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AMERICAN STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS - SPRING 2011 182.001 Intro to Environment, Science & Tech T 4:00 - 6:30 DSH 234 Correia 182.002 Intro to Environment, Science & Tech W 4:00 - 6:30 ORTG 121 Weber Arts & Sciences group: Social Science / Core Curriculum: Social Science This is an introduction to American attitudes toward nature, science, technology and the impacts of those attitudes on built and natural environments regionally, nationally and globally. This course covers the period from World War II to the present, focusing on the environmental effects of such diverse scientific and technological products as chemical pesticides, nuclear power, and television. In this course we will look at current environmental issues, delving into contentious topics and passionate debates, while asking difficult questions. How does consumerism impact the environment, and how much stuff do we really need? Is wilderness a necessity or a luxury? Should an endangered fish have water rights? Are pesticides giving us cancer? We'll consider debates within the scientific community, explore conflicts between developers and environmentalists, and look at the promise and limitations of technological solutions. 184.001 Intro to American Pop Culture M 4:00 - 6:30 DSH 128 Diaz Arts & Sciences group: Humanities Popular culture can be defined as the beliefs and practices that characterize a particular culture, as well as the objects, narratives, and rituals through which they are organized and that are widely shared, enjoyed, and understood among a population. It is also generally understood as the culture of ordinary people, as opposed to highly educated or specialized elites. This course examines many aspects of popular culture, including movies, action figures and other toys, cartoons/comics, advertising, television, and urban legends. The class involves learning how to read popular culture as a text and as an indicator of societal norms, diversions, and diversities. 185.001 Intro to Race/Class/Ethnicity MWF 1:00 - 1:50 DSH 233 McSherry 185.002 Intro to Race/Class/Ethnicity TR 12:30 - 1:45 SARAR 101 Yazzie 185.003 Intro to Race/Class/Ethnicity T 5:30 - 8:00 ORTG 115 Olorunsiwa Arts & Sciences group: Social Sciences/Core Curriculum: Social Sciences This is an interdisciplinary introduction to the issues, and social and cultural formation of race, class and ethnicity in American life and society. The course is designed to foster an appreciation of the heterogeneity of experience in American life. The course is focused on the study of cross-cultural group relations. More specifically, this course will consider: Who are you? For most of us, self-description includes our race, class, and ethnicity, but what do these terms mean? Are these terms fixed and unchanging? This course introduces the terms, race, class and ethnicity and offers a critical discussion of their historical meaning and their meaning in modern society. We will pay attention to cross-cultural and interdisciplinary themes within these definitions. 186.005 Intro to Southwest Studies TR 8:00 - 9:15 am DSH 129 Valencia Arts & Sciences group: Humanities/ Core Curriculum: Humanities Provides both an introduction to the complex history and culture of the southwestern United States and a demonstration of the possibilities of the interdisciplinary study of regional American culture. It is multicultural in content and multidisciplinary in methodology. Examines cross-cultural relationships among the peoples of the Southwest within the framework of their expressions and experiences in art, culture, religion, and social and political economy. More specifically, this course will consider: What is this place we call the Southwest? How is it defined- geographically, politically, and culturally? Who are the people that live there? How have their lives been transformed by social and historical forces into the cultures we see today? At the same time, how have these same groups retained their traditions, customs, and beliefs in response to change? This course will explore contemporary Southwestern cultures, their multiple voices and culture expressions, using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from geography, anthropology, history, literature, and the arts. 200.001 Race, Sports & Media TR 2:00 - 3:15 MITCH 117 Staff Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with AFST 297, Race, Sports & Media. This course will examine how race, sport, and media converge to influence the way the public views different members of different cultures, ethnic groups and gender. At the end of this course you will have a better knowledge and understanding of media's effect on sport culture. 251.001 Chicano Experience in the US TR 11:00 - 12:15 MITCH 117 Samora Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with CHMS 201, Introduction to Chicano, Hispano, Mexicano Studies. This course is an introduction to the field of Chicano/Hispano/Mexicano Studies. In this course, we will study the history of Chicanos/Hispanos/Mexicanos in the United States and in the México-U.S. borderlands in particular. Alongside this history, we will also study the creative work of this population. This creative work includes history, narrative, film and art (painting, photography, sculpture, etc.). 