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 SOCY 44 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 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   Speculative Pasts: Latinx Fantasy 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

LATIN AMERICA AND CENTRAL AMERICA

  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   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 30.26     Social Movements in Latin America INT or SOC W

COMPARATIVE COURSES

  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 ANTH 34 Comparative Perspectives on the US-Mexican Borderlands SOC CI
LACS 40.03 LACS 45.02   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

SENIOR SEMINAR COURSES

  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