Courses

CHICLA/CURRIC 201

Introduction to Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies

Instructors: Megan Bailon, Armando Ibarra. T & Th 1:00 pm-2:15 pm, MWF 11:00 am-11:50 am

Political, historical, and cultural aspects of how Chicanx/e, Mexican American, and Latinx/e students have experienced K-12 education in the U.S. Provides an overview of the extent to which K-12 educational policies, programs, and practices help explain the schooling experiences and educational achievement of Chicanx/e, Mexican American, and Latinx/e children in the U.S. context. While their education is typically characterized in terms of (a) language background and linguistic difference and (b) the immigrant experience, provides an intersectional framing that will challenge assumptions about factors related to language and immigrant status that can often drive oversimplified explanations for this population’s perceived educational underperformance.

CHICLA 215

Border and Migration Studies of Latinx America

Instructor: Victor Goldgel-Carballo
T & Th 2:25 pm – 3:15 pm

Drawing from cultural studies, border studies, migration and race theory, explores through cultural and literary texts the social and political issues regarding migration, contact zones, transculturation, and/or diaspora. Considers the various meanings of the word “border” or “frontera”. What is a border geographically speaking? What does it mean in political and legal terms? How do we conceive the border in cultural, literary, linguistic, political, judicial, and personal ways? What is like to live on the border or on the margins? It is said that the border is a contact zone, a meeting point, a way to transfer and share information, an invitation to (in)tolerance and ex/inclusion. Read texts from history, politics, cultural anthropology, literature, and theatre to grasp the vast understanding of what is life on the border. Focus on the humanities, paying close attention to how visual artists (theater, performance, documentaries) understand and confront life on the border.

CHICLA/SPANISH 222

Introduction to Latinx Cultures

Instructor: Rubén Medina
MW  9:55am – 10:45am

Offers an introduction to the culture and history of the Mexican and Latin American origin people in the United States. Emphasis on diversity, emergence of new imagined communities, and cultural hybridity. Focusing on key issues such as U.S. imperial expansion, colonialism, nation and community formations, migration, urban spaces, and the dynamics of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, study a range of socio-political, historical, literary, and artistic expressions that inform the whole process of culture and reveal the way Latinos and Latinas negotiate their presence, cultural difference, and creativity in the U.S.

CHICLA 328

Cultures and Histories Topics in Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies

Instructor: Megan Bailon
T & Th 9:30 am – 10:45 pm
Requisites: Sophomore standing

Tracing the Threads of Latinidad

How can cloth and clothing hold gendered histories, labor, and political resistance? Traces the connections among thread, cloth, and body across various forms of Latinx/e cultural expression. Using textile-related cultural production as a lens, explores the intersecting spheres of domestic crafting, mending, and creating; fashion design; and the global garment industry. Analyzes visual art, short stories, poetry, theater & performance, documentaries, and wearable or usable crafts to examine gendered modes of knowledge production, Latinx/e experiences of global labor regimes, textile-based forms of resistance, and self-fashioning vs. the commodification of creativity. 

CHICLA 329

Education & Service Topics in Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies

Instructor: Aurora Santiago Ortiz
T 2:30pm-5:00pm
Requisites: Sophomore standing

Community-Based Research

Introduces students to the fundamental principles of community-based research. Offers knowledge and skills in community-based research that emphasize the importance of reciprocity, ethical commitments, and pluriversal knowledge when engaging with diverse Latino/e/a/x populations. Learn about various forms of CBR, such as participatory action research, asset mapping, and photovoice as methods that center social justice and liberatory goals.  

CHICLA 330

Social Science Topics in Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies

Instructor: Falina Enriquez
T & Th 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Requisites: Sophomore standing

Language and Latinidades.

Learn about linguistic anthropological theories that help us understand the formation of national, regional, and diasporic Latin American identities (latinidades). Compare how latinidades are created, represented, and practiced through conceptualizing language as a verbal, sonic, visual, and textual medium. Discuss the multiple, often contradictory processes that inform the creation and contestation of latinidades in various geographic and historical settings. Themes that will orient our conservation include bilingualism, colonialism, transnationalism, and linguistic discrimination.

CHICLA 330

Social Science Topics in Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies

Instructor: Almita Miranda
T & Th 1:00pm – 2:15pm
Requisites: Sophomore standing

Latinx/e in the Midwest.

Examines the histories of different Latinx communities in midwestern states (Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa and Ohio) through ethnographies, archival sources, film, and media analysis

CHICLA/ ED POL 342

Education across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance

Instructor: Diana Rodríguez-Gómez
T & Th 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Requisites: Sophomore Standing

Examines educational inequality across the Americas through the lens of imperialism, different forms of colonialism, and capitalism. By examining the logics and actions of different education stakeholders, it critically examines how educational policy across the hemisphere has a shared history of oppression and contestation.

CHICLA/ ED POL 347

Race, Ethnicity and Media

Instructor: Diana Leon-Boys
MW 9:55-10:45am

Introduction to the changing images of race and ethnicity in U.S. entertainment media and popular culture. Surveys history, key concepts and contemporary debates regarding mediated representation of ethnic minorities. Critical and cultural studies approaches are emphasized.

CHICLA/SOC/LEGAL STUDIES 443

Immigration, Crime, and Enforcement

Instructor: Michael Light
M & W 4:00pm – 5:15pm

Prerequisites: C&E SOC/​SOC  140, 210, 211, SOC 181, FOLKLORE/​AFROAMER/​AMER IND/​ASIAN AM/​CHICLA  102, CHICLA 201, CHICLA 210,  POLI SCI/​CHICLA  231, HISTORY/​CHICLA/​GEN&WS  245, LEGAL ST/​SOC  131, or POLI SCI/​LEGAL ST  217.

Engages historical and present-day debates surrounding immigration and crime. Emphases include: (1) theories of migration and criminal behavior; (2) immigration enforcement; (3) the use of criminal justice tools in border enforcement, and; (4) the experiences of living undocumented in the United States. Focus on Latinx/e immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border.

CHICLA/SOC/LEGAL STUDIES 469

Topics in Latinx Culture

Instructor: Rubén Medina
MWF 1:20-2:10pm

Latinx Migration to the US

Focuses on the cultural evolution of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, and other U.S. Latinos in relation to their countries of origin. Topics vary.

Taught in Spanish.