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CSRE 12: Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith, and Gender in the 2008 Election (AFRICAAM 12)

From the 2008 nomination process to the election between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.The complexities of identity and its role in uniting and dividing the electorate. Panels covering the media, political participation, and group affiliation.
Terms: Aut | Units: 1-3
Instructors: ; Elam, M. (PI); Snipp, C. (PI); Daube, M. (GP); Samson, F. (GP)

CSRE 109A: Federal Indian Law (NATIVEAM 109A)

Cases, legislation, comparative justice models, and historical and cultural material. The interlocking relationships of tribal, federal, and state governments. Emphasis is on economic development, religious freedom, and environmental justice issues in Indian country.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Biestman, K. (PI)

CSRE 117S: History of California Indians (NATIVEAM 117S)

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.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
Instructors: ; Anderson, J. (PI)

CSRE 121R: Redefining the Nation: Chicana/o Literature and Art From the 1960s to the Present (CHICANST 121R)

Topics include categories of national identity construction and identity performance such as the body, family, and community. Borderlands as a transnational concept emphasizing links between the U.S. and other regions of the continent.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Ibarra, M. (GP)

CSRE 124: Beyond Spanglish: Bilingual Chicana/o Cultural Productions (CHICANST 124)

The use of Spanglish by those who embrace it as part of a cultural identity and those who oppose it as a denigration of Spanish and English languages. Sociolinguistic perspectives on language mixing.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Madrigal, D. (PI)

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
Instructors: ; Mitchell, T. (PI)

CSRE 153: Race and Ethnicity in Stand-Up Comedy (AFRICAAM 153, DRAMA 153)

American stand-up comedy since WW II America by African, Asian, Jewish, and Latina/o Americans. How performers negotiated questions of individual and group identity through the paradigms of race and ethnicity.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Daube, M. (PI)

CSRE 165A: Chicana/o History (CHICANST 165A, HISTORY 264X)

The history of Mexican-origin people in the U.S. from 1848 to the present. Mexican American experiences as integral to American history. Tthemes include the effects of conquest, patterns of migration, labor and the formation of social classes, racialization, gender roles, ideology, and political activism.
| Units: 5

CSRE 173S: Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (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.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (PI)

CSRE 179G: Indigenous Identity in Diaspora: People of Color Art Practice in North America (DRAMA 179G, DRAMA 279G)

Gateway course for Institute for Diversity in Arts concentration. People of color aesthetics from contemporary art works in conversation with native (American, African, Asian) origins, gender, and sexuality; the formation of cultural identity. Final project.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Moraga, C. (PI); Witherspoon, N. (PI)

CSRE 186: Korean Diaspora (ASNAMST 186)

Korean communities and the question of how Korean identities are shaped by discourses on race and ethnicity, gender, colonialism, and religion in different national contexts. Shifting concepts of nation, home, community, and citizenship in the formation of what it means to be Korean. Topics include the Korean War, entrepreneurship, intergenerational relations, marriage and family, the role of the church, and adoption. Sources include ethnography, literature, and film.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Lee, S. (PI)

CSRE 196C: Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (HISTORY 65, 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 2008 | 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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Mitchell, T. (PI)

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. (Thompson)
Terms: Win | Units: 1
Instructors: ; Quinn, R. (PI)

CSRE 200R: Directed Research

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Camarillo, A. (PI); Carrasco, D. (PI); Darling-Hammond, L. (PI); Mitchell, T. (PI); Montoya, J. (PI); Moraga, C. (PI); Rickford, J. (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: ; Camarillo, A. (PI); Carrasco, D. (PI); Darling-Hammond, L. (PI); Elam, M. (PI); Hernandez, G. (PI); Mitchell, T. (PI); Montoya, J. (PI); Moraga, C. (PI); Moya, P. (PI); Rickford, J. (PI); Segura, G. (PI); Snipp, C. (PI); Sohn, S. (PI); Steyer, J. (PI); Tsai, J. (PI); Ibarra, M. (GP)

CSRE 200X: CSRE Senior Seminar

Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Quinn, R. (PI); Tsai, J. (PI)

CSRE 200Y: CSRE Senior Honors Research

(Thompson, Snipp)
Terms: Win | Units: 1-10 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Quinn, R. (PI)

CSRE 200Z: CSRE Senior Honors Research

(Thompson, Snipp)
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-10 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Quinn, R. (PI)

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
Instructors: ; Hernandez, G. (PI)

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.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Montoya, J. (PI); Steyer, J. (PI); Ibarra, M. (GP)

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.
| Units: 5

CSRE 122: Introduction to Latina Literature (CHICANST 122)

Interdisciplinary. Intracultural differences amongst Latinas such as around immigration. Themes include gender, sexuality, identity, language politics, transnationalism, socioeonomic status, and the notion of homeland and its loss and reclamation.
| Units: 3-5

CSRE 130K: Youth, Schools, and Race in Film

Representations of youth and schools in the media, focusing on independent, documentary, and mainstream films. Sociohistorical survey and thematic analysis of schooling in urban contexts. The multiple, often competing, discourses about young people, their schools, and their experiences in and outside of them. Interdisciplinary perspectives and readings from education, ethnic studies, media studies, and related fields.
| Units: 5

CSRE 131: Race and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Literature

Modes of racial reconciliation and differentiation in post-apartheid literature, motivated by seemingly contradictory impulses: to surmount racial differences by integrating into a national culture; and for racial identity through the revival of diverse ethnic origins. The relationship between literary aesthetics and racial politics for a society seeking radical but peaceful transition.
| Units: 500

CSRE 131A: Race and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Literature

How the writers of the new S. Africa have narrated the past as a way of imagining its future. Racial reconciliation in new S. African literature, and the relationship between literary aesthetics and racial politics for a society in transition. Negotiation and invention motivated by a desire to surmount racial differences through integration into a national culture and a yearning for racial identity through the revival of diverse ethnic origins.
| Units: 5

CSRE 189W: Language and Minority Rights (CHICANST 189W, EDUC 189)

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
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