printer friendly pageCHILATST 14N: Growing Up Bilingual (CSRE 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
Instructors:
Valdes, G. (PI)
CHILATST 120: Queer Raza (FEMGEN 120, ILAC 287)
Examination of cultural representations by U.S. Latin@s that explore the following questions: How is the mutual constitution of race/sex/class/gender theorized and represented? How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex acts and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How to reconcile pleasure and desire with histories of imperialism and (neo)colonialism and other structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the "ideal" bodies of national identity? How do these texts produce queerness as a web of social relations?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
CHILATST 160N: Chican@/Latin@ Performance in the U.S. (TAPS 160N)
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: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
CHILATST 168: New Citizenship: Grassroots Movements for Social Justice in the U.S. (ANTHRO 169A, CSRE 168, FEMGEN 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)
CHILATST 179F: Flor y Canto: Poetry Workshop (CSRE 179F, TAPS 179F, TAPS 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: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
;
Chakrabarti, S. (TA)
CHILATST 180E: Introduction to Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies
Historical and contemporary experiences that have defined the status of Latina/o peoples living in the U.S. Topics include the U.S./Mexico border and the borderlands; immigration and transnational migrations; literary and cultural traditions; music; labor; historical perspectives on Latina/o peoples 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: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Gallardo, S. (PI)
CHILATST 183X: Practicum in English-Spanish School & Community Interpreting (EDUC 183X, EDUC 283X)
This practicum will assist students in developing a set of skills in English-Spanish interpreting that will prepare them to provide interpretation services in school and community settings. The course will build students' abilities to transfer intended meanings between two or more monolingual individuals of who are physically present in a school or community setting and who must communicate with each other for professional (and personal) purposes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Valdes, G. (PI)
CHILATST 198: Internship for Public Service (CSRE 198)
Students should consult with CCSRE Director of Service-Learning (nadiad@stanford.edu) to develop or sign-up for a community service internship. Group meetings may be required. May be repeated for credit. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
De Leon, N. (PI)
CHILATST 200: Latin@ Literature (CSRE 200, ILAC 280, ILAC 382)
Examines a diverse set of narratives by U.S. Latin@s of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Dominican heritage through the lens of latinidad. All share the historical experience of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism, yet their im/migration patterns differ, affecting social, cultural, and political trajectories in the US and relationships to "home" and "homeland," nation, diaspora, history, and memory. Explores how racialization informs genders as well as sexualities. Emphasis on textual analysis. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
CHILATST 200R: Directed Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
;
Segura, G. (PI)
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