| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
level |
department Chicana and Chicano Studies (X) |
Introduction to the historical and contemporary development of the Chicano/a community. Course is interdisciplinary in nature. Focuses by quarter on A. history, B. gender, and C. culture.
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Introduction to the historical and contemporary development of the Chicano/a community. Course is interdisciplinary in nature. Focuses by quarter on A. history, B. gender, and C. culture.
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Introduction to the historical and contemporary development of the Chicano/a community. Course is interdisciplinary in nature. Focuses by quarter on A. history, B. gender, and C. culture.
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An introduction to Aztec culture from its mythological origins to contact with Europe. Consideration of statecraft, religion, art, and science from historical and archeological perspectives.
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An introduction to the reading of sixteenth-century Nahuatl documents. Emphasis is on language acquisition, with some reference made to indigenous codices.
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An introduction to ancient Maya culture through its history recovered from hieroglyphic texts. Emphasis is on political history, but religion, art, and science are considered as well.
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An introduction to the classic Maya hieroglyphic writing system. Treatment balances language acquisition with methods for interpreting hieroglphic records.
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Laboratory accompanying Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. Explores the various methods and media of hieroglphic writing.
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The course will introduce students to Chicano Spanish and helps them to improve oral and written skills, distinguish between standard speech and popular variants, and to learn the Chicano Spanish lexicon.
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Introduces U.S. third world feminism from an interdisciplinary perspective. Explores that movement's cultural, political, and artistic rise to prominence. Identifies a coalitional consciousness that crosses differing nations, genders, races, sexualities, classes, and cultures as expressed by the international political class "women-of-color."
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Lecture is concurrent with Chicana/o Studies 51, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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Independent study under the guidance of a faculty member in the department. Course offers students the opportunity to undertake independentstudy or work in a group.
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Consumption of popular culture in relation to U.S. ethnic identity with an emphasis on telenovelas, "border" films, U.S. Spanish-language music sales, etc.
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How language politics are magnified in public policy, public culture, and the mainstream media; how accents work to racialize Latinos.
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How Chicana/o scholars position themselves within the interdisciplinary field of transnational literature as ethnic U.S. subjects; reviews patterns and scholarship of transnational migration, media, mothering, etc.
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The changing relationship between indigenous people and the state. Compare the differences and similarities between indigenous peoples' mobilizations in the cases of Canada, USA, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Bolivia and Mexico.
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Using Chicano studies topics, the course will introduce students to: (1) the epistemology of scientific inquiry (its history and contemporary movements); (2) the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative and qualitative methodologies; and (3) the mechanisms of research design (transforming an idea into a research plan).
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"Minority discourses" employ in various modes what can be defined at "the theories and methodologies of the oppressed." What are these theories and methods, and how are they encoded in literature theory, ideology, and popular culture?
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Introduction to the various modes, techniques, terminologies, and methodologies fundamental to cultural studies.
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To give the student an understanding of the fundamentals of psychology; to introduce the fundamentals of child psychology; and to analyze and discuss pertinent psychological principles and research related to the Chicano child.
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Explores ancient Mesoamerican mythology in both its indigenous and modern Chicana representations from archeological, historical, and Chicano perspectives. Emphasizes consideration of the various forms by which mythologies are maintained.
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Introduction to public and private art in Mesoamerican cultures. Considers the social and political place of artists and their products. Focus is on the classic Maya, but the course surveys Olmec, Teotihuacano, Mixtec, and Aztec art as well.
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Course begins with a comparison of the meanings of mestizaje in colonial and modern times. We then look at case studies from classic and postclassic Mesoamerica that both coroborate and extend our understanding of this cultural phenomenon.
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Explores examples of public and site-specific artwork created by Chicano/Latino artists challenging museum and gallery spaces. The history of displacement and marginalization traditionally suffered by Chicano/Latino communities had lead these artists to create public art as a form of decolonization.
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After visiting the Chicana/Latino museum and gallery spaces, the lab supports students in producing their own public and site-specific artwork. Other students describe, arrange, and curate a gallery showing by the end of the quarter.
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