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The principal purpose of this course is to support Habla language coaches in developing lesson plans and strategies to implement during their coaching sessions with English language learners. The course equips students with a foundational understanding of English as a second language, practical experience with developing educational materials for language learning, and a collaborative space to reflect on their experiences as English language coaches. Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center for Public Service.

The seminar introduces students to major themes connected to the immigrant experience, including identity, education, assimilation, transnationalism, political membership, and intergroup relations. There will also be some attention given to research methodology. The seminar addresses these themes through reading ethnographies that document the everyday experience of immigrants and immigrant communities, broadly defined, in the United States. The course readings primarily come from more contemporary ethnographic research, but it will also include a sampling of ethnographies that examine the experience of previous waves of immigrants. Student participation will include in-class discussions of readings, short written responses to readings, and a final paper in which students draw on original ethnographic research that they conduct during the quarter. By the end of the quarter, students will be able to identify the social, political, and economic forces that shape the immigrant experience. More importantly, students will understand HOW these forces enter the immigrant experience in everyday life.

Latinx geographies are multiple and relational - they are the spatial manifestations of how Latinx peoples produce and experience the places they inhabit. These geographies are multisensory and tangible, made up of the layered dimensions of the places and peoples we exist in relation to. In this course we will explore the spatial theories and methods generated by Latinx communities, unpacking why space matters and exploring the diverse ways that Latinx peoples, quite literally, make space. We will consider these geographies across space and time, thinking transnationally and intersectionally through multiple layers of conquest and empire, and exploring how the Latinx diaspora produces space across the hemisphere. We will ruminate on what makes up a Latinx geographic method, considering the role of storytelling, song, refranes, food, art, music, and testimonio in the weaving of Latinx geographies. Students will be invited to weave their own conceptions of Latinx geographies in the course, developing a final project that traces the spatial and creative methods that emerge from their lived genealogies.

How have American writers tried to expose and illuminate racism and sexism through fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and poetry? How have they tried to focus our attention on discrimination and prejudice based on race, gender, ethnicity, class, religion and national origin? What writing strategies can break through apathy and ignorance? What role, if any, can humor play in this process?