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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Theoretical and literary readings combined to explore three main aspects of social and cultural experience (race, gender, class) as separate but interconnected spheres affecting both minority and majority populations in U.S. Examination of these issues from comparative perspectives. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. New immigrant rights movement, with particular attention to labor and higher education. Overview of history of immigrant rights movement and examination of development of coalition efforts between labor movement and immigrant rights movement nationally and locally. Special focus on issue of immigrant students in higher education, challenges facing undocumented immigrant students, and legislative and policy issues that have emerged. Students conduct oral histories, family histories, research on immigration and immigrant rights, write poetry and spoken word about immigrant experience, and work to collectively develop student publication on immigrant students in higher education. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, two hours. Requisite: course M166A. Expansion of research conducted by students in course M166A involving oral histories, research on immigration/labor/higher education, and evaluation of legislation and legal issues impacting undocumented students. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Chicana and Chicano Studies M130 and Labor and Workplace Studies M167.) Seminar, three hours. Development of theoretical and practical understanding of worker center movement, with focus on historical factors that have led to emergence and growth of worker centers. Role of worker centers in promoting multiethnic and multiracial campaigns for workplace and economic justice. Transnational crossborder solidarity issues and rights of undocumented workers. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, two hours. Not open to freshmen or students with credit for GE Clusters 20A and/or 20B. Examination of nature and meaning of race, racism, and interracial dialogues in U.S. through various disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, history, literary criticism, and film studies. Race as social and historical category that shapes contemporary American life. P/NP or letter grading. M167A. Enforced corequisite: attendance, but not enrollment, in GE Clusters 20A lecture; M167B. Enforced corequisite: attendance, but not enrollment, in GE Clusters 20B lecture.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Exploration of issues in outreach and retention of students in higher education, especially through student-initiated programs, efforts, activities, and services, with focus on UCLA as case. May be repeated twice for credit. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of race, socially constructed category, from anthropological perspective. Consideration of development of racial categories over time and in different regions, racial passing, multiracial identity in U.S., whiteness, race in popular culture, and race and identity. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Recommended preparation: History 176A, 176B, 176C. Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of complex interrelationship between U.S. colonialism, Philippine nationalism, history of Filipino Americans, and Philippine diaspora in 20th century. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as History M175B.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. History of overseas Indian communities; transformations of Hinduism in diaspora; emergence of new diasporic art forms such as bhangra rap and chutney music; relations between Indians and other racial and ethnic groups; Indian women as embodiment of Indian culture; diasporic identities. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Vietnamese not required. Critical and historical examination of literary and/or filmic representations connected to social practices such as empire, nation, diaspora, and globalization. Original language course materials available for interested students. P/NP or letter grading.
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