285.001 American Life and Thought W 5:30 - 8:00 ORTG 313 Ricketts Arts & Sciences group: Humanities American Life and Thought: Popular Culture in America examines the prevailing cultural trends, beliefs, and values in the United States through the lens of various popular culture media including film, literature, advertising, the internet, and television. Through the examination of primary and secondary sources, we will analyze how issues of race, gender, ethnicity, class, and religion all played a role in shaping America. (Note: this course is required for all American Studies majors and minors) 303.001 Law in the Political Community W 5:30 - 8:00 DSH 229 Wright Arts & Sciences group: Social Science Also offered as POLS 303, Law in the Political Community. The purpose of this course is twofold: to introduce students to the principal features of the American legal system as a part of the political system, and perhaps more importantly, to equip the students with a set of analytical tools that they can use to analyze how actors and institutions operate within this system and why they behave in certain ways. With a critical eye, we will explore how the law functions as a tool and an institution of government, the presidency, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, etc. Furthermore, we will examine the role played by the court system in the formation and implementation of public policy. 309.001 Globalization & Social Movements W 4:00 - 6:30 Goldstein Arts & Sciences group: Social Science This course explores the development and rhetoric of globalization, providing students with an introduction to key debates and controversies, and focuses on the grassroots alliances and transnational coalitions responding to neoliberal institutions and the ambitions of global capital. Among the central questions the course examines are: How have social movements addressed the conditions and consequences of globalization? What forms of organized resistance, reform, and rebellion have challenged the ascendance of the so-called free market? In what ways have indigenous peoples and local groups asserted autonomy and self-determination in response to global capital? These questions will be addressed through a combination of interdisciplinary readings, films, and writing assignments. 309.002 Social Movements in America: Community Gardens and Social Change TR 2:00 - 3:15 Marcum Arts & Sciences group: Social Sciences This course examines the relationship between political activism and social change in the United States with a particular focus on how community gardens have emerged in recent years as dynamic spaces to address long-term challenges related to environmental, social, and public health. In addition to exploring the organizational methods, tactics, and political, cultural, and social efficacy of various social movements, this Research Service Learning class affords students the chance to be a part of the sustainable food movement through active participation in the on-going effort to develop campus and community gardens known as Lobo Gardens. Students will be planting, building, landscaping, harvesting, meeting, and organizing fellow students while exploring community gardens as sites for social and cultural resistance, community building, and positive social change. Contact Andrew Marcum amarcum@unm.edu for more information. *There will be a strong service-learning component to this class. 310.001 Chicano-a Culture TR 12:30 - 1:45 Vizcaino-Alemán Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with ENGL 365, Chicana/o Cultural Studies. This course is a study in the politics and representations of Chicana/o cultural production. We will track the formation of contemporary Chicana/o identity politics and aesthetics through an historical and critical consideration of language, power, displacement, regionalism, and transnational movements. The class will chart the emergence of Chicana/o cultural production and the paradigmatic shifts in identity from 1848 forward, with attention to how contemporary Chicana/o identity is part of a larger history that encapsulates three eras: Spanish colonial, Mexican national, and the post-colonial US. In order to achieve this critical and historical trajectory, we will read both primary and secondary texts that range from testimonios, folklore, ethnography, literature, short fiction, history, and criticism. The class will also become familiar with the politics of Chicana/o film, art, and landscape architecture, and critical readings in all these areas will provide analytical frames for discussion. As a cultural studies class, students must be prepared to think and read critically and across disciplines. Classroom instruction will combine lectures, discussions, and small group interaction. 310.002 NM Hispanic Religious Arts T 5:30 - 8:00 Carrillo Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with RELG 482, NM Hispanic Religious Arts. Religion-related material culture fashioned by New Mexico Hispanics (painting, sculpture, architecture) in the context of ethnohistory. 310.004 Latino-Latina Cultural Production F 1:00 - 3:30 ORTG 313 Díaz Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with CHMS 393, Latino-Latina Cultural Production. With an eye to contemporary Latino cultural politics, in this interdisciplinary course we will study Chicano/Hispano/Mexicano popular culture and a broad range of other forms including art, performance, and museum exhibitions. Thinking about "culture" as a field of struggle, we will use these diverse sites to contemplate contested issues such as "gender," "belonging," and "representation." Students will be expected to write responses to films, exhibitions, and other readings. As well they will complete a final analytical project that demonstrates aptitude in an aspect of Latino cultural production. 