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CHICANO STUDIES (CHIC)
College of Liberal Arts
Chicano & Latino Studies
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CHIC
1102
- Latinos in the United States: Culture and Citizenship
(HIS, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; fall, every year)
Historical/cultural knowledge on the complex/multi-layered relationship that Latinos have to the U.S., their country of origin. Influence of social, cultural, and political dynamics on Latino identity, politics, and sense of belonging in the U.S. Cultural citizenship.
CHIC
1102H
- Latinos in the United States: Culture and Citizenship
(HIS, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; =[01061]; A-F only, fall, every year)
Historical/cultural knowledge on the complex/multi-layered relationship that Latinos have to the U.S., their country of origin. Influence of social, cultural, and political dynamics on Latino identity, politics, and sense of belonging in the U.S. Cultural citizenship.
CHIC
1112
- Introduction to Chicana/o Studies: Critical Paradigms
(DSJ)
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Prevailing paradigms of analysis, methodologies of research, and guiding theoretical concepts that have shaped Chicano studies. Chicano history, culture, and meanings, including migration, repatriation, community formation, Chicano movement. Contemporary trends in art and culture.
CHIC
1201
- Racial Formation and Transformation in the United States
(DSJ)
(3.0 cr; =[01688]; fall, every year)
How aggrieved racialized groups struggle over identity, culture, place, and meaning. Histories of racialization. Strategies toward rectification of historical injustices from dispossession, slavery, exploitation, and exclusion.
CHIC
1275
- Service Learning in the Chicano/Latino Community
(CIV)
(3.0 cr; =[CHIC 3275]; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Normative/applied ethics used to reflect on personal/societal responsibilities and to analyze U.S. educational systems. Institutional/social constraints on equitable educational opportunities for Chicano/Latino students. Models of inclusive/just education. Students tutor/mentor Chicanos/Latinos, dialogue with Chicano/Latino educators.
CHIC
1401
- Introduction to Dance
(3.0 cr; =[DNCE 1401]; fall, spring, every year)
Modern dance, ballet, and world dance, primarily in the 20th century. Dance forms, choreographers, and dance issues. Lecture, discussion, viewing of live/taped performance.
CHIC
1901
- Freshman Seminar
(3.0 cr; Prereq-freshman; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
CHIC
1902
- Freshman Seminar
(DSJ)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Fr; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
CHIC
1905
- Freshman Seminar
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Freshman; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
CHIC
1907W
- Freshman Seminar
(WI)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Fr; A-F only, fall, every year)
Topic specified in Class Schedule.
CHIC
1908W
- Freshman Seminar
(WI)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-freshman; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
CHIC
3208
- Mexico On My Mind
(AH, GP)
(3.0 cr; =[02026]; fall, spring, every year)
Images of art from Pre-Columbian cultures to modern Mexico/Chicano art in United States. How Mexico/its people have represented themselves/been represented by others. Role images play in community, national, international politics through history.
Effective: Spring 2014
CHIC
3212
- Chicana Studies: La Chicana in Contemporary Society
(AH, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; =[01049]; fall, spring, every year)
Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.
CHIC
3213
- Chicano Music and Art
(AH, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
Survey of diverse forms of cultural expressiveness in Mexican American music/art. History of various types of artistic production and musical forms in their regional specificity. Social/economic implications of several genres, styles, and traditions.
CHIC
3221
- Introduction to Chicana/o Cultural Studies: Barrio Culture and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
(AH, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Cultural studies approach to investigating aesthetic dimensions of experience that inform and are informed by dynamic relationship between culture, class, ethnicity, and power.
CHIC
3223
- Chicana/o and Latina/o Representation in Film
(AH, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o visual representation. Depiction of Latina/o experience, history, and culture in film. Analyzing independent/commercial films as texts that illuminate deeply held beliefs around race, class, ethnicity, gender, and national origin.
CHIC
3275
- Service Learning in the Chicano/Latino Community
(CIV)
(3.0 cr; =[CHIC 1275]; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Normative/applied ethics used to reflect on personal/societal responsibilities and to analyze U.S. educational systems. Institutional/social constraints on equitable educational opportunities for Chicano/Latino students. Models of inclusive/just education. Students tutor/mentor Chicanos/Latinos, dialogue with Chicano/Latino educators.
CHIC
3352
- Transnational Chicana/o Theory: Global Views/Borderland Spaces
(3.0 cr; fall, even years)
Demographic realities, political/economic shifts, cultural exchanges that characterize U.S.-Mexico borderland spaces in global economy. Historically contextualized, transnational approach to cultures, politics, and economics of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Dnamics of borderland spaces.
CHIC
3374
- Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy
(CIV)
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Laws, legislation, and policies, effects on everyday life. Strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How we produce, distribute, and consume food. Moral/ethical dilemma of consuming cheap food.
CHIC
3375
- Folklore of Greater Mexico
(DSJ)
(3.0 cr; fall, spring, every year)
Scholarly survey and exploration of the sociocultural function of various types of folklore in Greater Mexico. Ways in which folklore constructs and maintains community, as well as resists and engenders cultural shifts.
CHIC
3423
- Central American Revolutions
(3.0 cr; =[HIST 3423]; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Social, political, and economic issues that have shaped Central American history for nearly two centuries. Colonial histories, capitalist development, ethnic/racial conflict, foreign intervention, Catholic Church, civil war throughout region. Readings/discussions cover events in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
CHIC
3425
- History of Modern Mexico
(3.0 cr; =[HIST 3425]; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Mexico, from independence to present. Struggles for land, liberty, and equality. Ethnicity, gender and class. Economic growth, nationalism, and globalization. Urbanization, immigration, demographic transition.
