CSRE 11W:
Service-Learning Workshop on Issues of Education Equity (HISTORY 11W)
Introduces students to a variety of issues at stake in the public education of at-risk high school youth in California. Participants will hear from some of the leading faculty in the School of Education as well as the Departments of Psychology, Sociology, and others, who will share perspectives on the problems and challenges of educating a diverse student body in the state's public school system. The service-learning component of the workshop is a mentoring project (Stanford Students for Educational Equity) with junior class history students from East Palo Alto Academy High School, a Stanford charter school.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
CSRE 14N:
Growing Up Bilingual (CHICANST 14N, EDUC 114N)
This course is a Freshman Introductory Seminar that has as its purpose introducing students to the sociolinguistic study of bilingualism by focusing on bilingual communities in this country and on bilingual individuals who use two languages in their everyday lives. Much attention is given to the history, significance, and consequences of language contact in the United States. The course focuses on the experiences of long-term US minority populations as well as that of recent immigrants.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 15A:
IDA Integrative Seminar: Occupy Art - Immigration, Nation, and the Art of Occupation (AFRICAAM 15A, AMSTUD 15A, COMPLIT 36, ENGLISH 15A)
This course consists of film screenings, dialogues, and performances that engage critically with the theme of Occupation across contexts, exploring both the potential and limitations of the art of Occupation. Students will engage some of the most provocative artists, writers, and thinkers of our times to consider the purpose of the arts across diverse communities that engage Occupation in local, transnational and global perspective.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
CSRE 16N:
African Americans and Social Movements (AFRICAAM 16N, SOC 16N)
Theory and research on African Americans' roles in post-Civil Rights, US social movements. Topics include women¿s right, LGBT rights, environmental movement, and contemporary political conservativism.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
CSRE 28N:
The Cultural Shaping of Mental Health and Illness (PSYCH 28N)
This seminar examines how our cultural ideas and practices shape our conceptions,nperceptions, experiences, and treatment of emotional wellness and distress. We will read and discuss empirical research and case studies from psychology, anthropology, sociology, and medicine. Course requirements include weekly reading and thought papers, weekly discussion, and a final research project and presentation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 45Q:
Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society (SOC 45Q)
Preference to sophomores. Historical overview of race in America, race and violence, race and socioeconomic well-being, and the future of race relations in America. Enrollment limited to 16.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 51N:
Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity (AMSTUD 51N, COMPLIT 51N)
We may "know" "who" we "are," but we are, after all, social creatures. How does our sense of self interact with those around us? How does literature provide a particular medium for not only self expression, but also for meditations on what goes into the construction of "the Self"? After all, don't we tell stories in response to the question, "who are you"? Besides a list of nouns and names and attributes, we give our lives flesh and blood in telling how we process the world. Our course focuses in particular on this question--Does this universal issue ("who am I") become skewed differently when we add a qualifier before it, like "ethnic"?
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP, Writing 2
CSRE 55C:
Black Childhood in American Literature (AFRICAAM 55C)
This course will explore ways that the black child as a trope, a site, a body and a subject is represented in 20th Century American literature. With attention to the representation of black childhood in the novels, short fiction, and memoirs of Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Childress, and others, we will also investigate the ways in which those representations reflect larger issues and dilemmas for black childhood within American institutions and cultural discourse.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
CSRE 55S:
Real Men and Dragon Ladies: Race and Sexuality in America, 1662-1965 (HISTORY 55S)
How do race and sexuality mutually construct each other throughout American history? How do historians use primary sources to make historical arguments? Examines a variety of primary sources, including political pamphlets, legal documents, illustrations, and film. The historical trajectory we will follow examines the creation and elaboration of racial and sexual categories, from colonial slave codes and 19th century miscegenation law, through modern urban culture and the GI Bill.
