LAST100, “Introduction to Latin American Studies,” will be back in September 2015. It will provide an overview of the culture and society of Latin America from ancient to contemporary times, and from Argentina to Mexico. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the region is constructed and represented, and to the cultural politics of race, gender, and class.
What’s more, the 2015 version of this class will be further enhanced thanks to a grant from UBC’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund. As we put it in our grant application, “This project reconfigures Latin American Studies 100, the core first-year gateway to students’ understanding of Latin America. Employing a blended learning approach incorporating technological resources (a web interface, blogs, video and audio lectures and podcasts) and flexible pedagogical processes (flipped classroom, student as producer, active learning), we will enrich student learning, increase capacity, attract new students to the major and minor, encourage interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and inter-institutional collaboration, and open the course up beyond UBC.”
So this is an exciting year to be taking LAST100. And over the summer we will be developing this space to build a series of online resources for anyone who wants to learn more about Latin America and Latin American Studies. UBC students: register now!