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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Examines unique and transnational cultural values represented in novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and film from Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Develops the capability to understand, analyze, interpret, and appreciate literature and diverse cultural forms, including film, as artistic and cultural representation. Meets the Subject Matter Requirement for the Multiple Subject Teaching Credential for English/Literature. (Offered every semester.) Units 3 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A)
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4.00 Credits
Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Introduces literary analysis through readings of selected American writers. Examines these writers' cultural heritage and traditions. Develops analytical and critical reading ability of literature through discussion of themes, characters, techniques, images, and structures. Explores the symbiotic relationship between literature and film in transmitting cultural values. (Offered every semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A)
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3.00 Credits
Effective Aug 25, 2008 View History Description: Afro Cuba Hip Hop - Music and Dance in the Black Atlantic: A course about the social history of music and dance forms from throughout the African Diaspora. Students learn specific styles from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the United States including Afro-Cuban liturgical dance, rumba, salsa, samba, and hip hop. Practice enriches theory, as students actually dance the music they study. By the end of the course students will become familiar with basic concepts in African Diaspora music and dance (e.g., call and response, improvisation, etc.), be able to identify and analyze trends therein and have developed a choreography based on the movements taught in class. Fulfills ULR outcomes in Lit and Pop Culture and Creative and Artistic Expression. Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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6.00 Credits
Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: A multicultural literature course that focuses on poetry as artistic and cultural representation. Students read works by poets of many cultures, watch poets read and talk about their work on video, and create their own original poetry. Students develop the tools to do literary and cultural analysis of poetry, as well as write their own poems. (Offered every semester.) Units 6 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A)
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4.00 Credits
Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Introduces the craft of writing poetry and fiction. Students learn the basic tools to write about the environment. Cross-cultural readings and workshop format. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A)
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3.00 Credits
Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Examines the creative process and its application to social action. Uses guest writers and artists from local communities, videos, fieldtrips, and cross-cultural readings to understand and analyze creativity and social action. Students produce collaborative creative projects. (Offered every two years.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A)
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3.00 Credits
Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Traces the history of cross-cultural contact in the North American continent from the colonial period to the present. The course focuses on the formation and evolution of American cultures and identities, emanating from the lived experiences of everyday people. Students explore these histories using an interdisciplinary framework of United States multicultural heritages. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A)
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3.00 Credits
Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Introduces the basic concepts and perspectives in multicultural feminisms with special emphasis on the changing status of women in relationship to the U.S. and California Constitutions and political life. This learning experience provides the opportunity for students to develop analyses of the current political conditions for women and to strategize their own political participation in relation to these conditions. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A)
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4.00 Credits
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History Description: Examines and compares the political experiences, cultural practices, and literary expressions of diverse Latino populations in the U.S. Topics include immigration, citizenship, demographics, work, religion, education, language, gender, and cultural rights. Readings include ethnographies, histories, novels, and films. Students design political projects. Crosslisted with SBS 244. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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3.00 Credits
Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Introduces students to the historical experiences of Chicana/Chicano communities in the United States and in transnational context. Students develop their skills of interpretation and analysis as they reconsider the span of U.S. history, movements for justice and equality, and the daily experiences of communities of color in the Americas. (Offered every semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A)
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