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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course surveys the scientific basis of climate change. In labs, discussions, activities, and lectures students analyze ice-core and atmospheric data, geologic and isotopic evidence, current climate records and models, future predictions, and human contributions to climate change. Students examine climatic influences of solarterrestrial cycles, the greenhouse effect, and the ocean/atmosphere system. They assess synergy among these systems and volcanoes, glaciers, ice, El Niño, drought, fire, and the biosphere to discover climate feedbacks and tipping points. A persistent theme in the course is the way old and new energy technologies relate to Earth's carbon cycle. Students explore the predicted impact of global climate change on weather, water resources, ecological, and human systems. They investigate the potential for easing collective and personal effects on the climate and also examine actions that could help sustain stable climate and living systems.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course explores the nature and complexity of racial and ethnic diversity in U.S. society. Using current developments in ethnic studies scholarship, we will examine the social construction of race and ethnicity, theories of prejudice, and a historical overview of various ethnic and racial groups. The course concludes with a comparative analysis of the intersection between race, class, and gender. ES 101 and ES 102 do not have to be taken in sequence. May be offered through Distance Learning.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course explores the nature and complexity of racial and ethnic diversity in U.S. society. Using current developments in ethnic studies scholarship, we will examine multiple sources of discrimination, and how discrimination impacts self and society. We will also review the contemporary and experiences and issues facing various ethnic and racial groups. The course concludes with strategies for overcoming exclusion. ES 101 and ES 102 do not have to be taken in sequence. May be offered through Distance Learning.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course focuses on the historical origins of the largest Latino population in the U.S. The course begins with an exploration of the consequences of contact between the different worldviews of Mesoamericans and Europeans, and examines how Mexican natives and mestizos came to be viewed as 'foreigners' in their ancestral homeland. Throughout the course, we will review historical and contemporary indigenous cultural survival efforts.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course examines the efforts of Mexican Americans to achieve equality and self-determination through the twentieth century. Special attention will be paid to the emergence of multiple ideological and culturally nationalistic social justice movements that evolved into a unifying Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 70s. Finally, this course explores the continuing evolution and emergence of contemporary Chicano/Latino social justice movements.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course explores the historical and contemporary identity/cultural issues affecting the largest Latino communities in the United States. We will review theories of ethnic identity development, as well as the social and political construction of 'race'. This course also examines how U.S. foreign policy in Latin America has influenced perceptions within and outside of the Latino community. Finally, we review the use of pan-ethnic labels and their function in the construction of an all-encompassing Hispanic Nation.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits The focus of this course is on African, Afro-European, Afro-Native American, Caribbean, South and North American Maroon societies. In this course we examine various cultural constructs through which Africans in America understand and influence the world. The chronology of this course encompasses Dynastic Egypt, pre- European Conquest Africa, pre-Columbian America, to Post Reconstruction America 1877. ES 221, 222, and 223 examine culture, identity, gender and women's roles, economics, and African and Native American responses to systematic oppression towards goals of individual and group liberation. May be offered through Distance Learning.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course examines African, Afro-European, Afro-Native American, and African-American contributions to various liberation movements in the Americas. We examine various cultural constructs through which Africans in the Americas understand and influence the world. The chronology of this course encompasses Post-Reconstruction America to the end of World War II. ES 221, 222, and 223 examine culture, identity, gender and women's roles, economics, and African and Native American responses to systematic oppression towards goals of individual and group liberation. May be offered through Distance Learning.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Contemporary African, Afro-European, Afro-Native American, Caribbean, and Africans in South and North America are examined in this course. The chronology of this course encompasses World War II to the present and confronts issues such as prison incarceration rates, the 'War on Drugs', Affirmative Action backlash, and Multiculturalism, as well as the cultural influences of gospel, jazz, rock and roll, and liberation movements. ES 221, 222, and 223 examine culture, identity, gender and women's roles, economics, and African and Native American responses to systematic oppression towards goals of individual and group liberation. May be offered through Distance Learning. First and Second Generations .................................................. 4 credits This course will focus primarily on the experiences of first-and second-generation Asian Pacific Americans through personal narratives, historical texts, documentaries, essays, and creative works. Material will cover a wide historical period, from the mid- 1800s through the present, and will include the experiences of individuals from a number of different groups, comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences of their experiences.
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