Decolonizing Biographies
The Ethnic Studies: Action Research in the Barrio course will focus on writing and research as tools for critically reflecting on students’ lives. Action research strategies will be developed as vehicles for self and community transformation. Framed within the broad theme Challenging Poverty and Inequality, specific topics to be explored will be generative and defined alongside students and their community. Students will develop action research and social analysis skills that will assist them in critically re-framing their lives, understanding more deeply problems impacting their community with an orientation toward solving social issues. The course culminates with a research symposium.
Action Research in the Barrio
The Ethnic Studies: Action Research in the Barrio course will focus on writing and research as tools for critically reflecting on students’ lives. Action research strategies will be developed as vehicles for self and community transformation. Framed within the broad theme Challenging Poverty and Inequality, specific topics to be explored will be generative and defined alongside students and their community. Students will develop action research and social analysis skills that will assist them in critically re-framing their lives, understanding more deeply problems impacting their community with an orientation toward solving social issues. The course culminates with a research symposium.
Contemporary Chicano in Society SOC 115
This syllabus is for an introductory course on the sociological factors that have impacted historic and current Chicanx/Latinx communities. This course draws from Freirian, Critical Race Theory, and Women of Color Feminist principles of education where students dialogically engage course themes and how it impacts their lives. Students present on course themes and share insights verbally and textually throughout the semester thereby expanding their understanding of Chicanx/Latinx communities develop, sturggle, resist, and survive in our society.