COURSE DESCRIPTIONS FOR SPRING 2005
Introduction to Chicana/o Studies Call # 11554
Ch St 201.001 MWF
11:00-11:50 Mitchell Hall
102
Truxillo, C.
This courses will serve as an introduction to Chicana/o Studies and
include topics such as history, nomenclature, gender, civil rights,
activism,
and ideology. Chicana/o Studies will prepare students for upper
division Chicana/o Studies courses and will serve as an introduction to
the minor in Chicana/o Studies. Approved
by A &S as: Group V Human
Introduction to Chicana/o Studies Call # 10450
weekly topics syllabus
CH ST 201.002 T 17:00-19:30
Department Room
Lopez. J
A broad overview of the field of Chicana/o Studies based on a variety
of authors enhanced by guest speakers, poets and videos.
Approved by A &S as: Group
V Humanities
Chicanos
Abroad/ Chicanos in Argentina Call #
17110 itinerary flyer
Ch St 351. 014 MW 16:00-17:15
Mitchell Hall 111
Truxillo, C
This course will be taught on campus for the first seven weeks of the
Spring Semester 2004. During the Spring Break for that semester
the class will be taught on-site in Argentina; This course will
emphasize as
its central premise, the inter-connections between the Southwest and
Argentina. The class will visit Buenos Aires, Cordoba and the
Falls of the Paraquay river. The goal of the class is to give
students an ingsight into Argentina’s varied and important history and
society.
TW Honors 302.014 Approved by A&
S as: Group V Humanities
Ch St 351. 570 Chicanos
Abroad / NM and Puerto Rico Trip (Restricted) Spring Break
(March 12-19, 2005) Lamadrid, E
----Arranged
flyer
Puerto Rico, Borinquen, la Isla del Encanto is the
destination of this Spring Break expedition to study the historical,
cultural, and
social experiences of Puerto Ricans and Chicanos. We will explore
the entire island, from the disputed island of Vieques and the rain
forests of El Yunque in the northeast to the deserts of Cabo Rojo in
the southwest. Taken in conjunction with the Chicano-Riqueño
Senior Learning
Community (SPAN 371 Spanish of the SW - María Dolores
Gonzales
or 479 U.S. Latino Lit -Eleuterio Santiago Díaz).
TW Span 301.570 Approved
by A& S as: Group V
Humanities
Chicanos
Abroad / El Camino Real Expedition (Restricted) Spring
Inter-session
(May 9-31, 2005) Lamadrid, E.
Ch St 351. 571 Arranged
An
exploration of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, its parajes
(rest stops), towns, cities, and
landscapes, from its terminus in Santa Fe to the starting point for the first
New Mexicans, Zacatecas, including Chihuahua, Parral and Santa
Bárbara, Durango, and Sombrerete. A search and documentation of the cultural
roots of New Mexico with expert guides.
TW Span 301.570 Approved
by A& S as: Group V Humanities
Senior Seminar: Hispanos & Community Service
Call # 10572
Ch St 490.017 T
11:00-1:30
Department Room
Candelaria, M
Learning will be fun and hands on in this exciting seminar where
students will get the opportunity to work in the field and come
together in the classroom to share ideas and discuss must read
books. The theme of this course will be on social justice and
emphasize the ethics of responsibility with a special focus on relating
theory to practice. There are two components to this course: an
academic one and one based on service learning. The academic
component will consist of a seminar class where we all will get to
discuss their own ideas, their interpretations of the readings, and
reflections based upon their service learning. Students
will each
be involved in a project of social justice by participating in the
on-going work of a non-profit foundation or public agency. What
you read and study will inform your work of social justice and your
experience doing social work will enhance your reading of texts and
motivate you to contribute robustly to seminar discussion. This
course includes a Service Learning Component, please allow time
in your schedule for community service.
