LACS 017 A-Z - (CC, IS) The Caribbean ExperienceSemester Hours: 3
This is a special topics course designed to immerse students in the social, political, economic, historical, cultural, religious, artistic, or diasporic experiences of peoples, communities, and countries in the region. Taught from a multidisciplinary perspective, each time it is offered, the course will have a new, fresh focus and coverage, while always engaging with issues of race, gender, class, nation, and sovereignty.
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LACS 017A - (CC,IS) The Caribbean Experience
Looking to the many abyssal histories of the Caribbean, this course will explore major issues that have shaped Caribbean literature: colonialism, indigeneity, iterations of enslavement, creolization, migration, diaspora, revolution, tropicality, and climate crisis. How do narratives of the Caribbean represent the collision of political forces and natural environments? How do island-writers evoke gender and a poetics of relation that exceeds tourist desire and forceful extraction? How do island-writers reconcile (mis)representations of tropicality and address the existential threats of rising sea levels and increasing temperatures? During our readings, we will be attentive to the Caribbean as a space of first colonial contact, as a place where the plantation system reigned, as the site of the first successful slave revolt (Haiti), and how these past legacies haunt contemporary conditions across the Caribbean.
Same as AFST 168 , ENGL 168
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
As individual subjects are selected, each is assigned a letter (A-Z) and added to the course number. Any course may be taken a number of times so long as there is a different letter designation each time it is taken. Specific titles and course descriptions for special topics courses are available in the online class schedule.
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Summer Session I 2026
Summer Session II 2026
Summer Session III 2026
Fall 2026
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