| Units: 5
CSRE 56N:
Mixed Race in the New Millennium: Crossings of Kin, Faith & Culture (AFRICAAM 56N, ENGLISH 56N)
Preference to freshmen. How literature, theater, graphic art and popular culture shape understandings of contemporary "mixed race" identity and other complex experiences of cultural hybridity. Course explores implications for racial identity, art, and politics for the new millennium.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CSRE 99:
Poetics, Culture, and Geopolitics:Performing Power (DRAMA 110)
Poet/performer Mark Gonzales of the Human Writes Project leads a course that examines the relationship between traditional forms of power and the power of performance. Students will analyze the text of body and bureaucracy that is performed on the stage of the globe. Through this analysis students will engage in critical reflection of how performance creates spaces to move beyond the dialectic of oppression and dominance. At culmination, students will create their own text, through body, visuals, or multi-media, to share the summary of their ideas at a campus wide symposium.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
for credit
CSRE 103B:
Race, Ethnicity, and Linguistic Diversity in Classrooms: Sociocultural Theory and Practices (AFRICAAM 106, EDUC 103B, EDUC 337)
Focus is on classrooms with students from diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Studies, writing, and media representation of urban and diverse school settings; implications for transforming teaching and learning. Issues related to developing teachers with attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach diverse students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
CSRE 106A:
Gang Colors: The Racialization of Violence and the American City (ANTHRO 106A)
Street gangs (e.g. Bloods, Crips, Mara Salvatrucha, M-18, etc.) serve as a window onto the experience of racial, ethnic and economic marginalization under late capitalism. This class explores the context that gives rise to gang violence through a combination of anthropological, sociological, and historical approaches. Students will be familiarized with the macro-social factors that shape both gangs and the politics of violence in the Americas, North and South.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
CSRE 108:
Introduction to Feminist Studies (AMSTUD 107, FEMST 101, HISTORY 107)
Introduction to interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, which seeks to understand the creation, perpetuation, and critiques of gender inequalities. Topics include the historical emergence of feminist politics and contemporary analyses of work and family, health and sexuality, creativity, and politics. Close attention to the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality and to international, as well as U.S., perspectives. Students learn to think critically about gender in the past, present, and future.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 109B:
Indian Country Economic Development (NATIVEAM 109B)
The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century strategies for sustainable economic development and protection of political and cultural sovereignty.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
CSRE 114:
Universalism and its Discontents: French and US Perspectives on Race and Politics (AFRICAAM 114)
This course offers a comparative analysis of race and politics in the US and France. Both political systems are grounded in ideology confirming equality and individual liberty, yet find `race¿ a continual problematic obscuring ideals of the Nation. This course explores how French Republicanism and US democratic theory, including Postracialism explain race; and how each approach impacts institutions and public discourse on equality. We also will consider how shifting notions about race affects political mobilization.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
CSRE 117S:
History of California Indians (HISTORY 250A)
Demographic, political, and economic history of California Indians, 1700s-1950s. Processes and events leading to the destruction of California tribes, and their effects on the groups who survived. Geographic and cultural diversity. Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American periods. The mission system.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
CSRE 121X:
Hip Hop, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language (AFRICAAM 121X, AMSTUD 121X, ANTHRO 121A, EDUC 121X, LINGUIST 155)
Focus is on issues of language, identity, and globalization, with a focus on Hip Hop cultures and the verbal virtuosity within the Hip Hop nation. Beginning with the U.S., a broad, comparative perspective in exploring youth identities and the politics of language in what is now a global Hip Hop movement. Readings draw from the interdisciplinary literature on Hip Hop cultures with a focus on sociolinguistics and youth culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
CSRE 125V:
Minority Representation and the Voting Rights Act (POLISCI 125V)
Focus is on whether and how racial and ethnic minorities including African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos are able to organize and press their demands on the political system. Topics include the political behavior of minority citizens, the strength and effect of these groups at the polls, the theory and practice of group formation among minorities, the responsiveness of elected officials, and the constitutional obstacles and issues that shape these phenomena.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 126:
Race and Ethnicity in Popular Culture
