Fall 2024 NYU Consortium Classes
Last Updated: July 1, 2024
Courses are subject to changes and cancellations. For a PDF version of the courses with descriptions, please click here.
Through the New York City Consortium for Latin American Studies, master's students from New York University and Columbia are allowed to take pre-approved courses each semester. These courses below are approved by the Institute of Latin American Studies for SIPA and MARSLAC students to cross-register in FALL 2024. These courses must be registered via a form on the first day of the class. Please see your instructor and follow the instructions on the registration form. Note that fall semester classes at NYU will start on Tuesday, September 3 and end on Thursday, December 12, 2024.
Approved Consortium Classes at NYU
LATC-GA 2531-001: U.S. - Latin American Relations: WWII to the Present
Instructor: Jorge Castaneda
Date/time: Monday, 2:00pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Silver Building, Room 409
This course seeks to analyze the dynamics and issues that describe the relations between the United States and Latin America since the end of World War II. A complete picture of the current state of affairs in the hemisphere and the reasons that led to it require an analysis in three different – but related – dimensions. To cover the first one, the course analyzes historical benchmarks that contextualize particular overt American interventions in the region, dissecting its causes, operation and consequences. In a second dimension, the course looks at topics that have permeated the relationship between the United States and Latin America over this period. Because of their typically cross-national nature, they illustrate a different set of dynamics and concerns that have fueled tensions in the relationship. A third and final dimension concerns recent developments in Latin America that affect and have been affected by U.S. foreign policy. Their novelty suggests that these issues will remain relevant at least in the immediate future.
LATC-GA 2537-002 – Feminisms from the South
Date/Time: Tuesday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Instructor: Djamila Ribeiro
This seminar calls upon Lélia Gonzalez's concept of Améfrica in order to identify its role as an intellectual category in thinking through new civilizatory frameworks. We will discuss the work of theorists from Brazil, the Caribbean, and South and Central America, where women writers of the Global South struggle to amplify their work in the face of a colonial politics of translation that exports critical work from the North to the South according to a primarily uni-directional model. By elevating the visibility of some of these contributions, this seminar proposes a dialogue between Feminisms. The course will be conducted in English with readings in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
LACTC-GA – 2965-001 – Elementary Haitian Creole I
Day/Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12:30pm – 1:45pm
Prof. Wynnie Lamour
Location:
These courses introduce students to the language of Haitian Kreyòl, also called Creole, and is
intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of the language. Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by Haiti’s population of nine million and by about one million Haitians in the U.S. Including over 190,000 in the New York City area. In fact, New York City has the second largest population of Kreyòl Speakers after Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Through this course, you will develop introductory speaking, reading, and writing skills. We use a communicative approach, balanced with grammatical and phonetic techniques. Classroom and textbook materials are
complemented by work with film, radio, and especially music (konpa, rasin, twoubadou, rap, raga, levanjil, vodou tradisyonèl, etc.), as well as with resources from city museums and institutions related to Haiti.
LACTC-GA – 2965 – 002 – Intermediate Haitian Creole I
Day/Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00am – 12:15 pm
Prof. Wynnie Lamour
Location:
These courses introduce students to the language of Haitian Kreyòl, also called Creole, and is
intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of the language. Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by Haiti’s population of nine million and by about one million Haitians in the U.S. Including over 190,000 in the New York City area. In fact, New York City has the second largest population of Kreyòl Speakers after Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Through this course, you will develop introductory speaking, reading, and writing skills. We use a communicative approach, balanced with grammatical and phonetic techniques. Classroom and textbook materials are
complemented by work with film, radio, and especially music (konpa, rasin, twoubadou, rap, raga, levanjil, vodou tradisyonèl, etc.), as well as with resources from city museums and institutions related to Haiti.
LACTC-GA 10-001 - Elementary Quechua I
Day/Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:30am – 10:45am
Prof. Odi Gonzales
Location: TDB
Quechua is the most important and most widely distributed indigenous language in South America, with about 10 million speakers living from the high mountains to the tropical lowlands in Colombia (where the language is called Ingano), Ecuador (where it is called kichwa or runa shimi, "human speech"), Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina (where it is usually spelled Quechua and called, by its speakers, runa simi). Studying Quechua opens a window onto alternative ways of thinking about social worlds, about space and time, family, and humans' relationship with the natural world. Quechua is recommended for students anticipating travel to the Andean region, those interested in language and linguistics, and those interested in indigenous literatures and cultures. Students who satisfactorily complete introductory Quechua will be well-prepared for intensive summer study at one of many summer study abroad programs in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia that will put them in closer contact with the indigenous world.
LATC-GA 20-001 - Intermediate Quechua I
Day/Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Prof. Odi Gonzales Location: Rubin Hall, Room 109
Quechua is the most important and most widely distributed indigenous language in South America, with about 10 million speakers living from the high mountains to the tropical lowlands in Colombia (where the language is called Ingano), Ecuador (where it is called kichwa or runa shimi, "human speech"), Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina (where it is usually spelled Quechua and called, by its speakers, runa simi). Studying Quechua opens a window onto alternative ways of thinking about social worlds, about space and time, family, and humans' relationship with the natural world. Quechua is recommended for students anticipating travel to the Andean region, those interested in language and linguistics, and those interested in indigenous literatures and cultures. Students who satisfactorily complete introductory Quechua will be well-prepared for intensive summer study at one of many summer study abroad programs in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia that will put them in closer contact with the indigenous world.
How to Register
- Read the detailed list of approved courses and select a course.
- Contact Eliza Kwon-Ahn at ILAS with any questions on Columbia administrative matters.
- If necessary, contact the CLACS Office at NYU for instructions on completing administrative matters there:
Dylon Robbins, Director
NYU/CLACS
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC)
53 Washington Square South, Floor 4W
212-998-8687 - Download and print the CU-NYU Cross Registration Form.
- Complete and sign the form.
- Please obtain a call number for CU registration
Important Details
- You will need to attend the first day of the class at NYU to obtain all the requirements.
- The fall 2024 semester at NYU will start on Tuesday, September 5
- The ILAS-CLACS consortium agreement is only for students in MARSLAC and SIPA program. Students in other programs at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are not eligible to register for these courses. Students at other schools must consult their school policies.