The University of Texas at El Paso Chicano Studies 3301: La Chicana Fall 2009 Saturday 9:00-11:50 am Instructor: Ms. Jesse S. Arrieta, M.A. Office: Academic Advising Center Building (Located next to Liberal Arts) Phone: 915-747-6815 Office Hours: W 2-3 & F 11-12 and by appointment Email: jsarrieta@utep.edu Course Description: La Chicana is an interdisciplinary examination of the socioeconomic, political, and cultural forces that affect the status of Chicanas in American society. Special consideration will be given to the role of Chicanas in the Women s and Chicano Movements, as well as the Mexican/Chicana confluence in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Furthermore, this course will examine the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in relation to the formation and study of Chicana identities and its impact on society. La Chicana is a multidisciplinary approach of the analysis of the historical, political, cultural, and social forces that have lead to the understanding and emergence of la Chicana in the United States. Texts from a variety of fields and disciplines will be presented for review and discussion. This will be done in order to demonstrate different conceptions on and about la Chicana through the review and analysis of categorical conceptualizations such as the social construction of gender; class, ethnicity, color, race, and sexual orientation as they influence la Chicana. Students will demonstrate an awareness of past and current issues in social and political arenas that influence the theoretical understanding of la Chicana. Texts and Materials: Reading packet to be purchased at Print Spot, 4224 N. Mesa, Suite B (838-7772) hours M-F 8-5:30 Fregoso, Rosa Linda. MeXicana Encounters. University of California Press: Berkley, 2003. ISBN: 0-520- 22997 available at UTEP bookstore Policies and Procedures Attendance: Attendance in class is important for your academic success; satisfactory attendance is a course requirement. Unsatisfactory attendance consists of absences, and tardiness (15 minutes or more will be considered an absence), leaving the classroom early, or coming to class unprepared to participate (without texts and or assignments). You are expected to arrive to class on time as a courtesy to your classmates and instructor. No absences will be excused (not counted) unless they result from carrying out official, verifiable university business (university sanctioned events such as athletics etc.) or observing a religious holiday recognized by UTEP, in those cases you will need to notify the instructor before hand. If you incur more than 3 instances of unsatisfactory attendance the instructor has the right to withdraw you from the course. If you wish to drop the course with a W please do so before the drop date of October 30, 2009.. If you reach a total of 3 instances of unsatisfactory absences after the drop date, the instructor has the right to fail ( F ) you for the course. Exceptions may be made to the above policy of the instructor deems that circumstances warrant them. Your instructor may also choose to drop you from the course if you are late to class on a regular basis. If you are 15 minutes late to class, it is considered an absence. Should you miss a class, you are still responsible for everything that is covered in that class. Missing class or being late is no excuse for missing a due date or misunderstanding an assignment. REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU MISSED CLASS, ALL WORK MUST BE TURNED IN ON THE DAY IT IS DUE. **Save all your work, if I ask for a second copy, it s YOUR responsibility to have a copy available.** **NO WORK will be accepted via email, you must turn in work in person!**
Late Work: You must complete all assignments and turn them in when requested, even if you cannot be in class when the assignment is due, it is still due. Late work will have 10 points deducted per day and will be reduced one letter grades for everyday it is late. Extra Credit: Absences: 0 days = 5 points; 1 day = 2 points; 2 days = 1 point; 3 or more days = 0 points to FINAL GRADE! Service Learning- Center for Civic Engagement- Ni Una Mas. 5 points added to final grade. NOTE: There is no make-up for daily work. Quizzes, in-class activities, and exercises cannot be made up. In other words, come to class; be on time with your work completed. Other Policies: Students are expected to turn off cell phones and refrain from using cell phones, PDAs etc. for the duration of the class. All written assignments will be evaluated on the basis on organization of ideas, clarity of expression, grammar, spelling and punctuation. Be certain to proofread your work before submitting. Points will be deducted for mechanical, grammatical, and stylistic errors. Format: All outside work must be word processed (TYPED), using Chicago style (NOT MLA), on White Paper, Double Spaced, 12 inch Times New Roman Font, with page numbers and stapled. NO EXCEPTIONS Avoid compound words. ALL PAPERS TURNED IN MUST HAVE A COVER PAGE AND A WORK CITED PAGE. Failure to follow the format given will result