310.005 US/Middle East Cultural Politics TR 11:00 - 12:15 MITCH 102 Lubin Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course historicizes contemporary United States military and economic involvement in the Middle East by considering the cultural history of U.S./Middle East relations from the mid-19th century to the present. An emergent area of transnational study within American Studies, studies of U.S./Middle East cultural relations are focused on policy, economic, cultural, and affective dimensions. Students will engage the field by analyzing primary documents, reading literature, and viewing visual and popular culture. 310.006 Folk Music in America MWF 10:00 - 10:50 MITCH 211 White Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is a survey and an introduction to American Folk music, particularly the music of Appalachia, both songs and instrumentals. We will often use the internet to listen to and see groups and individual performers, festivals, camps, and so forth. However, the class will break into groups to study certain genres or ethnic traditions, like regional music, the Blues, European musical traditions transported to America, and so forth. We will look at occupational folk music, like miners' songs, contemporary folk music, the folk music revival, and we will learn a little bit about playing and dancing to Appalachian music in my violin shop in Communication and Journalism. You do not have to play a musical instrument to join the class, but if you do play guitar, fiddle, bass, or mandolin, for example, that is highly encouraged. We will have some performances in class. 310.007 The US and North Africa TR 4:00 - 5:15 Ammi Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course will provide students with an historical basis for American-Maghrebi relations in order to critically consider the links between the contemporary politics and economics as well as the literary, cinematic, and musical production of these nations. The course will begin with a presentation of the North African countries' interest in the United States at the time of the nation's birth and throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, followed by an overview of colonial and world war period political, military and economic relations. The second half of the course will focus on post-colonial interest in the Maghreb, significant American literary creation in and around North Africa and the shift in America's political stance towards Arab nations. 310.046 Post Colonial Theory Mazumdar Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with AFST 397, Post Colonial Theory. This class will examine the fast-growing field of postcolonial studies by concentrating on creative and theoretical writing from various disciplines such as philosophy, literature, anthropology, history, culture studies, and developmental economics. Some of the questions that will be raised in the course of the semester are as follows: Is postcolonial writing by necessity political allegory? What is the nature of the colonized/colonizer relationship? Who can or should speak for the oppressed? What are linguistic and cultural imperialisms? Is a general postcolonial theory possible, or must analysis be tied to the local? How do race, class and gender intersect in formerly colonized countries? The significance of this course is that we shall deal at length not just with "Culture" as divorced from Economics, but the latter will surface in all of our discussions and critiques of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and nationalism. Throughout the semester we shall try to examine the relationship between post-colonial writings, developmental economics, and both cultural and economic globalization. 313.001 American Folklore & Folklife TR 8:00 - 11:00 MARN 104 White Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This is part of a four-semester course in Violin Making: Construction, History, Culture and Performance. Through both lectures and field trips, students will learn the history of violin making, some aspects of performance, and be exposed to a variety of cultural and historical materials related to the religious, ritual and folk violin performances and dances practiced in New Mexico since the early 17th century. Enrollment in the course must be approved by the instructor, Dr. Peter White, who can be reached at plwhite@unm.edu. 320.001 Environment, Science & Pop Culture TR 5:30 - 8:00 Metzger *2nd 8 Weeks Arts & Sciences group: Social Science We consume it every day--the movies on the big screen and on our iPods and the pop-up advertisements that slows our Internet browsing; the televised lives of "real" people and the video games we play. From the latter half of the 20th century to the contemporary moment, popular culture has constituted the social landscape of the United States. In this class, we will look closely at the manner in which forms of dominant and niche popular culture engage with the themes of science and technology. With end-of-the-world proclamations currently in vogue, science and technology have assumed a central role in debates about the direction of the United States and human society: science and technology are viewed as both causes of and answers to global problems that seemingly threaten the existence of human and animal populations. We will explore these debates by reading scholarly articles and analyzing a number of popular cultural texts that engage with the theme of who benefits from and who is harmed by specific scientific innovations. We will trace the emergence of anxieties regarding the promises of atomic science as embodied in Watchmen's alien Dr. Manhattan, the quest for a scientifically engineered racial purity in The Boys From Brazil, the reading of social class into the genes of the characters of Gattaca, and the post-apocalyptic gender inversions of Y-The Last Man. In critically examining the popular assumption that the contemporary moment of high technological