Fall 2026

The Literature of Migration and the Migrant Experience in the Americas

Explores literature representing migration in the US and Americas, using historical and psychoanalytic approaches to analyze the migrant experience.

offering recorded3 credits

Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Beatriz L. Botero

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.83 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.54 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

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Course details

Credits3 credits

Typically offeredNot Applicable

Subjects

Integrated Liberal Studies, Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies

About this course

Explores literature to understand representations and experiences of migration within the United States, and in the Americas more broadly, over time and across cultures. Focusing on literature and employing historical and psychoanalytic interpretive approaches, critically analyze artistic and literary representations of the migrant experience. Topics include: the relationships between literature, art, and migration; the role of migrants in constructing the United States; the role of art and literature in the empowerment of marginalized groups. Analyze literary texts in their contexts using tools of literary analysis and express ideas about literary texts and art from a critical perspective.

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Sophomore standing

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ILS/LACIS 367

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Professors

Fall 2026

Beatriz L. Botero

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.83 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.54 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

BEATRIZ BOTERO is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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Section	Mode	Enrolled / capacity	Waitlist
LEC 001	Classroom Instruction	16 / 25	3
LEC 001	Classroom Instruction	5 / 25	0

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.83 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.54 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

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Topics

Relationships between literature, art, and migration
Role of migrants in constructing the United States
Role of art and literature in empowering marginalized groups

Skills

Critical analysis of artistic and literary representations
Literary analysis using contextual tools
Critical expression of ideas on texts and art

Grades

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ILS/LACIS 367 · Fall 2026

The Literature of Migration and the Migrant Experience in the Americas

Recorded 2026-09-07

ILS/LACIS 367 · Fall 2026

The Literature of Migration and the Migrant Experience in the Americas

Recorded 2026-09-07

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