HSI-Honors

Instructor:  Rafael Barceló-Durazo

Societies are intricate organisms we make part of, but our individual experiences model how to understand everything about them. To define our self, the other needs to be outlined and social narratives will handle most human interactions. This Seminar will offer a historical, sociological, and political account of migrations and integration in contemporary societies, with a succinct analysis of the legal framework and policies that regulate them.

Instructor: Andrea Romero

Bicultural and bilingual approaches to psychology derived from indigenous Mexican worldviews to promote resilience in the face of challenges, overcoming societal oppressions, and creating healthy communities. This course discusses psychology from a borderlands perspective that is rooted in being socially just, inclusive and situated within a global context.

Instructor: Nadia Alvarez Mexia

Expand your perspective and voice, and explore the multicultural intersectionality of different nations and individuals and watch your horizons broaden. This course is being taught entirely in Spanish.

Instructor: Jessica Retis

This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of communication, media, and language policies, as well as the complex linguistic networks and currents that underpin our post-digital society, and Latinx cultural politics and practices. Surveying the origins, current trends, and future scenarios of bilingual spaces in the United States, the course introduces the main developments in critical language studies and Latinx communication and media scholarships. Students will examine the diverse linguistic contexts in their future professional careers and discuss their role in contemporary society. 

Instructor: Beatriz Urrea

Throughout its history, Latin America has witnessed a conflict of social, cultural and political differences. The challenges of defining Latin America have been arduous and at times difficult. Each academic discipline has taken a narrow prospective view of what is Latin America. Therefore, this class Introduces students to the concept and origins of popular culture and to social theories used to analyze its impact on self, culture in modern consumer societies and national and regional images of identity. Students will focus on understanding the history, politics, cultural, and social reality changes in Latin America.

Instructor: Joel Muraco

This course provides a synthesis of our understanding of men in their role as fathers in families from biological and cultural perspectives. The biological perspective explores the evolutionary history and adaptive dimensions of human fatherhood, including comparisons with forms of parenting and family life in other primate species, male life history strategies, and the contributions of genetic, developmental, physiological and ecological factors to fatherhood. The cultural perspective examines the ways in which fatherhood, marriage, and families vary across cultures, in relation to differences in social traditions and practices, socio-political systems, and modes of subsistence. The synthesis of these two perspectives consists of understanding socio-cultural variability in human paternal behavior in the context of human evolutionary adaptations to past and ongoing social and ecological pressures. Through in-class group activities and homework assignments students will apply current theories and data concerning fatherhood to their own lives, and will pursue their implications for society at large.

Instructor: Jennie McStotts

This interdisciplinary course explores multiple perspectives on the humanities related to a specific location - Tucson.  The course combines academic analysis with a community perspective.   UA professors and members of the community present each week on a particular topic in order to provide an interdisciplinary view and multiple analytical perspectives.  Students will be assigned reading for each unit and will engage in active fieldwork and critical writing in response to materials presented. Excursions are important to the work of the course. Frequent group discussions facilitated by the instructor ensure that students make connections between and among learning experiences in the class.  The instructor provides an overarching context and critical methodology for thinking about the materials presented.

Instructor: Kristin Doran

Instructor: Faith Harden