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CH S 380 CHICANO LITERATRE - (10491-SU2021)
This course will introduce students to literature produced by Chicana/o writers. In this class, we will focus on reading various modes of literary forms, which include narrative, poetry and drama. As interpretative lenses to understanding this literature, we will also draw from socio-historical criticism, critical textual analysis, and literary theory. Additionally, we will use a cultural studies framework to examine these Chicana/o literary productions. In doing so, we will engage with various disciplines including history, feminism, and gender studies. The readings, videos and discussions in the course are grounded in a Chicana/o literary canon as well as Chicana/o and Latina/o historical and theoretical frameworks of analysis that emphasize social justice. Some of the themes covered in this course are: (im) migrant experiences, Chicana feminisms, solidarity, land, identity and the borderlands. Fundamental to our understanding of these literary texts will be our continued discussions of culture and its critical connections to ethnicity, race, class and sexuality. (Available for General Education, Arts and Humanities as well as the Arts, Media and Culture GE Path).
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CH S 445 HIST OF CHICANO - (10495-SU2021)
History of the Mexican people in the U.S. presented in the context of American history and government. Examines American institutions and ideals as developed by the framers of the U.S. and California constitutions and how they have affected the role of the Mexican American in U.S. society. Available for graduate credit. (Available for General Education, D3/D4 Constitution of the United States/State and Local Government.)
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HIST 541 MOD EUR HIST - (13062-SP2021)
The philosopher Kant once defined being “enlightened” as “thinking for yourself.” Explore the eighteenth-century phenomenon called the Enlightenment by reading authors like Kant, Rousseau, and Voltaire who questioned tradition and authority by trying to think for themselves. After engaging with great books from the period in the first half of the course, investigate how historians have thought about the Enlightenment. Is it best understood as a unified movement that advocated solutions to problems? Or is it better thought of as a number of open-ended debates in which the questions are more important than the answers? Does the Enlightenment still matter today? If so, why?