Chicano Studies credit for the MINOR,
This Class is mandatory to complete Minor
Globalization and Human Rights: Perspectives from Third World
Philosophers. Call #
10146 flyer
Ch St 393.002 MWF
11:00- 11:50am
Dane Smith Hall 126
Candelaria, M
In this course we will give, a long-delayed, and much deserved hearing,
especially in light of current events in this new millennium, to those
forgotten, ignored and unheard voices in philosophy—voices from the
Islamic
world, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and ‘Third World’ voices in North
America.
Intercultural approaches to philosophy are both possible and
necessary.
Digital revolution and advances in telecommunications have made
intercultural philosophical dialogue possible. Planetary threats
to collective human
survival have made intercultural dialogue about human rights and
responsibilities necessary. This course will provide timely
opportunity to
study philosophical problems and proposed solutions associated
with
contemporary debates on human rights from the points of view of ‘Third
World’
philosophers. TW Phil 341.002
Approved for Group IV Social
Sciences
Hispana Writings: From Folklore to Fiction
Call #
19888 flyer
Ch St 393.003 MWF
13:00-13:50
Mitchell Hall 118
Vizcaino, M.
This class will study the literary history of New Mexican Hispanic
women's writing beginning with the WPA folktales and concluding with
contemporary fiction. The readings will also cover folk
cookbooks, fictionalized folk stories, autobiography, the "Spanish"
writings that dominated the literature of the 1940s-1960s, and the
emergence of contemporary Chicana fiction in new Mexico. We'll
examine the role of Hispana writing in the history of the state's
development; we'll consider how gender, race, and class complicate
Hispana literary history; and we'll encourage and conduct archival
research to emphasize the importance of recovering Hispana voices.
Possible authors include: Aurora Lucero-White, Nina Oter-Warren,
Cleofas Jaramillo, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, and Denise Chavez.
TW Am St 360.003
S.W. Hispanic Religion Call
# 18854 flyer
Ch St 393.004 MWF
10:00- 10:50
Mitchell Hall 217
Candelaria, M
This course examines the role that religion has played in the Hispanic
struggle for cultural self-determination. From a historical point
of view we will explore the origins of Mexican American religious
symbolism, study the intellectual, cultural, and institutional sources
of spirituality, and investigate the appropriation and use of religious
language and symbols in the struggles for independence and
liberation. We will focus attention on the Chicano struggle
for rights within The Catholic Church and the historical effect of
Republican Protestantism on Hispanics in the Southwest. In
particular, we will examine current literature on Hispanic/Latino
Religion and theology. Along the way, we will consider spirituality
from
the perspective of Chicana feminism. In addition, we will focus
on
the Penitents of New Mexico and Santo art. Popular Catholicism in
the Southwest in its most salient aspects will also require our
attention.
TW Relig St. 347.004 Approved
for Group IV Social
Sciences IV Social
Sciences
Meso American Civilizations Call # 17769
flyer
Truxillo, C
Ch St 393. 006 MW
12:00-13:15
Mitchell Hall 111
Meso American Civilizations will survey the social evolution and
history of the high cultures of Mexico and Central America in
Pre-Columbian times. Special emphasis will be placed on the
politics, ideology and religion among the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Mayans,
Teothihuocanos, Toltecs and Mexican Aztecs. Personalitites such
as Quetzalcuatl, Topiltzin, Tlacailel and Moctuzuma
will be discussed.
TW Anthro 340 and Native Am 255
Indo-Hispano
Arts in New Mexico
Call # 16683 flyer
Ch St 393.007 Thur
16:00-18:30
Dane Smith Hall 223
Montano, Mary
A
comprehensive survey of the development of the unique Nuevomexicano
culture from colonial times to the present, including religious and
secular visual art and music, festivals and rituals, prose and poetry,
oral traditions, performing arts, architecture, handcrafts, foodways,
healing arts and social dance. The class will explore
the influences of Native American, Mexican and Mediterranean
cultures that contributed to the shaping of historical and contemporary
Nuevomexicano practices and worldviews.