This course will survey current American popular culture, e.g. movies, television shows, commercials, and music, in order to highlight representations that create and maintain our notions of race and gender. The course will put empirical research but material from other fields including film studies, cultural studies, anthropology, drama/performance and communications will also be included.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
CSRE 133:
Women and Race in the American West, 1849-1950 (HISTORY 258G)
The western myth of the lone white cowboy gives little insight into women and people of color. However, race and gender are crucial to the U.S. West's history, creating complex identities and social structures. The course examines lives of women of diverse races, in addition to the mythology surrounding icons such as pioneer mothers or Sacagawea. Using literature, art work, and film, along with works by historians, to analyze the intersection of race and and the relation between history and myth.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender
CSRE 135H:
Conversations in CSRE: Case Studies in the Stanford Community (ANTHRO 135H)
Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-2
CSRE 138:
Medical Ethics in Stratified World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise (ANTHRO 138, ANTHRO 238)
This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the societal, cultural, and political influences that make medical research a site of brokering in need of oversight and emergent ethics.nnThis seminar will provide students with tools to explore and critically assess the various technical, social, and ethical positions of researchers, as well as the role of the state, the media, and certain publics in shaping scientific research agendas. We will also examine how structural violence, poverty, global standing, and issues of citizenship also influence issues of consent and just science and medicine.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
CSRE 142:
The Literature of the Americas (AMSTUD 142, COMPLIT 142, ENGLISH 172E)
This course offers a wide-ranging overview of the literatures of the Americas innncomparative perspective, emphasizing continuities and crises that are common to North American, Central American, and South American literatures as well as the distinctive national and cultural elements of a diverse array of primary works. Topics include the definitions of such concepts as empire and colonialism, the encounters between worldviews of European and indigenous peoples, the emergence of creole and racially mixed populations, slavery, the New World voice, myths of America as paradise or utopia, the coming of modernism, twentieth-century avant-gardes, and distinctive modern episodes¿the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, magic realism, Noigandres¿in unaccustomed conversation with each other.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
CSRE 142A:
What is Hemispheric Studies? (COMPLIT 142A)
Will attempt to open up "America," beyond the United States. Have we reached the end of an era in our national literary imaginations? What is the utility and durability of the idea of the nation in a global era? New developments in hemispheric, Black Atlantic, and trans-american studies have raised questions about the very viability of US literary studies. Should we, as Franco Moretti suggests, map, count, and graph the relationships in our close (rhetorical) and "distant" readings of texts in the Americas? Topics include the definitions of concepts such as coloniality, modernity, time and the colonial difference, the encounters between world views of Europeans and indigenous Native American peoples, and the inventions of America, Latinamericanism, and Americanity.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CSRE 144:
Transforming Self and Systems: Crossing Borders of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Class (ASNAMST 144)
An exploration of crossing borders within ourselves, and between ¿us¿ and ¿them¿ through the following questions: How is understanding the self tied to understanding others? What does the ¿personal is political¿ mean for us? How can our personal identity struggles have meaning beyond the self? How does ¿synergistic consciousness¿ move us toward meaning, balance, connectedness, and wholeness? What knowledge comes from the heart? How does self healing lead to community healing? Can ¿victims¿ claim agency? How does contemplation lead to action? What is a narrative construction of reality? In a learning community, we will engage these questions through group process, journaling, reading, drama, creative writing, and storytelling.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
CSRE 145:
Race and Ethnic Relations in the USA (SOC 145, SOC 245)
(Graduate students register for 245.) Race and ethnic relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. The processes that render ethnic and racial boundary markers, such as skin color, language, and culture, salient in interaction situations. Why only some groups become targets of ethnic attacks. The social dynamics of ethnic hostility and ethnic/racial protest movements.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
CSRE 146:
Community Matters: Research and Service with Community Organizations
Methods and principles for academic research in community settings for students preparing to enter summer experiences with community organizations. Case studies and tools to help students conceptualize a research strateg. Students develop a memorandum of understanding in collaboration with the community agency to define the work, relationship, and mutual benefit of the research partnership.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
CSRE 146S:
Asian American Culture and Community (AMSTUD 146, ASNAMST 146S, COMPLIT 146)
