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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course explores how lived experiences, sociocultural relations, and connections to place shape the constructs of individual and collective identities. Students will develop a conscious awareness of place by critically engaging with the Manito diaspora, Indigenous ways of knowing, Anglo-Texan working-class culture, Mexican-American borderlands, and Black rural and urban experience. Prerequisite: junior standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed to provide an overview of United States Latina/o Theater. Through a variety of delivery methods, students are instructed on the various categories that directly impact U.S. Latina/o Theater such as political theatre, gay/lesbian theatre, border issues, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Dual listed with CHST 5100. Cross listed with WMST 4100. Prerequisites: 6 hours of CHST or WMST coursework.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines illegal drug commodity chains and international efforts to police the drug trade in the Americas. It approaches the drug war through a "critical geopolitics" framework, also covering broader themes such as international politics, livelihoods, development, environmental justice, the global economy, race-based discrimination, public health, and resistance movements. Cross listed with GEOG 4445, INST 4445/5445, and POLS 4445/5445. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or social science coursework.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides a survey of the origins, development and contemporary folklore of the Mexican American Chicano people of the United States with comparative relation to Mexico and other groups in the United States. Cross listed with ENGL 4470. Prerequisites: CHST 1100 and WA or COM1.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Latina Diaspora combines classroom activities and a week-long stay abroad in examining the historical creation and contemporary spread of the Latino Diaspora from the Caribbean to the Yucatan and beyond. U.S. Latina/o history, multiculturalism, pan-Latino identity, assimilation, migration trends and natives responses are stressed. Cross listed with HIST/INST 4485. Prerequisite: 9 hours of CHST, HIST, and/or INST related coursework.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores the meaning and impact of revolution in Latin America's modern history, focusing on political ideology, cultural expression, foreign relations, human rights, and globalization. Offers in-depth analysis of revolutions from the early nineteenth century to the present. Cross listed with HIST 4492. Prerequisites: 3 hours of relevant course work in HIST (e.g., 2290, 2380, 4495, 4496)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Intensive course in Mexican development. Emphasizes the twentieth century, especially the Mexican Revolution of 1910, showing how this nation transformed itself into a modern nation-state. Includes diplomatic relations with the U.S., incorporation of Indians, church-state relations, uses of land and other natural resources, role of the military and growth of Mexican nationalism. Cross listed with HIST 4496. Prerequisite: 9 hours of HIST or INST.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores the Southwest as a location of cultural encounters and conflicts. Focuses on the cross-cultural interchange between American Indians, Mexican Indians and Anglo Americans from the fifteenth century to the present. Cross listed with HIST 4525 and AIST 4525. Prerequisites: HIST1210/1211, 1220/1221.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Addresses multiple themes related to diversity in agriculture with the goal of making visible the experiences of minorities and women in agriculture. Involves significant independent research, class discussion, project development, and development of oral and written communication skills. Establishes linkages with supporting disciplines. Cross listed with ENGL/AIST/FCSC/AGRI/HIST/AMST 4546. Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor and concurrent enrollment or major in any of the following: ethnic studies, agriculture, American studies, anthropology, English, history, sociology, or women's studies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Through a critical regional lens this course examines the production of the region via history, landscape, geographic location, social relations, cultural practices, and economic factors. As a multiply colonized region, this course utilizes decolonial, ethnographic, and intersectional approaches to engage with understandings of space, ethnic/race relations, and constructions of subjectivity. Prerequisite: junior standing.