HIST 370 - Filipinx Freedom Dreams: A Social Movement History of the Filipinx Diaspora

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D; Social Justice
This course examines the historical and contemporary configurations of Filipinx communities in the United States and across the globe, to critically understand their immigration and settlement patterns, their (neo)colonial histories, their practices of identity construction, and their resistance strategies.

Prerequisites:

Completion of GE areas A1, A2, A3, and B4, all with grades of C- (CR) or better
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences, Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Examine key social, political, economic, and cultural developments in the history of the Filipinx diaspora from the 1896 Philippine Revolution to the contemporary period.
2.   Analyze the enduring impact of U.S. colonialism on the Filipinx diaspora, as well as Filipinx traditions of anti-colonial resistance.
3.   Identify the connections between Filipinx people and other racialized and colonized subjects of U.S. empire.
4.   Gain a knowledge of the theoretical frames developed by Philippine and U.S.-based historians of the Filipinx diaspora.
5.   Build critical thinking and writing skills via close examination of secondary and primary sources and writing assignments.
6.   Gain experience working collaboratively with fellow students.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.