An examination of the history, art and culture of Vietnamese Americans, and their contemporary experiences in the South Bay. The course will combine in-class learning with a major conference featuring prominent artists and scholars on the Vietnamese Diasporic community. A service learning component requires community work at a service organization in San Jose. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). Course can be repeated once.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
CSRE 147:
Show Me Your PAPERS: Immigration, Youth, Print-Making & Story-Telling For Social Change (ARTSTUDI 146)
Led by IDA visiting artist and acclaimed printmaker Favianna Rodriguez, this class will explore how printmaking and poster art can capture the richness of immigrant stories and help shift the immigration debate. Through lectures, guest speakers and art-making, the class will explore creative campaigns that can help frame progressive messages on immigration and create compelling stories, icons and metaphors in the cultural domain. Linoleum blocks, woodblocks and monotype prints developed in the class will be exhibited throughout the Bay Area along with public panel discussions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
CSRE 147A:
Race and Ethnicity Around the World (SOC 147, SOC 247)
How race and ethnicity has been used to justify segregation, domination and genocide but also be used to create a sense of community, shared responsibility and belonging. Where do divisions come from? Are they hard-wired, or easy to manipulate for political or economic gain? Should governments use these divisions to categorize their citizens? Examining how the de¿nitions, categories and consequences of race and ethnicity differ across time and place.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 149:
The Laboring of Diaspora & Border Literary Cultures (COMPLIT 149)
Focus is given to emergent theories of culture and on comparative literary and cultural studies. How do we treat culture as a social force? How do we go about reading the presence of social contexts within cultural texts? How do ethno-racial writers re-imagine the nation as a site with many "cognitive maps" in which the nation-state is not congruent with cultural identity? How do diaspora and border narratives/texts strive for comparative theoretical scope while remaining rooted in specific local histories.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
CSRE 150:
Race and Political Sociology (SOC 150, SOC 250)
How race informs the theories and research within political sociology. The state's role in creation and maintenance of racial categories, the ways in which racial identity motivates political actors, how race is used to legitimate policy decisions, comparisons across racial groups. Emphasis on understanding the ways race operates in the political arena.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
CSRE 154:
Anthropology of Drugs: Experience, Capitalism, Modernity (ANTHRO 154, ANTHRO 254B)
This course examines the significant role 'drugs' play in shaping expressions of the self and social life; in the management populations, and in the production of markets and inequality. It engages these themes through cultural representations of drugs and drug use, analyses of scientific discourse, and social theory. Topics include: the social construction of the licit and illicit; the shifting boundaries of deviance, disease and pleasure; and the relationship between local markets and global wars.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
CSRE 159H:
Creating Comedy, Performing Identity (DRAMA 159H)
This course examines how comedy has been utilized as a performance structure to negotiate issues of personal and group identity, including race, gender and sexuality. We will range from Shakespeare to Richard Pryor, covering stage comedy, solo performance, stand-up comedy, and sitcom.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
CSRE 160N:
Latino/Latina Performance in the United States (CHICANST 160N, DRAMA 17N)
Preference to freshmen. This course will introduce works by U.S. Latino and Latina performance artists producing from the margins of the mainstream Euro-American theater world. We will examine how performance art serves as a kind of dramatized political forum for Latino/a artists, producing some of the most transgressive explorations of queer and national/ethnic identities in the U.S. today. By the course¿s conclusion, each student will create and perform in a staged reading of an original performance piece.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
CSRE 162:
WOMEN IN MODERN AMERICA (AMSTUD 161, HISTORY 161)
Considers the political, economic, and social development of women in the United States during a long twentieth century. How have women been shaped or constrained by gendered conceptions of work, reproduction, education, family, and culture? Have all women reacted similarly to wars and depression or domestic and foreign policy? Through personal narratives and historical accounts, the course will answer these questions, observing how women negotiated gender, race, sexuality, and class difference to achieve greater opportunity and citizenship rights.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 163S:
Post Black Drama in the Age of Obama (AFRICAAM 163S, AMSTUD 163S, DRAMA 163S, DRAMA 363S)
This course will examine works of the new millennium that confront questions of African American experience. These plays are written by African American and non-black writers. In analyzing these works, this course will investigate such questions as: In a time that has been called 'Post Race' or 'Post Soul' or even 'Post Black,' what can we discern about African American drama? How do these plays reflect or contradict such labeling? How do these works speak to our times? Who does the form relate to in matters of content in these works? What do these works tell us about the contemporary constructions and meanings of blackness?
