CHIC 3352 is also offered in Fall 2022
CHIC 3352 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2017 | CHIC 3352 Section 001: Transnational Chicana/o Theory: Global Views/Borderland Spaces (17208)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 335
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- 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. Dnamics of borderland spaces.
- Class Description:
- The course will focus on the U.S./Mexico border as a site of personal, cultural, and political tension?a militarized contact zone in which identity is continually negotiated and reconstructed along ethnic and national lines. Topics covered will include the ongoing femicide in Juarez and its connection to globalization, current and historical immigration debates, the effects of the physical U.S./Mexico border on indigenous communities, Chicana feminist theories of cultural hybridity (i.e. mestizaje), and transnational cultural exchanges in film, music, literature, and art. We will be reading 2 novels, assorted articles, and Gloria Anzaldua's seminal text, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, as well as various popular culture texts (i.e.: films, music, television shows, etc.).
- Grading:
- 40% Reports/Papers
10% In-class Presentations
50% Class Participation
- Workload:
- 20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: Four, 5-7 page papers due throughout the semester. No final exam/research paper
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17208/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 14 November 2014
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2017 Chicano Studies Classes