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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Study of essays, novels, short narratives, and plays written by Chicanas/Latinas. Required readings represent writers with focus on themes of identity, ethnicity, gender, and cross-border experiences leading to social change. Critical reading and analysis of works, searching for strengths and flaws, to point out unique contribution of each work to greater body of U.S. literature. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Spanish (level 4). Analyses, comparisons, and discussion of narrative literary production of U.S. Chicana writers and their Latin American counterparts in English and Spanish, with particular focus on how each group deals with gender, ethnic, and class issues. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Spanish (level 4). Survey of premises of Mesoamerican literatures, including myths, lyrics, poetry, religious celebrations, rituals, and drama, specifically of Aztec and Mayan peoples prior to European contact. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Historical examination of diverse racial and cultural roots of Chicanas and Chicanos. Utilizing theoretical frameworks of mestizaje, Aztlán, indigenismo, La Raza Cósmica, and la tercera raÃz, examination of some important groups who have contributed to formation of Mexican national culture. Development of race relations in Mexico during colonial period, with focus on analysis of Nahuas (Aztecs), Mixtecs, Spaniards, and African slave population. Analysis of Asian immigration to Mexico and California during national period, specifically examination of migration and adaptation experiences of Chinese, Japanese, and Punjabi-Indian immigrants. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Examination of Chicana/ Chicano intergroup relations and political coalitions with other Latinos, African Americans, Asian and Pacific Islanders, and Euro-Americans, especially in communities undergoing rapid changes in demographic composition. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Examination of Chicanas and Latinas as participants, organizers, and leaders in communities, workplaces, labor unions, and government. Survey of Chicanas/Latinas in politics and as policymakers in appointed and elected offices. Analysis of gendering of politics and political behavior. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Historical examination of political economic context in which affirmative action policies and programs were conceived and implemented. Review of impact on Chicanas/Chicanos, Latinas/Latinos, and other communities. Specific analysis of university admissions, hiring and contracting practices, and state initiatives. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Collective examination of Chicano Movement of 1960s and 1970s and analysis of its political legacies. Grounded in historiographic inquiry and social movement theory, investigation of mobilization of diverse sectors of el movimiento, including students, workers, artists, youth, community activists, and women. Exploration of myriad issues and struggles that compelled Chicanas/Chicanos to resist such as land and labor rights, education, antiwar movements, community autonomy, police brutality, political inclusion, cultural recovery, racism, sexism, and class exploitation. Investigation of diverse ideologies, debates, and legacies of Chicano Movement through analysis of Chicana/Chicano motivations for organizing, modes, strategies, innovations, challenges, and articulation of new political subjectivities. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Survey course presenting (1) basic elements of Chicano language use, including history of Chicano languages, types and social functions of Chicano speech ( pachuco, caló, Spanglish), sexist language, and multilingualism and monolingualism and (2) major social issues associated with language use by Chicanos and other urban ethnic populations. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 160. Exploration of various theories of sociolinguistics, social/cultural change, ethnicity, and power to develop cohesive model of Chicano sociolinguistics. Topics include histories and typology of Chicano language varieties, language change and maintenance/loss, language attitude studies, and American social institutional (media, educational, legal) responses to Chicano presence. Letter grading.
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