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CSRE 164:
Immigration and the Changing United States (CHICANST 164, SOC 164, SOC 264)
The role of race and ethnicity in immigrant group integration in the U.S. Topics include: theories of integration; racial and ethnic identity formation; racial and ethnic change; immigration policy; intermarriage; hybrid racial and ethnic identities; comparisons between contemporary and historical waves of immigration.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 166B:
Immigration Debates in America, Past and Present (HISTORY 166B, HISTORY 366B)
Examines the ways in which the immigration of people from around the world and migration within the United States shaped American nation-building and ideas about national identity in the twentieth century. Focuses on how conflicting ideas about race, gender, ethnicity, and citizenship with respect to particular groups led to policies both of exclusion and integration. Part One begins with the ways in which the American views of race and citizenship in the colonial period through the post-Reconstruction Era led to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 and subsequently to broader exclusions of immigrants from other parts of Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe, and Mexico. Explores how World War II and the Cold War challenged racial ideologies and led to policies of increasing liberalization culminating in the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, which eliminated quotas based on national origins and opened the door for new waves of immigrants, especially from Asia and Latin America. Part Two considers new immigration patterns after 1965, including those of refugees, and investigates the contemporary debate over immigration and immigration policy in the post 9/11 era as well as inequalities within the system and the impact of foreign policy on exclusions and inclusions.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 168:
New Citizenship: Grassroots Movements for Social Justice in the U.S. (ANTHRO 169A, CHICANST 168, FEMST 140H)
Focus is on the contributions of immigrants and communities of color to the meaning of citizenship in the U.S. Citizenship, more than only a legal status, is a dynamic cultural field in which people claim equal rights while demanding respect for differences. Academic studies of citizenship examined in dialogue with the theory and practice of activists and movements. Engagement with immigrant organizing and community-based research is a central emphasis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
CSRE 177:
Writing for Performance: The Fundamentals (DRAMA 177, DRAMA 277)
Course introduces students to the basic elements of playwriting and creative experimentation for the stage. Topics include: character development, conflict and plot construction, staging and setting, and play structure. Script analysis of works by contemporary playwrights may include: Marsha Norman, Patrick Shanley, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Octavio Solis and others. Table readings of one-act length work required by quarter¿s end.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE
CSRE 178:
Ethics and Politics of Public Service (ETHICSOC 133, HUMBIO 178, PHIL 175A, PHIL 275A, POLISCI 133, PUBLPOL 103D, URBANST 122)
Ethical and political questions in public service work, including volunteering, service learning, humanitarian assistance, and public service professions such as medicine and teaching. Motives and outcomes in service work. Connections between service work and justice. Is mandatory service an oxymoron? History of public service in the U.S. Issues in crosscultural service work. Integration with the Haas Center for Public Service to connect service activities and public service aspirations with academic experiences at Stanford.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
CSRE 179:
Asian American Experiences and Documentary Practice (FILMSTUD 279)
Focus is on documentary cinema as a technology for understanding Asian Americans in the U.S. The social and historical context of the formation of the Asian American filmmaker, an authorial position that emerges in the 60s and 70s as part of the civil rights movement. Works include films by Loni Ding, Bob Nakamura and Curtis Choy; readings about the establishment of Asian American media industries and Asian American film criticism as a multi-genre. Social issue documentaries that represent new ethnographies of social experience including transnational adoption (Daughter From Danang), refugee experience (AKA Don Bonus), and sex tourism (The Women Outside). Readings include analyses of the implications of these works for cinema studies, ethnic studies, and the politics of film in everyday life. Experimental documentaries and their interrogation of the limits of the documentary form in representing identities and social problems. How does representation matter within and for Asian America in framing the complexities of race and racial identity? Screenings include works by Marlon Fuentes, Rea Tajiri and Trinh T. Minh-ha.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CSRE 179F:
Flor y Canto: Poetry Workshop (DRAMA 179F, DRAMA 279F)
Poetry reading and writing. The poet as philosopher and the poet as revolutionary. Texts: the philosophical meditations of pre-Columbian Aztec poetry known as flor y canto, and reflections on the poetry of resistance born out of the nationalist and feminist struggles of Latin America and Aztlán. Required 20-page poetry manuscript.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CSRE 180E:
