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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: adequate understanding of Spanish-language films without English subtitles. Throughout its rich history, spanning more than 100 years, Mexican cinema has produced great variety of films that deal with Chicana/ Chicano experience. Like its U.S. counterpart, Mexican cinematic discourse portrayal of Chicanas/Chicanos has been plagued by use of stereotypes that limit visual representation of Chicanas/Chicanos. Exploration of causes and effects for such obtuse cinematic representation. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Analysis of historical formation and development of Chicano/Latino communities in 20th century, with focus on labor, immigration, economic structures, electoral politics, and international dimensions. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Discussion on relationship between international immigration and development of Chicana/Chicano community. Examination of U.S. immigration policy and relationship between Mexicanorigin population and other Latin American immigrants. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Through combination of lectures, key readings, and several experiments, introduction to several applied research methods that are highly effective in producing sound and methodologically rigorous studies on poor and/or Latino communities, including important data that can be used for critical analysis and policy recommendations. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of complex dynamics in relationship between Mexico and U.S., using political economy approach to study of asymmetrical integration between advanced industrial economies and developing countries. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; field studies, two hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Discussion of roles of union and nonunion worker organizations in society and in improvement of quality of life for Latina/ Latino communities. Review and application of field research methods to labor organizations and workplace sites, especially participant observation, interview techniques, and grounded theory and other methods of data analysis. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Construction of model by which to organize study of Chicana/Chicano popular culture by focusing on barrio as metaphor for community. Examination of beliefs, myths, and values of Chicana/Chicano culture and representations in icons, heroes, legends, stereotypes, and popular art forms through literature, film, video, music, mass media, and oral history. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Investigation through history, popular culture, and mass media of bilingual and bicultural identities produced by geographical and cultural space between Mexico and U.S. Special attention to border consciousness as site of conflict and resistance. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Analysis, through cultural studies perspective, of exhibitions of Chicana/Chicano and Latina/Latino art that have occupied space in mainstream museums across U.S. since mid-1980s. Examination of how these shows both serve and subvert multicultural agenda in art world and how political identities are packaged and produced in process of exhibition-making. Field trips to local museums. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Introduction to Nahuatl philosophy through pictographic writing systems of pre-Hispanic Mexican art and to Nahuatl culture through examples of its sculptures, codices, and ancient archaeological sites. Exposure to beginning Nahuatl language total immersion experience through vocabulary of ancient calendar, greetings, songs, and rituals. Discussions of reading materials, as well as glyph-drawing. Reading of works of both pioneering philosophers of mid-20th century and current researchers of iconography and oral tradition. How ancients' worldview can be relevant to address dire problems in world of today. P/NP or letter grading.
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