TW Fine Arts 329.007 Approved
for Group VII Fine Arts_____
Art of Community Service Call #
15608
flyer
393.008 Thur
16:00-18:30
Department Room
López,
A
Chicano Studies "Art and Community Service" course students working
with Robert F. Kennedy Charter High School Students, Albuquerque, NM on
clay tile project. This particular project focuses on the illustration
of key mathematical concepts such as the invention of "zero" and the
substitution of letters for number values,on a series of tiles that
will eventually comprise a wall mural at the school. A series of murals
depicting the signs and symbols of numerous cultures from around the
world are being planned by the participants of this class under the
direction of Alejandro Lopez, course instructor, Evelyn Fernandez RFK
art teacher and Louie Garcia, RFK science teacher. This course will
again be offered during Spring 2005 semester. For anyone interested,
please refer to call # 15608, Ch St 393.008.
Chicano/Latino Film
Call #
14523
Ch St 393. 009 M 16:00-18:30
Dane Smith Hall 123
Melendez, A
This course examines the Chicano/Latino Experience through its
images and depiction on film and video. In addition, the
course will consider Chicano/Latino film as a self-representational
medium; one that provides a response to an affirmation of the Latino
experience in America. In this course we will have the
opportunity to screen feature-length films, Chicano/a docu-drama and
Latino/a independent and experimental films. We will study
Chicano/Latino film as a form of cultural representation and
communication. Additionally, we will consider such questions as
film narration, symbolism and subjectivity.
TW: American Studies 363, 563
Meets Arts & Science Group V Humanities Requirement
Engendering Empire in the
Americas Call # 13471
Ch St 393.012 MW 12:30-13:45
Mesa Vista Hall 2131
Perea,
P
This course will look at the various experiences of women in the
Western hemisphere during various stages of empire. We will focus
mostly on women’s literature, but we will also look at film, poetry and
art. Because colonization is an ongoing process, we will investigate it
in all of its stages – colonization, decolonization, postcolonialism,
neocolonialism. We will
also see how globalization plays a colonizing role in the current
relationship
between the “First” and “Third” worlds. Our key questions will be the
following: What role do women play in these events and how do they
express their thoughts regarding these events in their cultural
productions?
TW Wm St 379.012
Camino Real Call # 12398
flyer
Banuelos, Jose Monte
Ch St 393. 013 T
17:30-20:00
Ortega Hall 217
The Camino Real de
Tierra Adentro is the historic and cultural link which connects New Mexico to the
centers of civilization in the south. In 1598, Spanish Mexican settlers
followed ancient and new routes to arrive at the Río Grande valley. The
literature of the Camino Real includes everything from origin myths and
chronicles of conquest and colonization to the border stories and songs of today. At
the end of the semester we will travel the Camino Real from Santa Fe to
Zacatecas.
TW Span 301.013
Intercultural Communications Among Women Call # 11311
Ch St 393.014 R
16:00-1830
Mesa Vista Hall 2131
Fields, D
This course will offer both academic and experiential approaches to
communication across cultural differences, focusing on communication
as expressed and experienced by women. Women are women are women. NOT!
We come from a wide range of experiences, including nationalities,
economic, education, and social classes. Some of us are from the
barrio, some from the ghetto, some from the Whitehouse, and some from
the penthouse. Different is different; not necessarily better or
worse. Different. In this
course, we will take a multi-cultural and inclusive approach to issues
of
difference, including groups of women who are racially and ethnically
different,
youth, gays, lesbians, bi-sexual, transgendered, and questioning women.
Understanding is KEY. In this course we will learn about the continuum
and
the cyclical construct of intercultural communication competence, from
cultural destructiveness to intercultural proficiency. Topics will
include the
history of oppression and of racism, understanding and embracing
difference,
exclusionary/inclusionary practices, white privilege, group dynamics,
communicating
sexism and learning the language of intercultural competence.