Introduction to Chicana/o Studies (CHICANST 180E)
Historical and contemporary experiences that have defined the status of Mexican-origin people living in the U.S. Topics include the U.S./Mexico border and the borderlands; immigration and anti-immigration sentiment; literary and cultural traditions; music; labor; historical perspectives on Mexicans in the U.S. and the Chicano movement; urban realities; gender relations; political and economic changes; and inter- and intra-group interactions. Sources include social science and humanities scholarship.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
CSRE 183:
Border Crossings and American Identities (AMSTUD 183, ANTHRO 183A)
How novelists, filmmakers, and poets perceive racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preference, and class borders in the context of a national discussion about the place of Americans in the world. How Anna Deavere Smith, Sherman Alexie, or Michael Moore consider redrawing such lines so that center and margin, or self and other, do not remain fixed and divided. How linguistic borderlines within multilingual literature by Caribbean, Arab, and Asian Americans function. Can Anzaldúa's conception of borderlands be constructed through the matrix of language, dreams, music, and cultural memories in these American narratives? Course includes examining one's own identity.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
CSRE 192E:
Topics in the History of Sexuality: Sexual Violence (AMSTUD 258, HISTORY 258, HISTORY 358)
Recent historical interpretations of sexual violence, with particular attention to the intersections of gender and race in the construction of rape, from early settlement through the twentieth century. Topics include the legal prosecution of rape in Early America; the racialization of rape in the U.S.; lynching and anti-lynching in the U.S.; and feminist responses to sexual violence.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 196C:
Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (ENGLISH 172D, PSYCH 155, SOC 146)
How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 198:
Internship for Public Service
Restricted to CSRE comparative studies majors with a concentration in public service. Students consult with the CSRE undergraduate program director and CSRE affiliated faculty to develop an internship. Group meetings. May be repeated for credit. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
CSRE 199:
Pre-Honors Seminar
For students interested in writing a senior honors thesis. Conceptualizing and defining a manageable honors project, conducting interdisciplinary research, the parameters of a literature review essay, and how to identify a faculty adviser.
| Units: 1-2
CSRE 200:
Latin@ Literature (CHICANST 200, ILAC 280, ILAC 382)
Texts by U.S. Latin@s of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican descent. Examines how these writers' shared history of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism has resulted in differing representations of home and homeland, nation, diaspora, history, and memory. Explores how racialization informs the production of gendered identities as well as sexualities. Analysis of the formal conventions of fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and film.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
CSRE 200R:
Directed Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Alim, H. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Carrasco, D. (PI);
Darling-Hammond, L. (PI);
Mitchell, T. (PI);
Montoya, J. (PI);
Moraga, C. (PI);
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Saldivar, J. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Snipp, C. (PI);
Sohn, S. (PI);
Steyer, J. (PI);
Tsai, J. (PI)
CSRE 200W:
Directed Reading
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Alim, H. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Chang, J. (PI);
Elam, M. (PI);
Hernandez, G. (PI);
Lythcott-Haims, J. (PI);
Mitchell, T. (PI);
Moraga, C. (PI);
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI);
Saldivar, J. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Snipp, C. (PI)
CSRE 200X:
CSRE Senior Seminar
Required for CSRE-related students, including those who opt to write honors theses in other departments and programs. Research and the writing of the senior honors thesis or senior paper under the supervision of a faculty project adviser. The process of research including conceptualization, development of prospectus, development of theses, research, analysis, and writing.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
CSRE 200Y:
CSRE Senior Honors Research
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
CSRE 200Z:
CSRE Senior Honors Research
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
CSRE 201B:
From Racial Justice to Multiculturalism: Movement-based Arts Organizing in the Post Civil Rights Era (CHICANST 201B)
How creative projects build and strengthen communities of common concern. Projects focus on cultural reclamation, multiculturalism, cultural equity and contemporary cultural wars, media literacy, independent film, and community-based art. Guest artists and organizers, films, and case studies.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
CSRE 220:
Public Policy Institute
