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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey lecture course on historical development of Mexican (Chicano) community and people of Mexican descent (Indio-Mestizo-Mulato) north of Rio through 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with special focus on labor and politics. Provides integrated understanding of change over time in Mexican community by inquiry into major formative historical forces affecting community. Social structure, economy, labor, culture, political organization, conflict, and international relations. Emphasis on social forces, class analysis, social, economic, and labor conflict, ideas, domination, and resistance. Developments related to historical events of significance occurring both in U.S. and Mexico. Lectures, special presentations, reading assignments, written examinations, library and field research, and submission of paper. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey lecture course on historical development of Mexican (Chicano) community and people of Mexican descent in U.S. through 20th century, with special focus on labor and politics. Provides integrated understanding of change over time in Mexican community by inquiry into major formative historical and policy issues affecting community. Within framework of domination and resistance, discussion deals with social structure, economy, labor, culture, political organization, conflict, and ideology. Developments related to historical events of significance occurring both in U.S. and Mexico. Lectures, special presentations, reading assignments, written examinations, library and/or field research, and submission of paper. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours; fieldwork at Venice High School, four hours. Preparation: two years of college or university Spanish. Students are paired with one or more English as a Second Language (ESL) Venice High students and converse for two hours in Spanish and two hours in English. Topics for Spanish portion provided in APS manual; topics for English exchange selected by ESL teacher. Encounters form basis for student compositions and oral reports and supply part of raw data for learner's journal. Review of key areas of Spanish grammar to allow UCLA students to improve language skills, increase knowledge of Latino community and new immigrant Latino youth, and help Venice students improve their English. Some discussions concern U.S. culture, importance of higher education, student adaptation to life in U.S., and stimulation of their interest in higher education. 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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5.00 Credits
(Formerly numbered M170.) (Same as Honors Collegium M128SL and Spanish M172SL.) Seminar, four hours; field project, four to six hours. Recommended requisite: Spanish 100A. In-depth study of various topics related to literacy, including different definitions of literacy, programs for adult preliterates, literacy and gender, approaches to literacy (whole language, phonics, Freire's liberation pedagogy), history of writing systems, phoneme as basis for alphabetic writing, and national literacy campaigns. Required field project involving Spanish-speaking adults in adult literacy programs. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Anthropology M172V.) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 10A or 10B or Anthropology 9. Culture change theory encompasses such issues as innovation, syncretism, colonialism, modernization, urbanization, migration, and acculturation. Examination of methods anthropologists/ethnographers use in studying and analyzing culture change within ethnohistorical background of Mexican and Mexican American people to clarify social and cultural origins of modern habits and customs and, more importantly, unravel various culture change threads of that experience. Topics include technology and evolution, Indian nation-states, miscegenation, peasantry, expansionism, industrialization, immigration, ethnicity, and adaptation. Field project on some aspect of culture change required. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Afro-American Studies M173 and Labor and Workplace Studies M173.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Overview of nonviolence and its impact on social movements both historically and in its present context in contemporary society, featuring lectures, conversations, films, readings, and guest speakers. Exploration of some historic contributions of civil rights struggles and role of nonviolent action throughout recent U.S. history. Examination of particular lessons of nonviolent movements as they impact social change organizing in Los Angeles. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, one hour; discussion, three hours. Designed for students who want to learn principles of dialogue and mediation, as alternatives to violence, and practice how to apply them in educational settings. In Progress (M174A) and letter (M174B) grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Introduction to Chicana art and artists. Examination of Chicana aesthetic. Chicana artists have developed unique experience and identity as artists and Chicanas. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. History, construction, and representation of whiteness in American society. Readings and discussions trace evolution of "white" identity and explore its significanceto historical construction of race class in American history. Letter grading.
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