This course introduces the student to Folklorico dance from Mexico and how it is embedded in cultural significance. Students will learn the fundamentals of this practice which may include footwork, postures, and dances particular to cultural regions in Mexico.

This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Chicana Studies. Includes historical and contemporary research on labor, political involvement, cultural studies and feminism.

This course provides an overview of the formations, definitions and transformations of Chicana and Chicano families. This course focuses on critically analyzing changing gender roles, contrasting parent roles and obligations, transnational parenthood, adolescent experiences and social influences within the familial context.

The seminar examines Chicano Civil Rights by exploring forms of collective social action on behalf of immigration rights/reform, education rights/reform, labor rights, treaty rights, legal justice, environmental justice, veteran's rights, and political representation.

The course focuses on critical thinking about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Course discussions will center on questions of identity and representation and the social construction of gender and sexuality in transnational Latina/o communities.

The course explores New Mexico's cultural heritage through an examination of cultural narratives and cultural landscapes and traditions, such as plazas, salas, resolanas, matanzas, and acequia culture from the past through the present day.

This course is an introduction to the field of “Critical Mystery Studies” (CMS) with an emphasis on New Mexican mysteries. We examine the meaning of these mysteries and the discourses surrounding them in their specific geographical and cultural contexts.

Special topics in Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies are interdisciplinary in nature and draw from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts. May be repeated as subject matter varies.

This course introduces the student to Folklorico dance from Mexico and how it is embedded in cultural significance. Students will learn the fundamentals of this practice which may include footwork, postures, and dances particular to cultural regions in Mexico.

This interdisciplinary course explores Mexican culture as a social construct. Student examine Mexican history from the pre-colonial era to the present and analyze racial and social identities, Indigeneity, regionalism, economic development, and immigration as expressed religion, art, film, literature, music.

This course provides an overview of Chicana/o educational experiences with the United States school system. Students will analyze historical and institutional developments that shape educational experiences of Chicanas/os through texts, theories, and methodologies.

This course explores the African presence in Mexico in four periods: the Colonial Period, the Independence movement, the Modern Period, and representations of people of African descent in contemporary Mexico.

With irrigation methodologies derived from Middle Eastern, Spanish, Mediterranean, and Indigenous peoples, acequias continue to function in the manner established in New Mexico. This class will examine the acequia cultural ecosystem and its unique traditions and practices.

This course is designed to place UNM writing (and non-writing) students into diverse community settings to work alongside students of all ages, needs, interests. Writing workshops will be offered in schools, community centers, justice settings, homeless-shelters, healthcare facilities, non-profit organizations.

Advanced seminar emphasizing synthesis of previous courses, research skills, theories and service learning in Chicana and Chicano Studies. Designed as a capstone seminar for the undergraduate program. Restriction: junior or senior standing.

The content of this course varies by semester but will provide an in-depth analysis of special topics related to Chicana and Chicano Studies. For course content, consult the Schedule of Classes.

Individual research into an area proposed by the student and conducted under the direction of a faculty member.

This course introduces the student to Folklorico dance from Mexico and how it is embedded in cultural significance. Students will learn the fundamentals of this practice which may include footwork, postures, and dances particular to cultural regions in Mexico.

This interdisciplinary course explores Mexican culture as a social construct. Student examine Mexican history from the pre-colonial era to the present and analyze racial and social identities, Indigeneity, regionalism, economic development, and immigration as expressed religion, art, film, literature, music.

This course prepares students to survey a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches, the utility of different approaches depending on theoretical perspective, and the debates in and outside the field.

This course provides an overview of Chicana/o educational experiences with the United States school system. Students will analyze historical and institutional developments that shape educational experiences of Chicanas/os through texts, theories, and methodologies.

The seminar examines Chicano Civil Rights by exploring forms of collective social action on behalf of immigration rights/reform, education rights/reform, labor rights, treaty rights, legal justice, environmental justice, veteran's rights, and political representation.

The course explores New Mexico's cultural heritage through an examination of cultural narratives and cultural landscapes and traditions, such as plazas, salas, resolanas, matanzas, and acequia culture from the past through the present day.

With irrigation methodologies derived from Middle Eastern, Spanish, Mediterranean, and Indigenous peoples, acequias continue to function in the manner established in New Mexico. This class will examine the acequia cultural ecosystem and its unique traditions and practices.

This course is an introduction to the field of “Critical Mystery Studies” (CMS) with an emphasis on New Mexican mysteries. We examine the meaning of these mysteries and the discourses surrounding them in their specific geographical and cultural contexts.

Advanced seminar emphasizing synthesis of previous courses, research skills, theories and service learning in Chicana and Chicano Studies. Designed as a capstone seminar for the graduate program.

The content of this course varies by semester but will provide an in-depth analysis of special topics related to Chicana and Chicano Studies. For course content, consult the Schedule of Classes.

Provides graduate students with the opportunity to work one-on-one with an instructor to facilitate an intensive study of a subject or the completion of a project.

Faculty-supervised investigative study that results in the development and writing of a master’s thesis. Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

Intended to support community-engaged learning and/or project-based learning in the departmental graduate program, and to enhance academic knowledge and provide students with opportunities to gain practical experience in a chosen community based or professional field.

Students will explore how discourse and critical analysis have developed since the inception of the field of Chicana and Chicano Studies until today. Students will analyze and discuss Chicana/o criticism and theoretical texts through class discussion and weekly theoretical papers. Additionally, students will construct final research paper students in which they utilize terminology, discourse, and rhetoric by Chicana and Chicano scholars to generate further discussion on critical thought by Chicana and Chicanos.

This course explores the African presence in Mexico in four periods: the Colonial Period, the Independence movement, the Modern Period, and representations of people of African descent in contemporary Mexico. Prerequisite: Spanish 401 or Spanish placement exam demonstrating a 400 nivel equivalence competency.

Provides graduate students with the opportunity to work one-on-one with an instructor to facilitate an intensive study of a subject or the completion of a project.

Faculty-supervised investigative study that results in the development and writing of a doctoral dissertation. Offered on a CR/NC basis only.