advancement in the Western world is an exceptional (if not apocalyptic) moment in human history, we will analyze the various forms of cultural difference that complicate references to a single "human race." 320.002 Cyborg Society W 10:00 - 12:30 ORTG 313 Correia Arts & Sciences group: Social Science The politics of technological change have shifted from questions about the social and ecological costs and benefits of technology to ethical and moral concerns for future developments that many argue will inexorably lead to the transformation of the very definition of life. Fundamental parameters of the human condition, it seems, are up for debate and even the human organism itself seems a subject of technology's advance. The singularity movement, in particular, organizes itself around an unbounded faith in exponential advancements in computing technology, nanotechnology and bioengineering that will, its followers claim, inevitably lead to The Singularity: the moment when technoscientific progress will send both technology and humanity past a profound threshold. After the singularity, life as we know it will take on a new form. This technogenesis, as many call it, will usher in a world where, in its most fantastic elaborations, we can create clones of ourselves and upload our consciousness as a way to achieve immortality; a world where we can genetically engineer ourselves around the biological constraints that currently make us human; where we can become not only cybernetic organisms but an entirely different species. One of the earliest and most popular advocates of The Singularity, Ray Kurzweil, has gone so far as to predict a new Technogenesis where a "coming merger of human and machine intelligence will mark the next stage in the evolution of life." In this class we will examine the science, ideology and politics of The Singularity and transhumanism more broadly. We will interrogate the politics of The Singularity. What are the ethical, moral and political dimensions of such claims and technologies? What exactly are the scientific achievements and technological advances that convince many of The Singularity? Who will control the technologies of the technogenesis? What does the celebration, or fear, of The Singularity suggest regarding contemporary science, politics and ethics in society? What of nature in a posthuman world? 330.001 Feminist Theories TR 12:30 - 1:45 MVH 2131 Levitt Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with WMST 304, Feminist Theories: Identity, Knowledge, and Power. Exploration of the intersections, connections, and tensions between feminist theory and queer, critical race, and postcolonial theories. Theoretical focus on the discussion around previous and emerging analyses of identity, knowledge/power, and justice. 330.004 Lesbian Culture & Politics TR 11:00 - 12:15 MVH 2131 Grinnell Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with WMST 335, Lesbian Culture & Politics. Descriptive and theoretical focus on lesbian women in society and within the women's movement; consideration of issues relevant to Lesbian identity. 330.008 Politics of Pornography TR 2:00 - 3:15 Wichelns Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with WMST 379, Politics of Pornography. In 1964, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously defined pornography by its effect on the viewer: "I know it when I see it." In this formulation, the designation of a film or image as "pornographic" is subjective or cultural, depending not on any specific content. What is pornography? What does it produce, reveal or examine? We begin with the debates among various "anti-porn" and "anti-censorship" feminists, which dominated discussion of pornography from the 1970s through the early 1990s. These polarized analyses, in which porn was viewed unilaterally as either exploitative or as potentially empowering "free speech," helped lay the foundations for the more complex examinations of recent years. If we take seriously explorations of sexuality as socially-mediated or constructed, a pornographic image becomes an expression of a specific cultural time and place. What does porn suggest about consumption, power, shame, race, gender, class, and nationality? How do pornographies reflect our relationships to bodies and desires that are marginalized or different from our own? 330.021 Introduction to Chicana Studies TR 12:30 - 1:45 SARAR 107 Aviles Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with CHMS 332, Introduction to Chicana Studies. This course is an interdisciplinary approach to Chicana studies through literature, art, and film. The class begins with a set of critical essays to introduce students to the field. We then turn to early literature to understand historically the emergence of a Chicana literary tradition in the post-Civil Rights age. While the class focuses on literature students will also become familiar with Chicana art, film, and scholarly criticism. Students will grasp issues and concepts central to Chicana studies and learn to utilize them in the analysis of Chicana cultural production generally and of Chicana literature in particular. 332.001 Sexuality & Culture: The Politics of Sex M 4:00 - 6:30 Brandzel Arts & Sciences group: Humanities The politics of sex are around us every day - in our laws, on our televisions and radios, and aired in heated political debates. In this course, we tackle some of the controversies associated with "the politics of sex" by examining how sex, gender, and sexuality have been constructed throughout U.S. history, culture and politics. The primary purpose of this class is to study how sexuality is racialized, classed, and gendered, with an emphasis on challenging the ways in which certain identities and practices are normalized and others marked as deviant or unnatural. In this way, AMST 332 provides a survey of feminist, queer, and LGBT theories and is, therefore, a reading intensive course. 