Public Policy Institute serves to: provide students with information and perspectives on important public policy issues that have particular relevancy to matters of race and ethnicity in American society, past and present; expose students to faculty and other professionals working on public policy-related issues; and provide insight into the legislative process of public policy making at the state and local levels. Students are expected to conduct research necessary to write a policy brief on a particular issue, and makena presentation based on the policy brief. A field trip to Sacramento introduces students to policymakers and current policy matters of importance to marginalized communities in California.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
CSRE 255D:
Racial Identity in the American Imagination (AFRICAAM 255, AMSTUD 255D, HISTORY 255D, HISTORY 355D)
Major historical transformations shaping the understanding of racial identity and how it has been experienced, represented, and contested in American history. Topics include: racial passing and racial performance; migration, immigration, and racial identity in the urban context; the interplay between racial identity and American identity; the problems of class, gender, and sexuality in the construction of racial identity. Sources include historical and legal texts, memoirs, photography, literature, film, and music.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
CSRE 260:
California's Minority-Majority Cities (HISTORY 260, HISTORY 360)
Historical development and the social, cultural, and political issues that characterize large cities and suburbs where communities of color make up majority populations. Case studies include cities in Los Angeles, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties. Comparisons to minority-majority cities elsewhere in the U.S. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CSRE 53S:
Passing Unseen: Race, Discourse, and Cultural Expectation
Narratives of passing are usually founded on visible manifestations of racial difference. But the possibility for passing means, of course, that race is not always obvious or apparent in terms of skin color. There are critical elements of representation and passing that go unseen. And even without the problematic ideal of visible race, there is still deep cultural interest and investment in racial differentiation ¿ this course investigates modes of passing unseen.
| Units: 3
CSRE 104F:
The Modern Tradition of Non-Violent Resistance (AFRICAAM 204F, HISTORY 204F)
During the twentieth century, peasants and menial laborers who comprised the majority of humanity launched liberation movements to secure citizenship rights. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela are among the leaders whose ideas continue to influence contemporary movements for global peace with social justice in a sustainable environment.
| Units: 5
CSRE 107:
The Black Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and Antiquity (AFRICAAM 107C)
Explore problems of race and ethnicity as viable criteria in studying ancient societies and consider the question, What is the Mediterranean?, in relation to premodern evidence. Investigate the role of blackness as a marker of ethnicity; the demography of slavery and its roles in forming social identities; and environmental determinism as a factor in ethnic and racial thinking. Consider Greek and Roman perspectives and behavior, and their impact on later theories of race and ethnicity as well as the Mediterranean as a whole.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
CSRE 117N:
Film, Nation, Latinidad (CHICANST 117N)
Examination of films from Spain, Mexico, and Latina/o USA that expand, trouble, contest, parody, or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity. Filmmakers may include Lourdes Portillo, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Sayles, Maria Novaro, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gregory Nava.
| Units: 3-4
CSRE 120:
Native American Writers, 1880-1920 (NATIVEAM 120)
The period of time-1880 to 1920-is a time when many important events in American Indian history occurred. Hoxie's historical work provides a framework for analyzing what effects these policies had on American Indian people. His work does not provide an American Indian perspective; he stated at the onset, that this was not an objective in this study. His main objective was to present a study that shows Indians' relations with whites as a "clash of two complex cultures" from a white point of view (Hoxie xxi). Three American Indians writing during this time period provide the needed Indian perspective lacking in Hoxie's work.
| Units: 5
CSRE 135I:
CSRE House Seminar: Race and Ethnicity at Stanford (ANTHRO 135I)
Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.
| Units: 1-2
CSRE 173S:
Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (AFRICAAM 173S, ASNAMST 173S)
Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such as representations of mixed race people in media and multicultural communities. What the lives of people like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal about how the marginal is becoming mainstream.
| Units: 5
CSRE 179G:
Indigenous Identity in Diaspora: People of Color Art Practice in North America (CSRE 279G, DRAMA 179G, DRAMA 279G)
This "gateway" core course to the IDA emphasis in CSRE offers a 21st century examination of people of color aesthetics and related politics, drawing from contemporary works (literature, music, visual and performing arts) in conversation with their native (especially American Indigenous and African) origins. Issues of gender and sexuality in relation to cultural identity are also integral to this study. Students will be required to produce a final work, integrating critical writing with a creative project.
