Year: 2018

Surveys Latinx participation in Hip-Hop and Reggaetón with a focus on female artists, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and U.S. urban centers. Students will approach texts, lyrics, performance, and social issues from multiple disciplinary perspectives. 

Introduces students to various interdisciplinary and transnational literatures on the study of Chican@s & Latin@s in the U.S.  Offers a survey of scholarly literature, paradigms, theories, and debates within the field pertaining to the historical, …

Introduces students to various interdisciplinary and transnational literatures on the study of Chican@s & Latin@s in the U.S.  Offers a survey of scholarly literature, paradigms, theories, and debates within the field pertaining to the historical, …

This course engages both historical and present-day debates surrounding immigration and crime. Emphases include: (1) theories of migration and criminal behavior; (2) the motivation for, and effectiveness of, immigration enforcement; (3) the increasing use of …

This course explores the intersection of ethnicity, race, and justice including: 1) racial and ethnic relations in society 2) racial and ethnic differences in crime and violence, 3) racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal …

This service-learning course trains students who aspire to one of the helping, health, or mental health professions and who currently work or who plan to serve Latin@ populations. The course provides important frameworks for working …

Critically examines the history of labor and working people in the Americas, from the colonial era to the present, focusing on the experience of the United States and Mexico, offering a comparative perspective on their …

Examines major concerns in Chicana Studies including the social construction of social relations, the intersection of gender with other identities, cultural mestizaje, and sexuality. Analyzes issues of concern among Chicanas and within Chicana studies including …

Explores the social construction of Whiteness in the U.S. from its origin in colonization to the contemporary period. A major focus of the class will be tracing the evolution of race, and through the lens …

Examines Race, ethnicity, and religion as political factors; cultural pluralism, politics, and policy in the United States and selected other multi-cultural politics.