LEARNING EXPERIENCES & FACILITATION: This course is designed to meet various learning styles. We will use the following to facilitate the course objectives:
Reading material
Lectures/ Films & Short Videos
In-class writing and participation activities
Quizzes
LEARNING EXPERIENCES & FACILITATION: This course is designed to meet various learning styles. We will use the following to facilitate the course objectives:
Reading material
Lectures/ Films & Short Videos
In-class writing and participation activities
Quizzes
Weekly Topics/ Lectures:
WEEKLY MODULES [For each module, the following topics will be covered] *SUBJECT TO CHANGE W/ SUFFICIENT NOTICE
MODULE 1 - [WEEKS 1&2]
8/22: Welcome, Introductions, Expectations, Syllabus Review
8/27: The Origins & Development of Chicana/o Studies: The Chicana/o Movement
8/29: Film & Discussion: Pride & Prejudice
MODULE 2 - [WEEKS 3&4]
9/3: Chicana/o Identity
9/5: Participation: Practice PCAR collaboration - Colorism within Latin@/Chican@ Communities
9/10: Manifest Destiny, Mexican-American War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
9/12: Participation: Chicana/o resistance and challenges to their Historical context [Film: Foreigners in their Own Land]
MODULE 3 - [WEEK 5&6]
9/17: Intergenerational trauma / Internalized Oppression
9/19: Participation: Applying GT & IO
9/24: Theoretical frameworks / Critical Race Theory
9/26: Participation: Reading Discussion & Application
MODULE 4 - [WEEK 7&8]
10/1: Artivism: Art as resistance
10/3: Participation: Artivism: Art as resistance
10/8: Artivism: Art as resistance
10/10: Film: The Cheech
MODULE 5 - [WEEK 9&10]
10/15: Chicano Art and Culture: The Art of Lowriding
10/17: Guest speaker: Chicano Artist Tijuana Rick
10/22: CANCELLED CLASS
10/24: CANCELLED CLASS
MODULE 6 - [WEEKS 11&12]
10/29: Chicana/o’s & Education; resisting racism and inequity
10/31: Participation: Film and Discussion: Precious Knowledge
*Extra Credit: Film: Push Outs
11/5: Paulo Freire’s Levels of Consciousness
11/7: Participation: Applying Freire’s Levels of Consciousness
MODULE 7 - [WEEKS 13&14]
11/12: [Final collabs] Criminalizing & Policing the Chicana/o Community
11/14: Participation: Films: Zoot Suit Riots & 13th
11/19: Farmworker Movement / Bracero Program
11/21: Participation: Film: Harvest of Loneliness
MODULE 8 - [WEEKS 15&16]
11/26: In class final collaborations
11/28: Holiday - no class
12/3: Final Presentations
12/5: Final Presentations (Last Day of Class / Course Reflections and Connections)