| Units: 3-5
CSRE 186:
African Visual Art & Graphic Communication in the Americas (AFRICAAM 196, ARTHIST 196, ARTHIST 396)
The class addresses the modes of visual expression used among the Bakongo people in Central Africa and their descendents in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil and argues that together these constitute identifiable graphic writing systems. After providing a brief overview of the forms of graphic expression in use within Kongo and Kongo Atlantic cultures, the class focuses on the most central of the traditional cosmograms, Dikenga. By mapping the meanings and forms of Dikenga, the essay attempts to demonstrate its continuity throughout the Kongo diaspora. Finally, the class highlights the rich cosmology, cosmogony, and moral philosophy that have consistently informed the use and meaning of Dikenga in its central role in religious narratives, moral philosophy and religious education among the Bakongo in Atlantic world.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CSRE 189W:
Language and Minority Rights (CHICANST 189W, EDUC 189X)
Language as it is implicated in migration and globalization. The effects of globalization processes on languages, the complexity of language use in migrant and indigenous minority contexts, the connectedness of today's societies brought about by the development of communication technologies. Individual and societal multilingualism; preservation and revival of endangered languages.
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
CSRE 201C:
Critical Concepts in Chicana/o Literature (CHICANST 201C)
Interrogation of the critical discourses that have configured and reconfigured the canon of Chicana/o literature over the last thirty years. Close textual readings of primary texts, mainly narrative, within the development of Chicana/o literary and cultural criticism. Construction of narrative genealogies and foundational texts. Impact of the publication of late-nineteenth or pre-movement novels and Chicana feminist/lesbian/queer critiques. Consideration of alternative paradigms such as positioning Chicana/o literature within a U.S. Latina/o literary imaginary, and the shift of critical discourse in the field of visual art from a paradigm of resistance and affirmation to one of "post" Chicano.
| Units: 3-5
CSRE 203A:
The Changing Face of America: Civil Rights and Education Strategies for the 21st Century
For students with leadership potential who have studied these topics in lecture format. Race discrimination strategies, their relation to education reform initiatives, and the role of media in shaping racial attitudes in the U.S.
| Units: 5
CSRE 216X:
Education, Race, and Inequality in African American History, 1880-1990 (EDUC 216X, HISTORY 255E)
Seminar. The relationship among race, power, inequality, and education from the 1880s to the 1990s. How schools have constructed race, the politics of school desegregation, and ties between education and the late 20th-century urban crisis.
| Units: 3-5
CSRE 233A:
Counseling Theories and Interventions from a Multicultural Perspective (AFRICAAM 233A, EDUC 233A)
In an era of globalization characterized by widespread migration and cultural contacts, professionals face a unique challenge: How does one practice successfully when working with clients/students from so many different backgrounds? This course focuses upon the need to examine, conceptualize, and work with individuals according to the multiple ways in which they identify themselves. It will systematically examine multicultural counseling concepts, issues, and research. Literature on counselor and client characteristics such as social status or race/ethnicity and their effects on the counseling process and outcome will be reviewed. Issues in consultation with culturally and linguistically diverse parents and students and work with migrant children and their families are but a few of the topics covered in this course.
| Units: 3-5
CSRE 245:
Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development (AFRICAAM 245, EDUC 245)
African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American racial and ethnic identity development; the influence of social, political and psychological forces in shaping the experience of people of color in the U.S. The importance of race in relationship to social identity variables including gender, class, and occupational, generational, and regional identifications. Bi- and multiracial identity status, and types of white racial consciousness.
| Units: 3-5
CSRE 279G:
Indigenous Identity in Diaspora: People of Color Art Practice in North America (CSRE 179G, DRAMA 179G, DRAMA 279G)
This "gateway" core course to the IDA emphasis in CSRE offers a 21st century examination of people of color aesthetics and related politics, drawing from contemporary works (literature, music, visual and performing arts) in conversation with their native (especially American Indigenous and African) origins. Issues of gender and sexuality in relation to cultural identity are also integral to this study. Students will be required to produce a final work, integrating critical writing with a creative project.
| Units: 3-5