TW Wm St 279.014
Introduction to Chicano Literature
Call #
Ch St 393. 017
TR 9:30-10:45
Torres, H
TW ENGL 365. 017
Survey of Chicano Literature
Call # 10250
Ch St 393. 020 TR
12:30-13:45
Dane Smith Hall 334
Gonzales,
Maria D
TW SPAN 370.020
Spanish of the Southwest
Call # 19982
Ch St 393. 021 TR
17:30-18:45
Ortega Hall 107
Gonzales, Maria D
Spanish 371 estará enlazado con la clase U.S. Latino
Caribbean Literature. En español
371 examinaremos
desde una perspective sociolingüística del
español nuevo mexicano y el español puertorriqueño
y comparemos lo histórico, socio-político
de estas dos
variaciones. Incluso, los estudiantes
harán una investigación sobre el English
Only Movement y el impacto sobre el español de estas dos
regiones. Para las vacaciones de la
primavera, iremos a
Puerto Rico por 10 días. Los estudiantes que participan en el viaje
harán algunas mini-entrevistas lingüísticas con
puertorriqueños sobre los temas
que hemos discutido en clase ante mano.
Al regresar, harán entrevistas con nuevo mexicanos para
poder hacer una
comparación de las actitudes lingüísticas de estos
dos grupos hispanohablantes. Los
requisitos de esta clase incluyen,
trabajos escritos, entrevistas lingüísticas,
participación activa en las
discusiones de clase, y un proyecto final que incluye un componente
oral y
escrito.
TW SPAN 371.021
Language Identity Discrimination
Call # 18951
Ch St 393.022 TR
11:00-12:15
Dane Smith Hall 233
Aaron,
Jessi
This course will focus on how dominant language ideologies in the
United States have been used in discourses that have often functioned
to attempt to define and repress less powerful groups in society.
Furthermore, it will explore how certain groups have articulated
alternative language ideologies that reinforce and transform their
identities and resist the exploitation and repression of dominant
groups. This course will take a broad perspective, looking at language
ideologies regarding the working class, women, gays and lesbians,
speakers of African American Vernacular English, the Deaf community,
speakers of Chicano English, people with disabilities, and immigrants,
among others. Through this broad approach, the powerful effect of
language on
the structure of society and in social change will become evident.
TW LING 295.022
Ch St 393.023 Southwest Hispanic Folklore
Call
# 17861 flyer
MW 17:30-18:45
Ortega Hall 215
Lamadrid, E
Indo-Hispanic folklore of the Río Grande del Norte in social
and historical contexts. Expressive culture, customs, and
folkways,
with emphasis on oral traditions, folk music, and festivals of New
Mexico. Introduction to ethnopoetic transcription and analysis,
field work and documentation, archival exploration.
NM Gender Race Symbols
Call # 16812
Ch St 393.024 TR
08:00-09:15
Mesa Vista Hall 2131
Lara, Dulcinea
Cultural Iconography: New Mexico's Gendered and Racialized Symbols
In this highly-interactive course we will examine public
art/icons/symbols in New Mexico, looking specifically for
representations of gender, race and culture. From monumental statues of
Don Juan de Onate to murals in our very own Zimmerman Library, this
course spans different historical periods in New Mexico and provides
students with a critical vocabulary from which to speak about their new
and evolving understanding of their own surroundings. We will take
field trips, watch films, listen to music, poetry and various guest
speakers and engage in dialogue that is important to begin unraveling
and explaining notions such as "tricultural harmony" or "Spanish
legacy" that are endemic to New Mexico. Themes we will cover as a
class include: cultural tourism; visual culture; representations
of "femininity" and "masculinity"; museum theory; intersections of
gender, race and class, and many others. This course is designed to be
fun and dynamic, and therefore requires serious
commitment from students to be thoughtful and critical thinkers and
to participate in class activities and discussion.
TW Wm St 332.024
Dark Goddess
Call # 15715
Ch St 393.030 T
16:00-18:30 Dane Smith Hall
128
Sutton, Maya
Contact information
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