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4.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Writing sample required on first day of class; access to course Web page mandatory; need not be bilingual to enroll. Technical instruction, analysis, and theoretical discussion of bilingual creative expression, with focus on specific genre (i.e., autobiography, poetry, fiction). Emphasis on memory, identity, gender, and sexuality. Central theme of bilingualism as politics and aesthetics. Peer critique of weekly writing assignments. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
(Same as English M179B.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Variable specialized studies course in Chicana/Chicano literature. Topics include labor and literature; Chicana/ Chicano visions of Los Angeles; immigration, migration, and exile; autobiography and historical change; Chicana/Chicano journalism; literary New Mexico; specific literary genres. May be repeated for credit. P/ NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Women's Studies M144.) Lecture, four hours. Course on women's movements and feminism in Latin America and Caribbean to examine diverse social movements and locations from which women have launched political and gender struggles. Discussion of forms of feminism and women's consciousness that have emerged out of indigenous rights movements, environmental struggles, labor movements, Christian-based communities, peasant and rural organizing, and new social movements that are concerned with race, sexuality, feminism, and human rights. Through comparative study of women's movements in diversity of political systems as well as national and transnational arenas, students gain understanding of historical contexts and political conditions that give rise to women's resistance, as well as major debates in field of study. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: Spanish 25 or 27. Introduction to texts representative of Chicano literary heritage. Sampling of genres, as well as historical and geographical settings and points of view characteristic of work written by Chicanos during 20th century. Most required reading is in Spanish. Bilingual and English works are included and discussed. Reading and analysis of number of important scholarly and critical statements pertaining to characteristics and development of Chicano literary corpus. Letter grading. M145A. Literature to 1960; M145B. Literature after 1960.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Introduction to major narrative genres in Chicana/Chicano literary tradition - Corrido, Semblanza, chronicle, autobiography, novel, romance, and satire. Emphasis on way in which narrative forms are formed by and address specific social/historical problems. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Feminist theories of transnational organizing. Examination of gender and race as central to processes of globalization and essential to economic and political struggles encompassed in transnational power relations. Exploration of how questions of race and gender influence global economic policies and impact local actors and their communities. In time when people, capital, cultures, and technologies cross national borders with growing frequency, discussion of process of accelerated globalization has been linked to feminization of labor and migration, environmental degradation, questions of diaspora, sexuality, and cultural displacement, as well as growing global militarization. Problems and issues created by globalization and cultural, social, and political responses envisioned by transnational organizing. P/ NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Women's Studies M132B.) Lecture, two and one-half hours. Requisite: Women's Studies 10. Overview of conditions facing Chicanas in U.S., including issues on family, immigration, reproduction, employment conditions. Comparative analysis with other Latinas. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of history and social conditions of Latinos in Los Angeles as well as nationally, with particular emphasis on their location in larger social structure and on comparisons with other minority groups. Topics include migration, family, education, and work issues. 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 M156A. Expansion of research conducted by students in course M156A 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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