CHIC
3444
- Chicana and Chicano History: 1821-1945
(HIS, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; =[HIST 3441, HIST 3444, LAS 3441]; fall, every year)
Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the United States. Important eras in histories of Mexico, the United States, and Mexican Americans. Central role of Chicana/os in U.S. history, culture, and politics.
CHIC
3446
- Chicana/o History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium
(HIS, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, changing demographics. Social, economic, and political changes that influenced day-to-day life of Mexican Americans. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans and other Latino groups.
CHIC
3452
- Xicana/Indigena Studies: History, Culture, and Politics
(DSJ)
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Historical, cultural, and political processes impacting Chicanas/os and their understanding of being
indigenous to the North American continent. History, culture, and identity formation as dynamic processes intimately related to present and future constructions of Mexican American identities and sociopolitical perspectives.
CHIC
3507W
- Introduction to Chicana/o Literature
(LITR, DSJ, WI)
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3507W]; fall, spring, every year)
Cultural, intellectual, and sociopolitical traditions of Mexican Americans as they are represented in creative literature. Genres/forms of creative cultural expression and their significance as representations of social, cultural, and political life in the United States. Novels, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, essay, poetry, and hybrid forms of literature.
CHIC
3672
- Chicana/o Experience in the Midwest
(DSJ)
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Experiences of people generally defined as Chicano or Latino, living in the Midwest. Individual/group identity. Focuses on construction of Chicano-Latino experience. How identity affirmation, migration stories, immigration status, historical memory, and cultural traditions are impacted by being in the Midwest.
CHIC
3752
- Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society
(DSJ)
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Introduction to sociological analysis of theoretical/methodological approaches to Chicano/a and Latina/o communities. Socioeconomic conditions, education, cultural change, the family, gender relations, political experiences. Theories, issues, methods of sociological research. Debates regarding qualitative/quantitative research methods.
CHIC
3771
- Latino Social Power and Social Movements in the U.S.
(3.0 cr; fall, offered periodically)
How Latinos have collectively resisted social domination. Theories of social power/movements. Resistance by Latinos during 60s/70s. Current organized efforts to curb immigration, establish English as official language, and limit immigrant rights.
CHIC
3852
- Chicana/o Politics
(SOCS, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; =[POL 3752]; fall, spring, every year)
Theory/practice of Chicana/o politics through an analysis of Mexican American experience, social agency, and response to larger political systems and behaviors using social science methods of inquiry. Unequal power relations, social justice, and the political economy.
CHIC
3862
- American Immigration History
(HIS, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; =[AAS 3862, HIST 3862]; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin American, and Africa, from early 19th century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.
CHIC
3888
- Immigration and the U.S. Latina/o Experience: Diaspora, Identity, and Community
(HIS, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; =[HIST 3445]; fall, every year)
Experiences of migrants from Latin America to the United States in 20th/21st century. Migrant engagements with US society. Pre-existing Latina/o and other ethnic communities. experiences within political, economic, and social aspects of life at local/global level.
CHIC
3900
- Topics in Chicano Studies
(3.0 cr [max 6.0 cr]; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Topics vary by section of course.
CHIC
3993
- Directed Studies
(1.0 - 9.0 cr [max 16.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Guided individual reading, research, and study. Students often do preliminary readings and research in conjunction with plans for education abroad programs.
CHIC
4231
- The Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, and Chicanos in the United States
(3.0 cr; =[AFRO 4231, AMIN 4231, AAS 4231]; fall, offered periodically)
Examination of the structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.
CHIC
4232
- Chicana/o - Latina/o Gender and Sexuality Studies
(AH, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; fall, spring, odd years)
Critical thinking of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os around construction of gender. Politics of sexual identity. How the self is gendered in relationship to sexual, racial, class, and national identities under different social structural conditions. Way in which the "borders" that define/confine sexual norms shift over time.
CHIC
4275
- Theory in Action: Community Engagement in a Social Justice Framework
(CIV)
(3.0 cr; fall, every year)
Theoretical frameworks of social justice and community engagement for work outside classroom with/in Latina/o community. Worker issues/organizing. Placements in unions, worker organizations. Policy initiatives on labor issues. Students reflect on their own identity development, social location, and position of power/privilege.
CHIC
4401
- Chicana/Latina Cultural Studies
(3.0 cr; =[00665]; fall, offered periodically)
Diversity of cultures that are called "Hispanic"; women in these cultures; Chicanas and Latinas living in the United States or migrating from their home nations to the United States.
CHIC
4901W
- Senior Paper
(WI)
(3.0 cr; A-F only, spring, every year)
Capstone experience. Students produce original research paper or creative project on a topic determined in consultation with a faculty adviser.
CHIC
5374
- Migrant Farmworkers in the U.S.: Families, Work, and Advocacy
(CIV)
(3.0 cr; =[01146]; spring, every year)
Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.
CHIC
5920
- Topics in Chicana(o) Studies
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Sr or grad student; fall, spring, every year)
Multidisciplinary themes in Chicana(o) studies. Issues of current interest.
CHIC
5993
- Directed Studies
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 16.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Guided individual reading, research, and study for completion of the requirements for a senior paper or honors thesis.
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