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Listed below are courses for the current quarter. They are seperated according to their status as CORE, FOUNDATIONAL, THEMATIC or COGNATE. For a complete listing of courses and descriptions for the entire academic year, please refer to the individual major/minor sites. There you will also find the major/minor specific listings of required/available core, foundational, thematic and cognate courses.

Fall Quarter 2009-2010


CORE
CSRE 200X. CSRE Senior Seminar
R. Quinn, F 2:15p-4:45p (5 units)
Research and the writing of the senior honors thesis or senior paper is under the supervision of a faculty project adviser. All CSRE related students, even those who opt to write honors theses in other departments and programs must enroll in CSRE 200X, Senior Seminar, offered in autumn quarter. The course takes students through the process of research including conceptualization, development of prospectus, development of theses, research, analysis, and writing. This course meets the Writing in the Major requirement (WIM). Those who opt to write senior papers are organized into tutorial groups in autumn quarter.

FOUNDATIONAL
None offered this quarter.

THEMATIC
ASNAMST 200R. Directed Research
Staff, TBA (1-5 units)

ASNAMST 200W. Directed Reading
Staff, TBA (1-5 units)

CHICANST/CSRE 201B. From Racial Justice to Multiculturalism: Movement-based Arts Organizing in the Post Civil Rights Era
G. Hernandez, TTh 3:15p-5:05p (5 units)
How creative projects build and strengthen communities of common concern. Projects focus on cultural reclamation, multiculturalism, cultural equity and contemporary cultural wars, media literacy, independent film, and community-based art. Guest artists and organizers, films, and case studies.

CHICANST 200R. Directed Reseach
Staff, TBA (1-5 units)

CHICANST 200W. Directed Reading
Staff, TBA (1-5 units)

CSRE/NATIVEAM 109B. Indian Country Economic Development
K. Biestman, W 9:00a-10:30a (5 units)
The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century strategies for sustainable economic development and protection of political and cultural sovereignty.

CSRE/NATIVEAM 123. American Indians and the Cinema
J. Shively, F 4:15p-6:05p (5 units)
Hollywood and the film industry have had a major influence on American society for nearly a century. Initially designed to provide entertainment, the cinema broadened its impact by creating images perceived as real and essentialist. Hollywood's Indians have been the main source of information about who American Indians are and Hollywood has helped shape inaccurate and stereotypical perceptions that continue to exist today. This course looks chronologically at cinematic interpretations and critically examines accurate portrayals of American Indians and of American history.

CSRE 132. Friends, Enemies, and Lovers: Interracial Encounters in American Cultures
J. Kim, W 3:15p-5:05p (5 units)
Representations of "interracial encounters" in American novels, films, and plays. How these works reflect, question, and reimagine relationships not only amongst minorities, but also between race and nation, individual and community, and art and politics. Topics: cultural appropriations; alternative histories of contact; cross-racial performances and social conflicts. Includes texts by Sherman Alexie, Luis Valdez, Anna Deveare Smith and Karen Tei Yamashita, and the films, "Do the Right Thing" and "Crash."

CSRE 133. Women and Race in the American West, 1849-1950
B. Frink, 10:00a-11:50a(5 units)
The western myth of the lone white cowboy gives little insight into women and people of color. Race and gender are crucial to the U.S. West's history, creating complex identities and social structures. Course examines lives of women of diverse races, along with mythology surrounding such figures as Sacagawea. Using novels, memoir, artwork, and film, students analyze interesting race and gender identities, and the relation between history and myth.

CSRE/AMSTD 183. Border Crossings and American Identities
C. Duffey, TTh 3:15p-4:45p (5 units)
How novelists, filmmakers, and poets perceive racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preference, and class borders in the context of a national discussion about the place of Americans in the world. How Anna Deavere Smith, Sherman Alexie, or Michael Moore consider redrawing such lines so that center and margin, or self and other, do not remain fixed and divided. How linguistic borderlines within multilingual literature by Caribbean, Arab, and Asian Americans function. Can Anzaldúa's conception of borderlands be constructed through the matrix of language, dreams, music, and cultural memories in these American narratives? Course includes examining one's own identity.

CSRE 131. Race and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Literature
Staff, TBA (5 units)

CSRE 198. Internship for Public Service
T. Mitchell, TBA (1-5 units)
Restricted to CSRE comparative studies majors with a concentration in public service. Students consult with the CSRE undergraduate program director and CSRE affiliated faculty to develop an internship. Group meetings. May be repeated for credit.

CSRE 199. Pre-Honors Seminar
R. Quinn, F 9:00a-10:50a (1-2 units)
For students interested in writing a senior honors thesis. Conceptualizing and defining a manageable honors project, conducting interdisciplinary research, the parameters of a literature review essay, and how to identify a faculty adviser.

CSRE 200R. Directed Research
Staff, TBA (1-5 units)

CSRE 200W. Directed Reading
Staff, TBA (1-5 units)

NATIVEAM 200R. Directed Research
Staff, TBA (1-5 units)

NATIVAM 200W. Directed Reading
Staff, TBA (1-5 units)

COGNATE
  • COMPLIT 41Q. Ethnicity and Literature
    D. Palumbo-Liu / TTh 2:15PM-3:45PM / 5 units
  • EDUC 193B. Peer Counseling in the Chicano/Latino Community
    A. Martinez / Th 3:15PM-4:05PM / 1 unit
  • EDUC 149/249. Theory and Issues in the Study of Bilingualism
    G. Valdes / Tu 3:15PM-6:05PM / 5 units
  • SOC 166/266. Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanos in American Society
    Staff / TBA / 5 units
  • AFRICAAM 54. / HIST 54N. African American Women's Lives
    A. Hobbs / TTh 12:35PM-2:05PM / 5 units
  • ANTHRO 126. / URBANST 114. Cities in Comparative Perspective
    M. Inoue & A. Roque / TTh 10:00AM-11:50AM / 5 units
  • COMM 162/262. / POLISCI 323S. Analysis of Political Campaigns
    S. Iyengar / MW 9:00AM-10:50AM / 4 units
  • EDUC 165/265. / HIST 158C. History of Higher Education in the US
    L. Gordon / W 3:15PM-6:05PM / 5 units
  • ENGLISH 43/143. Introduction to African American Literature
    A. Rampersad / MTWTh 10:00AM-10:50AM / 3-5 units
  • FEMST 101. Introduction to Feminist Studies
    K. Coll / MW 1:15PM-3:05PM / 5 units
  • HIST 51/151. Slavery and Freedom in American History
    J. Campbell / TTh 12:35PM-2:05PM / 5 units
  • HIST 185B. Jews in the Modern World
    S. Zipperstein / TTh 11:00AM-12:30PM / 5 units
  • HUMBIO 129 Critical Issues in International Women's Health
    A. Murray / MW 11:00AM-12:15PM / 4 units
  • ILAC 193. The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
    J. Ballo / T 2:15PM-4:05PM / 4 units
  • POLISCI 120B. Parties, Voting, the Media, and Elections
    G. Segura / MW 10:00AM-11:50AM / 5 units
  • PSYCH 25 Psychology, Inequality, and the American Dream
    G. Walton / MW 2:15PM-3:30PM / 3 units
  • SOC 46N. Race, Ethnic, and National Identities: Imagined Communities
    M. Rosenfeld / TTh 3:15PM-4:05PM / 3 units
  • SOC 45Q. Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society
    C. Snipp / M 1:15PM-3:05PM / 5 units
  • SOC 155/255. The Changing American Family
    M. Rosenfeld / TTh 11:00AM-11:50AM / 5 units



     
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