACS 4 AAAS 16 History, Culture and Society: The Many Faces of Latin America LIT NW

NORTH AMERICA (Latinx, Mexico) + THE CARIBBEAN - LACS 20S

 

  LACS COURSES on North America (Latinx, Mexico)/Caribbean - LACS 20s
  New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 20.01 LATS 20 HIST 31.01 Latina/o Social Movements SOC WC
LACS 20.02 LACS 23.61 HIST 31.03 Migrant Los Angeles SOC CI
LACS 20.03 LACS 20.10 ARTH 40.04 Mexicanidad: Race/Raza, (trans)Nation, and Mexican(o/a/x) Cultural Identity ART CI
LACS 20.04 LACS 48 ARTH 63.01 Mexican Muralism ART CI
LACS 20.05 LACS 24 FILM 42.14 Mexican Cinema ART NW
LACS 20.06 LACS 24.25 FILM 44.14 Making Video Essays ART CI
LACS 20.07 LACS 24.30 FILM 47.29; THEA 10.27 Latinx Stage & Screen SOC NW
LACS 20.08 LACS 24.50 FILM 41.18 Latinx-ploitation ART NW
LACS 20.09 LACS 22.12 ENGL 53.58 Reading Romantasy LIT CI
LACS 20.10 LACS 22.11   Fighting With Your Mother: What generational conflict in Latinx Literature can teach us LIT CI
LACS 20.12 LATS 11   Performing Activism in the Américas ART  
LACS 20.13 LATS 37   Migrant Lives and Labor in the Upper Valley: Latinx Studies for Community Engagement SOC W
LACS 20.14 LATS 41   Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts ART  
LACS 20.15 LACS 76 HIST 087 Culture and Identity in Modern Mexico SOC NW
LACS 20.16 LATS 44 ANTH 12.19; SOCY 043 Crossing Over: Latino Roots and Transitions SOC CI
LACS 20.17 LATS 12 ARTH 40.05 Print the Revolution: Latinx Art and Activism ART CI
LACS 20.18     Divas, Lovers, and Sissies LIT CI

CROSS-LISTED COURSES on North America (Latinx, Mexico)/Caribbean - LACS 25s

 

  New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 25.01 LATS 25 *FILM 47.24; AAAS 32.01, Race and Gender in American Film ART W
LACS 25.02 LACS 24.70 *THEA 25 Solo Performance ART  
LACS 25.03 LACS 25.12 *THEA 10.68 Staging Rebellion. Dissidence in Latinx American Theatre ART NW
LACS 25.04 LACS 40.10 *HIST 31.02 Migrant Nation: Immigration and Racialization in the Making of the United States SOC CI
LACS 25.05 LACS 42.10 *HIST 41.02, AAAS 62.75 Race, Gender, & Revolution in the Atlantic World SOC NW
LACS 25.07 LACS 58 *AAAS 60, HIST 92.03 Slavery and Emancipation in Latin America and the Caribbean INT or SOC NW
LACS 25.08 LACS 38 *ANTH 33; AAAS 83.08 The Global Caribbean SOC NW
LACS 25.09 LACS 39 *AAAS 61.05; HIST 92.07 Haiti and American Empire: History of Revolutions and Authoritarianism Black  SOC NW
LACS 25.10 LACS 59 *AAAS 061, HIST 92.01 Caribbean History: 1898 to the present INT or SOC NW
LACS 25.11 LACS 54 *AAAS 062; HIST 92.02 Nationalism and Revolution in the Caribbean INT or SOC NW
LACS 25.13 LACS 31.51 *COLT 52.09, AAAS 83.10 Childhood, Memory, and the Caribbean INT LIT
LACS 25.14 LATS 40 *SOCY 48 Immigration, Race and Ethnicity SOC CI
LACS 25.15 LACS 36 *WGSS 30.05 Maid in America: The Politics of Domestic Labor ART CI
LACS 25.16 LATS 30.01 *WGSS 30.05 Latinx Performance ART or INT CI

LATIN AMERICA AND CENTRAL AMERICA - LACS 30S

 

