CHICAN@ AND LATIN@ SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE U.S.

CHICLA/CURRIC 321

Addresses the ways Chican@s/Latin@s in contemporary U.S. society have engaged in social, cultural, political, and ideological struggles for educational justice. Begins with a broad overview of educational issues and examines major social movements, legal cases, and local and national efforts that have established important precedents. Focus on different enactments of resistance, struggle, resilience, self-determination, and educational justice and focus on how these precedents and enactments pertain to teaching, learning, and curriculum practices that reflect key tenets of educational justice for Chican@/Latin@ students.

CHICLA 530

Topics vary each semester, but may include history, literature, media, political science, culture, social work, etc., as they relate to Chicana/os and Latina/os in the United States.

CHICLA 201

Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Chicanas/os in the United States. Become acquainted with recent scholarly literature, paradigms, theories, and debates within Chicana/o studies pertaining to the historical, economic, cultural, and sociopolitical dimensions of the Chicana/o experience in the United States.

CHICLA/GEN&WS 334

Explores feminist activism in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Feminist activism, broadly construed, will be explored through ethnography, interviews, documentaries, public facing scholarship, among other forms of intellectual production. Applies transdisciplinary perspectives to consider work from a range of academic fields and topics to understand the major political, economic, and social issues framing feminist social movements across the Americas.

CHICLA 301

Examines the history of the making of a people from pre-hispanic time to the present. Examines how people of Mexican and Latin American descent in the United States have come to think of themselves as constituting a collectivity by examining the social, cultural, and political worlds of Chicana/os and Latina/os.