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Academic Unit: Chicano & Latino Studies

CHIC 1102 - Latinos in the United States: Culture and Citizenship [HIS DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: CHIC 1102H
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 - Honors: Latinos in the United States: Culture and Citizenship [HIS DSJ]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: CHIC 1102 (starting 04-SEP-12)
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 - Foundations in Chicana/o/x Studies [DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CHIC 1106 until 06-SEP-05
This course investigates the prevailing frameworks or methods of analysis and teaching that have shaped Chicana/o/x studies, the critical investigation of Mexican Americans and the complex systems that render the US structurally inseparable from Mexico. These linkages imply that Mexico and the U.S. are part of the Am?ricas. They also suggest that Chicana/o/x studies is related to Latinx studies, a connection we explore this semester. The course begins with an overview of differences between ethnic studies and area studies, levels of multicultural curriculum, and the significance of Chicana/o/x studies. It explores the major theories that have informed analysis and methods: experiential knowledge, cultural nationalism, internal colonialism, hegemony and counter-hegemony, coloniality of power, transnationalism, globalization, Chicana feminisms, intersectionality, oppositional consciousness, heteropatriarchy, abjection, racialization, anti-Black racism and Afro-Latinx studies, structural analysis, and queer theory, decolonial methods, Critical Race Theory, and Critical Latinx Indigeneities. Students learn about and apply concepts for an effective Capstone project in their senior year.
CHIC 3212 - Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society [AH DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: GWSS 3212, GWSS 3410 (inactive, starting 07-SEP-10, ending 02-SEP-08, starting 22-JAN-02, was WOST 3410 until 05-SEP-06, was CHIC 3212 until 06-SEP-05, was WOST 3410 until 22-JAN-02, was CHIC 3212 until 22-JAN-02, was WOST 3410 until 04-SEP-01, was CHIC 3212 until 04-SEP-01, was WOST 3410 until 07-SEP-99)
Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.
CHIC 3216W - The Power of Chicana/o/x Art: 1960s to the present [AH CIV WI]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: CHIC 5216W, ARTH 3216W
What is Chicana/o/x art? Does Ruben Salazar?s bluntly stated notion of a ?Chicano? suggest an answer? ?A Chicano [Chicana or Chicanx] is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself [herself or themselves]? (Los Angeles Times, 1970). Chicano, Chicana, and Chicanx identities crystalized during the Chicano Movement (1965-1980), which witnessed the rise of collective mobilizations to improve the labor conditions, education, housing, health, and civil rights for Mexican Americans. From its inception, the Chicano Movement attracted artists who created a new aesthetic and framework for producing art, but they did not merely illustrate the social and civil rights movement by creating posters and flyers. Artists theorized, negotiated, proposed, and initiated new ethics, aesthetics, and ways of thinking that supported self-determination, hope, social critique, solidarity, and justice. Increasingly since the 1980s, Chicanas and Chicanx artists renegotiated this social justice contract. Chicana/o/x art continues to inform Mexican American cultural production and the nation?s cultural heritage. Social intervention, empowerment, and institutional critique remain some of the most important innovations of American artists, Chicana/o/x artists among them.
CHIC 3221 - Chicana/o Cultural Studies: Barrio Culture and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life [AH DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
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 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
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 3352 - Transborder Theory: Global Views/Borderland Spaces
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Fall Even Year)
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. Dynamics of borderland spaces.
CHIC 3374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy [CIV]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: CHIC 5374
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 3375 - Folklore of Greater Mexico [DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
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 3412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms [GP]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: CHIC 5412 (starting 05-SEP-17), AMST 5412, ANTH 5412, GWSS 3515, AMIN 5412
The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.
CHIC 3423 - Central American Revolutions
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: HIST 3423
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 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Summer)
Equivalent courses: HIST 3425 (starting 07-SEP-99)
Mexico from independence to the present: struggles for land, liberty, and equality; ethnicity, gender, and class; economic growth, nationalism, and globalization; urbanization, immigration, demographic transition. Issues of race, religion, and national identity; the US-Mexico War, the 1910 Mexican Revolution, urbanization, migration, free trade agreements, and the War on Drugs.
CHIC 3428 - History of Relations Between U.S. and Mexico: 1821 to Present [IP]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was HIST 3428 until 04-SEP-12, was HIST 3428 until 21-JAN-03, was LAS 3428 until 21-JAN-03, was HIST 3428 until 03-SEP-02, was LAS 3428 until 03-SEP-02, was HIST 3428 until 07-SEP-99, was LAS 3428 until 07-SEP-99
U.S.-Mexico relations in the 19th and 20th centuries; examining histories as they intersect in the late 1820s; loss of Texas; Mexican-American War; economic relations between the two countries including NAFTA and the Chiapas rebellion of 1994.
CHIC 3444 - Chicana and Chicano History I [HIS DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CHIC 3441 until 17-JAN-06, was HIST 3441 until 02-SEP-03, was LAS 3441 until 02-SEP-03, was CHIC 3441 until 02-SEP-03, was HIST 3441 until 07-SEP-99, was LAS 3441 until 07-SEP-99, GLOS 3634 (inactive, was LAS 3441 until 08-SEP-15), HIST 3441 (inactive), HIST 3444
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. Topics include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, migration.
CHIC 3446 - Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium [HIS DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: HIST 3446
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 - Chicanx/LatinX Indigeneity [DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
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 WI DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CHIC 3507 until 17-JAN-06, ENGL 3507W
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 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
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 3771 - Latino Social Power and Social Movements in the U.S.