  LACS COURSES on Latin America and Central America- LACS 30s
  New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 30.01 LACS 8   Politics&Culture in Transnational Central America SOC NW
LACS 30.02 LACS 20.11 ARTH 40.03 Art and Politics in Modern Latin America ART CI
LACS 30.03 LACS 50.11 GOVT 84.35 Latin America and the U.S.: The Dynamics of Foreign Policy INT W
LACS 30.04 LACS 44.10   Black Culture and Politics in Brazil INT or SOC CI
LACS 30.05 LACS 50.17   Land, Belonging, and Social Change in Latin America INT or SOC NW
LACS 30.07 LACS 83.50 GOVT 84.38 Trading Places: How Chile Passed Argentina on the Road to Development INT or SOC NW
LACS 30.08 LACS 30.08 FILM 42.24 Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Brazilian Film INT CI
LACS 30.10 LACS 30.17   Brazil: History, Power, and Narrative INT NW
LACS 30.13 LACS 50.07 GOVT 40.14 Latin America's Search for Democracy and Development INT NW
LACS 30.14 LACS 50.08 GOVT 40.15 Commodities, Globalization, and Development in Latin America INT NW
LACS 30.15 LACS 30.15   Media and the Activist Amazon SOC NW
LACS 30.16 LACS 50.09 GOVT 20.05 Revolution, Reform and Reaction: The Cold War in Latin America INT NW
LACS 30.21     History of Cuba INT WC
LACS 30.22   GEOG 40.07 Latin America and the Invention of Nature SOC NW
LACS  30.23     Ethnography and Research Design INT or SOC W
LACS 30.24     Asiantowns across the Americas NT or SOC CI
LACS 30.26     Social Movements in Latin America INT or SOC W

CROSS-LISTED COURSES on Latin America and Central America - LACS 35s

 

  New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 35.01 LACS 30.06 *COLT 52.02;FILM 42.03; INTS 17.12 New Latin American Cinema INT  
LACS 35.02 LACS 30.11 *PORT 35.01; AAAS 86.04 Social, Political, and Cultural Trends in Contemporary Brazil SOC NW
LACS 35.03 LACS 30.60 *PORT 35.02 Brazil: History, Culture, Politics and Systemic Racism INT or SOC NW
LACS 35.04 LACS 30.61 *PORT 37.01 Caring for the City: Activism, Diversity and resistance in Sao Paulo, Brazil INT or SOC CI
LACS 35.05 LACS 30.62 *PORT 70.01 Experiencing Brazil: Research in a Study Abroad Context INT or SOC CI
LACS 35.06 LACS 44.40 *COLT 52.05 On Survivors, Memories, and Tombs: State Violence in South America through Literature and Cinema LIT NW
LACS 35.07 LACS 30.12 *ENGL 63.04, WGSS 52.04 Arts Against Empire: Fictions of Revolution and Solidarity in the Americas INT or LIT W
LACS 35.08 LACS 30.13 *COLT 52.04 The Tropical Fantastic: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Brazilian Literature and Film LIT NW
LACS 35.09 LACS 46.60 *HIST 82.04 Transnational Utopias: Latin American Anarchisms TMV NW
LACS 35.10 LACS 47 *HIST 83 Twentieth-Century Latin America SOC NW
LACS 35.11 LACS 50.13 *HIST 080 The History of Capitalism in Latin America SOC  
LACS 35.12 LACS 52 *GOVT 49.04; WGSS 31.01 Sex and the State in Latin America SOC NW
LACS 35.13 LACS 53 *GOVT 49.05 Protest and Parties in Latin America INT or SOC NW
LACS 35.15   *MUS 3.09 Mestizaje: Music in Latin America ART CI
LACS 35.17   *COLT 70.08 / SPAN 65.17 / FILM 48.08 Media
and
Environment
ART  

COMPARATIVE COURSES - LACS 40S

 

  LACS COMPARATIVE COURSES - LACS 40s
  New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 40.01 LATS 8 HIST 08.06 Food History SOC W
LACS 40.02 LATS 45   Comparative Perspectives on the US-Mexican Borderlands SOC CI
LACS 40.03 LACS 45.02 PBPL 27.02 Comparative Borderlands in the Americas INT or SOC CI
LACS 40.04 LACS 9 WGSS 3 Global Race x Global Migration INT or SOC CI
LACS 40.05     Sports in the Americas INT or SOC CI

CROSS-LISTED COMPARATIVE COURSES - LACS 45s

 

  New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 45.01 LACS 41.20 *ENGL 53.32, COLT 52.08 Literature and Culture of the Americas INT or LIT W
LACS 45.03 LACS 44.80 *SPAN 50.06, WGSS 66.32 Framing Ecology and Gender ART NW
LACS 45.04 LACS 50.18 *COLT 40.08; FILM 47.31 Sounding Out Power and Dissent INT  

SENIOR SEMINAR COURSES - LACS 80S

 

  SENIOR SEMINAR - LACS 80s
  New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 80.01 LACS 80.60 HIST 96.04 Ethnic Los Angeles SOC CI
LACS 80.02 LACS 80.02 GOVT 84.06; AAAS 90.01 Identity and Power in the Americas INT W
LACS 80.03 LACS 80.03   Border Crossers ART CI
LACS 80.04 LACS 80.21 FILM 47.35 Rita Moreno: Identity, Performance, Stardom ART WC

INDEPENDENT STUDY

INDEPENDENT STUDY - LACS 89
New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 89     Independent Study    

HONORS PROJECTS

HONORS PROJECT LACS 98-99
New LACS # Old # Crosslist Course Title DIST WORLD CULTURE
LACS 98     Honors Thesis I    
LACS 99     Honors Thesis II