ES 329 - Chicanx/Latinx Cultural Production: Activism, Identity, Resistance
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity
Survey of Latinx cultural producers and their contributions to Latinx political projects. The course will include discussions of cultural reclamation, decolonization, gender/sexual liberation, racism, economic justice, and immigrant rights.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the following humanities-based principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes: cultural production, close-reading, social critique
analyze Latinx cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human;
- demonstrate how the perspectives of the Latinx arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective Latinx communities to put forward an alternative to cis-patriarchal, white supremacist, and colonial regimes of power/ knowledge.
- describe the historical and contemporary experiences of Latinx communities in the US resilience and agency of Latinx cultural workers;
- identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by Latinx cultural workers to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
- analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect Latinx communities’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in Latinx identities and cultural resistance; and
- recognize how queer, undocumented, feminist, and variously racialized Latinx cultural workers use cultural production to complicate our understanding of Latinx identities.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
- identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
- analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
- recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.
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