332L.001 Sexuality & Culture Recitation W 4:30 - 5:20 ORTG 313 Fishken-Harkins 332L.001 Sexuality & Culture Recitation R 11:00 - 11:50 ORTG 313 Fishken-Harkins A discussion section focused on reading in the theory and methods of sexuality and cultural studies. One of these sections must be taken concurrently with AMST 332. 340.001 Gaming, Tourism & Pop Culture W 5:30 - 8:00 Bubb Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course will examine how commercial casinos, tribal casinos, and racinos help to shape American popular culture. The casino industry is a multi-billion dollar industry annually and gambling has become one of the world's most popular forms of entertainment. Casino gaming has transformed from small scale gaming halls to billion dollar mega-resorts. The course will provide students with a hands-on examination of a number of gaming related topics including: the psychology of gambling, regulation and operation of casinos, types of gaming, sports books & online gaming, surveillance and monitoring, marketing, tourism, and the use of entertainment. The course will require travel and fieldwork at local casinos as we examine how various forms of popular culture help to shape the gambling landscape. 340.002 Theatre History II TR 11:00 - 12:15 CTRART B147 Staff Arts & Sciences group: Fine Arts This course is offered with THEA 336, Theatre History II: 18th Century to the Present. This course surveys the history and theory of theatre and performance since the 18th century, with particular emphasis on the theatrical traditions of Europe and the United States. Course participants will learn to identify theatrical forms and styles of performance across cultures and across centuries as they become fluent in the theories and terminologies relevant for the critical, historical analysis of theatrical performance in a global context. 350.001 Blacks in Latin America TR 12:30 - 1:45 Staff Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with AFST 388, Blacks in Latin America I. A comprehensive analysis of the plight of Black people in Latin America as compared with their experiences in North America, from the 15th to 19th centuries. 350.002 Leadership & Mentoring in Urban Communities TR 3:30 - 4:45 Bubb *There will be a strong service-learning component to this class. Arts & Sciences group: Social Science This course examines the ethnic, cultural, and class problems facing children and teenagers within the urban communities of Albuquerque. The course provides students with opportunities to work interactively with community-based organizations that focus on creating educational and recreational programming and providing social services for children and teenagers of different social classes, cultures, and ethnic backgrounds. Students have opportunities to gain professional experience within different community sites as they observe, interact, and participate with community members. Each community site that the class interacts with provides students with different insights as to how professional organizations operate, how structural development and management occurs, how educational, recreational, and social programming decision making processes are conceived and implemented, and how students can implement theoretical information into practical settings while collaboratively working with others to create activities, events, and programs. The course prepares students to interact with children and teenagers who face a varying array of social and economic problems in their everyday lives. Students gain practical experience that will help them to work in social and educational settings by addressing issues such as student developmental theory, supplemental instruction, group dynamics, learning styles, success skills, and the ability to effectively communicate, interact, and problem solve when working with individuals struggling with various social and economic problems. 350.003 Race, Class, & Feminism TR 9:30 - 10:45 MVH 2131 Xu Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with WMST 325, Race, Class and Feminism. This course will open discussion on the significance of race and class as an integral component in the development of feminist movements. 350.004 Race & the Law TR 9:30 - 10:45 MITCH 211 Gipson-Rankin Arts & Sciences group: Social Science This course is offered with AFST 397, Race and the Law. This course has been developed to explore the controversial and complex topic of race through legal lenses. This course will critically analyze the present status of minorities in America and will chart the advancements and setbacks suffered by minorities by virtue of the laws constructed, observed and enforced by the dominant culture. Students will analyze whether justice has been served to all races to date, and to what extent such justice is compromised given: 1) past events in history, 2) the present structure of the legal system, and 3) the future development of the prison industrial complex. Ultimately, this course will empower students to judge whether or not Americans live in a society that is ordered by a racial hierarchy. Passion for compelling legal arguments is helpful, but not required. 