Undergraduate courses in Chicana/o Studies

The era of the zoot suit through theater. Key events before, during, and after the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial that resulted in the 1943 zoot suit riots in Los Angeles. Social, political, and cultural issues. How history can be retold through theater and how performance can speak to social issues. Sources include Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez.

1-2 units, not given this year

CHICANST 121C. Chicana/o Film Practices

(Same as CSRE 121C.) The ideological parameters of Chicanismo, including migration, labor, organized state violence, collectivism, familialism, spirtual practices, gender, and sexual politics. The cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of film form, including formal and textual analysis.

5 units, not given this year

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

(Same as CSRE 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.

5 units, Win (Staff)

CHICANST 122. Introduction to Latina Literature

(Same as CSRE 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.

3-5 units, Spr (Staff)

CHICANST 165A. Chicana/o History

(Same as CSRE 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.

5 units, Aut (Staff)

CHICANST 187C. Latino Children: Cultural and Social Contexts of Development

(Same as CSRE 187C.) Ecological contexts, including family, school, and society, that shape the psychosocial and educational outcomes of Latino children. Sources include developmental and cultural psychology, anthropology of education, and sociology. (Borsato)

5 units, not given this year

CHICANST 189W. Language and Minority Rights

(Same as CSRE 189W.) 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.

3 units, Win (Staff)

CHICANST 200R. Directed Research

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

CHICANST 200W. Directed Reading

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

CHICANST 201B. From Racial Justice to Multiculturalism: Movement-based Arts Organizing in the Post Civil Rights Era

(Same as CSRE 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.

5 units, Aut (Hernandez, G)

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Undergraduate courses in Chicana/o Studies