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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/ practicum, three hours. Group-oriented practicum to gather, record, and analyze languages spoken in Chicano community, using scientific methods. Development of research agenda and research instrument, gathering of actual speech and its analysis, and writing of final report under guidance of instructor. Student- selected research topics have included language use in barrio, media portrayals of Latinos, and societal and educational attitudes toward language use of Latinos. Introduction to oral history, sociolinguistic interviewing, and social science methodology. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: Spanish 4. Review of Spanish language literature, newsprint, radio, and television in U.S., providing for student development of academic skills in Spanish. Comparison with Spanish language mass media in other parts of world. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of language issues pertinent to educational systems, including language inequity, literacy, testing, and socialization, as well as institutional ideologies. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Introduction to pedagogy of Paulo Freire and examination of historical and contemporary problems circumscribing Chicana/Chicano education. Central focus to offer Freirian alternative to answer theoretical, methodological, practical, and policy questions about schooling of Chicanas/Chicanos in U.S. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Examination of systemic (mis)representations of Latinos by print media source ( Los Angeles Times) by means of critical discourse analysis and metaphor theory. Investigation of empirical basis for theories of racism in language in this context. Student projects range from immigration to education and crime to culture. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 168A. Study of multimodal (visual, graphic, spoken, audio, and text) images disseminated by television news programs to learn how nation comes to their understanding of Latinos. Development of critical visual interpretive acuity through semiotics training and analysis of actual television news stories. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Strongly recommended requisite: course 101. Introduction to different forms of representation of indigenous peoples and their presence in Americas, with emphasis on Mesoamerica and Andes. How indigenous images are expressed, perceived, and constructed at point of contact with Europeans during development of indigenismo and in current period. Discussion of how these relate to Chicana/Chicano identity construction. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Hegemonic humor directs laughter of more powerful people against those with less power. In this case laughter becomes weapon used against Latinos and immigrants. With rise of Latinos in last decade, there has been increase of various guises of anti-Latino hegemonic humor in commercial mass-mediated popular culture. Exploration of theorizing, as well as today's myriad examples, of such humor to develop critical literacy of social work it accomplishes. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of social welfare of Latinos (Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans) in U.S. through assessment and critical analysis of social policy issues affecting them. Survey of social, economic, cultural, and political circumstances affecting ability of Latinos to access public benefits and human services. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Survey of experiences of Latinas/Latinos with U.S. legal system. Examination of landmark appellate decisions and litigation efforts in jury service, voting rights, language, public accommodations, education, and other areas. Critical assessment of role of legal principles and litigation in improving Latina/Latino position within U.S. society. Letter grading.
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