Mexican American Studies (MXAS)
An introduction to the area of Chicano Studies including the cultural, historical, and linguistic approaches. This basic course includes the study of major authors, significant historical events, and important linguistic considerations.
Studies folklore through selected examples of traditional Mexican and Mexican American culture. Possible topics include: folk songs, folk healing, folk art, foods, testimonials, tales, proverbs, riddles, or other cultural element characteristics of the Mexican American experience.
An analysis of Chicano literature. Special emphasis will be given to the new consciousness of the Chicano in the most current literature of the various genres.
The course familiarizes students with Chicana playwrights and plays representative of Chicana feminist and queer thought, using an historical framework to establish distinctive periods in Chicana Theater from the 1980s to the present. Themes related to socio-political circumstances, as well as the construction and representation of race, class, gender, and sexuality and their relationship to identity will be explored through literary analysis and theory.
Latinex Voices engages with anti-oppressive pedagogies to teach Mexican popular poetry, corrido. By reading poetry and scholarly articles the students will think critically about social issues all over the world, and will reflect on those topics by writing poetry. This course will introduce students to the critical frameworks of Latin American Studies including Queer Latinex Feminism, and Decolonial Pedagogies with a selection of readings in English and Spanish to engage together with the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed written by Paulo Freire in 1968. We will also connect Freire’s social justice scholarship with The Student Guide to Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Darder, 2018) a companion book to further contextualize Freire’s work.
A course that deals with significant issues related to Mexican American history, politics, culture, identity, and language. May be repeated when topics vary.
May be repeated when topics vary.