printer friendly pageCHICANST 14N: Growing Up Bilingual (CSRE 14N)
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.
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CHICANST 117N: Film, Nation, Latinidad (CSRE 117N, ILAC 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
CHICANST 125S: Chicano/Latino Politics (POLISCI 125S)
The political position of Latinos and Latinas in the U.S.. Focus is on Mexican Americans, with attention to Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other groups. The history of each group in the American polity; their political circumstances with respect to the electoral process, the policy process, and government; the extent to which the demographic category Latino is meaningful; and group identity and solidarity among Americans of Latin American ancestry. Topics include immigration, education, affirmative action, language policy, and environmental justice.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Michelson, M. (PI)
CHICANST 160N: Latino/Latina Performance in the United States (CSRE 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
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
CHICANST 164: Immigration and the Changing United States (CSRE 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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CHICANST 166: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanos in American Society (SOC 166, SOC 266)
Contemporary sociological issues affecting Mexican-origin people in the U.S. Topics include: the immigrant experience, immigration policy, identity, socioeconomic integration, internal diversity, and theories of incorporation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Jimenez, T. (PI)
CHICANST 167: Chicana and Chicano Representation in Cinema (CSRE 167, FILMSTUD 138)
This course surveys representations of Chicana/os and Latina/os, in independent and Hollywood film and video across a variety of genres. We will consider how film and video are social and artistic phenomenon where cultural and political debates about identity and community are narrated and imagined. Films will be historically situated in relation to the Chicano civil rights movement, the emergence of Chicano in film and television, international film movements, the struggle for access into the means for self-representation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
de la mora, s. (PI)
CHICANST 168: New Citizenship: Grassroots Movements for Social Justice in the U.S. (ANTHRO 169A, CSRE 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
Instructors:
Coll, K. (PI)
CHICANST 180E: Introduction to Chicana/o Studies (CSRE 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
Instructors:
Gallardo, S. (PI)
CHICANST 199A: Race / Sex / Gender in Cultural Representations (CSRE 199A, ILAC 389E)
Critical theory and cultural representations in a variety of media that address issues surrounding the representation of race, gender, sexuality and politics. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex as a material practice and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How do we reconcile questions of pleasure and desire and the structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the "ideal" bodies of national identity? Is it desirable to envision a bridging of queer communities of color, or a transnational, transfronterizo or global network?
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
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