350.006 Black Woman TR 12:30 - 1:45 MVH 4022 Gipson-Rankin Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with AFST 250, Black Woman. This survey course reviews the contributions of Black Women to American history. This course will study the managerial role Black women provided during the slavery era; the foundational unsung heroine role black women performed during the Civil Rights era; the internal struggle black women had during the Women's Movement; and the modern Black women's challenges and successes in crafting modern American society. An additional focus of the readings, discussions, films and student assignments will be to understand the life cycles and multiple roles of black women as mothers, daughters, helpmates, workers, and social change agents. The concepts of cuisine, music, beauty, and "sisterhood" as it pertains to the black woman will be expounded upon throughout the semester. This course will also debate where black female stereotypes originated and how they are being countered in modern culture. 350.007 Race, Nature & Disaster TR 5:00 - 6:15 Daniel Arts & Sciences group: Social Science This interdisciplinary course examines the intersections of race, politics, and environmental and biological disaster. We will look at how ideas about race in the U.S. have shaped and been shaped by social policy, global politics and economics, and U.S. foreign policy, and investigate how certain populations within and outside the U.S. become disproportionately vulnerable to wide scale disaster. Readings and discussions focus on the human made dimensions of disasters like the destruction of New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the AIDS epidemic, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. 350.041 History of Harlem Renaissance MWF 3:00 - 3:50 MVH 4022 Staff This course is offered with AFST 397, History of Harlem Renaissance. 356.001 Tribal Gaming in the US T 5:30 - 8:00 Bubb Arts & Sciences group: Humanities The Impacts of Tribal Gaming throughout New Mexico and the U.S. (Research Service Learning). This course examines the cultural, economic, and political impacts that tribal casinos are having throughout the state of New Mexico and the rest of the U.S. The tribal gaming industry is continuing to grow throughout the country, almost equaling the commercial gaming industry in terms of economic impacts such as revenue generated, jobs created, wages paid, and taxes paid. For every tribe that enters into the gaming market, their financial livelihood is on the line as well as the cultural well being of their tribal members. The course will focus on examining the cultural, economic, and political impacts that tribal casinos are having on tribal communities, surrounding non Indian communities, states, and the U.S. as a whole. By examining a number of different tribal gaming situations in New Mexico and throughout the country, we will examine how the gaming industry is reshaping and changing tribal identities. Students will have the opportunity to travel to tribal casinos and pueblos throughout New Mexico to gain cultural insight and first hand experience examining and researching the tribal gaming industry. The course will require travel and fieldwork at local tribal casinos. 358.017 U.S. Latina Writers M 4:00 - 6:30 MITCH 214 Vizcaíno-Aleman Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with CHMS 393, US Latina Writers. This class is a focused study of contemporary U.S. Latina writers. Beginning with Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek, the class charts the formation of U.S. Latina writing within and against the recent "Latin" boom in mainstream U.S. culture. We will chart this formation primarily through literature (fiction, poetry, novel-writing, personal essay), but we will also supplement the literary with critical readings, popular culture, art, and film. Readings consist of contemporary U.S. texts in English by U.S.-born and immigrant Latina writers. Assignments include short response papers, a midterm and a final, and two critical essays. Other possible readings include Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters, Judith Ortiz Cofer's An Island Like You, Junot Diaz's Drown, Graciela Limón's In Search of Bernabé, Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue, Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the War Years, and Bryce Milligan et. al. Daughter's of the Fifth Sun. 363.001 Chicano/Latino Film W 4:00 - 6:30 Meléndez Arts & Sciences group: Humanities Examines the history of Latino/a film images and depictions in America from the Silent Period to the present. Special regard is given films produced by Chicanos/Latinos in the contemporary period. In this regard, the course seeks to understand Latino/a filmmaking as a self-representational medium and as a response and an affirmation of the Latino/a 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 Latino/a subjectivity in film. The film titles we will see this semester have been selected for their subject matter and approach as well for their innovation in style and technique. A partial list of films include: Salt of the Earth, The Ring, Giant, Zoot Suit, Stand and Deliver, Break of Dawn El Norte, Mi Familia, American Me, I Am Joaquin and work by Lourdes Portillo, Sylvia Morales, Luis Valdez and other filmmakers. 485.001 Senior Seminar in US Culture M 2:00 - 4:30 ORTG 313 Schreiber Arts & Sciences Group: Humanities This seminar is required of American Studies majors. The course provides an opportunity for students to develop and strengthen their skills in research, analysis, and writing towards the production of a 20 page original senior thesis. We will begin this semester reading exemplary theses written by American Studies majors. Faculty in American Studies will also visit the class to discuss their research methodologies. Then we will work together to produce a set of our own research papers and present them in a conference setting to the American Studies community.
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