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
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 3838 - Policing, Surveillance, and Social Movements in 20th Century U.S. [HIS DSJ]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: HIST 3858 (starting 17-JAN-23)
This course explores how policing and surveillance changed, evolved, and adapted throughout the twentieth century in the United States. We will trace the trajectory of police power & legitimacy as well as examine how the institution of policing responded to ongoing racial justice movements.
CHIC 3852 - Chicana/o Politics [SOCS DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: POL 3752
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 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: AAS 3862, HIST 3862 (starting 22-JAN-08)
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 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: HIST 3445 (inactive)
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 3896 - Internship for Academic Credit
(1 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
An applied learning experience in an agreed-upon, short-term, supervised workplace activity, with defined goals, which may be related to a student's major field or area of interest. The work can be full or part time, paid or unpaid, primarily in off-campus environments. Internships integrate classroom knowledge and theory with practical application and skill development in professional or community settings. The skills and knowledge learned should be transferable to other employment settings and not simply to advance the operations of the employer. Typically the student's work is supervised and evaluated by a site coordinator or instructor.
CHIC 3900 - Topics in Chicano Studies (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Topic: Health in Indig chicx/Latinx
CHIC 3920 - Topics in Spanish-American Lit (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
n/a
CHIC 3993 - Directed Studies
(1 cr [max 9]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 16 credits; may be repeated 16 times)
Guided individual reading, research, and study. Students often do preliminary readings and research in conjunction with plans for education abroad programs.
CHIC 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: AMIN 4231, AAS 4231, AFRO 4231 (starting 07-SEP-99, was AMIN 4231 until 07-SEP-99, was CHIC 4231 until 07-SEP-99)
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 cr; Student Option; offered Fall Odd, Spring Even Year)
Equivalent courses: GWSS 4232 (inactive), GLBT 4232 (inactive)
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 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
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 [AH DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Fall Even Year)
Equivalent courses: GWSS 4401 (starting 05-SEP-06, was WOST 4401 until 05-SEP-06, was CHIC 4401 until 02-SEP-03, was WOST 4401 until 07-SEP-99)
Readings in Chicana/Latina cultural studies. TV, film, art, music, dance, theatre, literature. Identity/sexuality. Production of culture/theory.
CHIC 4901W - Senior Paper [WI]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CHIC 4901 until 17-JAN-06
Capstone experience. Students produce original research paper or creative project on a topic determined in consultation with a faculty adviser.
CHIC 4993W - Directed Study: Senior Capstone [WI]
(1 cr; S-N only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
This course accompanies any 3xxx, 4xxx, or 5xxx level course from Chicano and Latino Studies taught by a tenure-line faculty in the department and serves as the capstone requirement in addition to the existing host course requirements. Therefore, the student is co-currently enrolled in the appropriate 3xxx, 4xxx, or 5xxx level host course that matches their research interests and this capstone writing intensive class.
CHIC 5216W - The Power of Chicana/o/x Art: 1960s to the present [AH CIV WI]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARTH 3216W, CHIC 3216W (starting 21-JAN-20, ending 05-SEP-17)
What is Chicana/o/x art? Does Ruben Salazar?s bluntly stated notion of a ?Chicano? suggest an answer? ?A Chicano [Chicana or Chicanx] is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself [herself or themselves]? (Los Angeles Times, 1970). Chicano, Chicana, and Chicanx identities crystalized during the Chicano Movement (1965-1980), which witnessed the rise of collective mobilizations to improve the labor conditions, education, housing, health, and civil rights for Mexican Americans. From its inception, the Chicano Movement attracted artists who created a new aesthetic and framework for producing art, but they did not merely illustrate the social and civil rights movement by creating posters and flyers. Artists theorized, negotiated, proposed, and initiated new ethics, aesthetics, and ways of thinking that supported self-determination, hope, social critique, solidarity, and justice. Increasingly since the 1980s, Chicanas and Chicanx artists renegotiated this social justice contract. Chicana/o/x art continues to inform Mexican American cultural production and the nation?s cultural heritage. Social intervention, empowerment, and institutional critique remain some of the most important innovations of American artists, Chicana/o/x artists among them.
CHIC 5374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy [CIV]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: CHIC 3374 (starting 20-JAN-15)
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 5402 - Chicanas: Women and Work
(3 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was GWSS 5405 until 26-MAY-15, was WOST 5405 until 05-SEP-06, was WOST 5405 until 07-SEP-99
Chicanas, their various relationships to family/community. Local, national, and global work forces. Questions/issues related to growing integration of world?s systems of production.
CHIC 5403 - Chicana/Latina Feminisms
(3 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was GWSS 5403 until 04-SEP-12, was WOST 5403 until 05-SEP-06, was WOST 5403 until 07-SEP-99
The historical and social development of Chicana and Latina feminisms in general and their various specific types.
CHIC 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms [GP]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: CHIC 3412 (starting 05-SEP-17), AMST 5412, ANTH 5412, GWSS 3515, AMIN 5412
The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.
CHIC 5920 - Topics in Chicana(o) Studies (Topics course)
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 15 credits; may be repeated 5 times)
Multidisciplinary themes in Chicana(o) studies. Issues of current interest.
CHIC 5993 - Directed Studies
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 16 credits; may be repeated 16 times)
Guided individual reading, research, and study for completion of the requirements for a senior paper or honors thesis.

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