in an automatic 10 point deduction. All work completed in class must be legible and in BLACK OR BLUE INK ONLY. Academic Dishonesty: Academic dishonesty is prohibited and is considered a violation of the UTEP Handbook of Operating Procedures. It includes, but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, and collision. Cheating may involve copying from or providing information to another student, processing unauthorized materials during a test, or falsifying research data on laboratory reports. Plagiarism occurs when someone intentionally or knowingly represents the words or ideas of another person s as ones own. Collusion, involves collaborating with another person to commit any academically dishonest act. Any act of academic dishonesty attempted by a UTEP student is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Violations will be taken seriously and will be referred to the Dean of Students Office for disciplinary action. Students may be suspended or expelled from the University for such actions. Students with Disabilities I will make any reasonable accommodations for students with limitations due to disabilities, including learning disabilities. Please see me personally before or after class in the first two weeks or make an appointment, to discuss any special needs you might have. If you have a documented disability and require specific accommodations you will need to contact the Disabled Students Services Office in the East Union Bldg., Room 106 within the first two weeks for classes. The Disabled Students Services Office can also be reached in the following ways: Web: http://www.utep.edu/dsso; Phone: 747-5148; Fax: 747-8712; Email: dss@utep.edu Cooperative Learning: We will consider this the Buddy System of this course and you will refer to other students to help you with missed lectures/material. (See attendance)
Course Requirements and Grade Percentages: Daily Work (quizzes, in class assignments, participation, attendance) 30% Article Group Presentations/ Article Summary 15% MeXicana Encounters Midterm Exam 20% Film analysis (2) 15% Final Exam/ Chicana Oral History Research Paper & Presentation 20% Grading Scale: 100-90 = A 89-80 = B 79-70 = C 69-60 = D < 59 = F Course Calendar: PLEASE NOTE: All dates are tentative and subject to change with advanced notice. At the discretion of the instructor, you may receive a quiz on assigned readings. WEEK 1: Introduction to Course S (8/29): Introduction to class, review syllabus, in class reading/writing assignment, group assignments, course expectations WEEK 2: Introduction to Study of Identity. What s in a Name? S (9/5): Martinez, Elizabeth, Seeing More Than Black and White, in De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. South End Press, 1998. (Jesse) *Turn in Chicana terminology 1-2 page response September 9 Last Day to drop with a W WEEK 3: La Malinche S (9/12): Del Castillo, Adelaida R. Malintzin Tenepal: A Preliminary Look into a New Perspective. Encuentro Femenil, Vol 1, No. 2, 1974:pp.58-77. (TEAM 1) Lanyon, Anna. Malinche and Malinche and Cortez in Malinche s Conquest. Griffin Press, Australia, 1999. pgs 77-94. (TEAM 2) **Suggested reading: Leon-Portilla, Miguel. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Beacon Press: Boston, MA. 1992.** WEEK 4: La Chicana Historically S (9/19): Gonzalez, Deena J. La Tules of Image and Reality: Euro-American Attitudes and Legend Formation on a Spanish-Mexican Frontier in de la Torre, Adela, and Beatriz M. Pesquera, editors Building With Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies. Berkley: University of California Press, c 1993. (TEAM 3) Castillo, Ana. The Ancient Roots of Machismo in Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma. New York: Plume, 1995. 63-84. (TEAM 4)
WEEK 5: Contemplating Mestiza Consciousness S (9/26): Anzaldua, Gloria. La conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999. 99-116. (TEAM 5) WEEK 6: Border Feminism, Globalism, and MeXicana Imagery S (10/3): MeXicana Encounters Chapters 1 & 4 (TEAM 6, Ch 1 & 2) (TEAM 7, Ch 3 & 4) WEEK 7: Chicanas on Film S (10/10): FILM: MI VIDA LOCA **Suggested film: Luminarias** WEEK 8: MeXicana Identities in film S (10/17): MeXicana Encounters Chapters 5-8, and epilogue (TEAM 8, Ch 5 & 6) (TEAM 9, Ch 7 & 8) WEEK 9: Ni Una Mas! S (10/24): Staudt, Kathleen. Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Framing Perspectives, in Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez. University of Texas Press: Austin, 2008. pgs 1-26. (TEAM 10) Presentation Dr. Staudt (tentative) WEEK 10: Feminicidios de Cuidad Juarez S (10/31): FILM: Señorita Extraviada *MeXicana Encounters Midterm Essay Due* **Suggested film: Bordertown** WEEK 11: Tejana Identities S (11/7): Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten. Politics, the Chicano Movement, and Tejana Feminism in Las Tejanas 300 Years of History. University of Texas Press: Austin, 2003. pgs 249. (TEAM 11) Documentary CHICANO! WEEK 12: Confronting Chicana/o Stereotypes S (11/14): FILM: Quinceñera
WEEK 13: Transgender Chicana Identities S (11/21): Heidenreich, Linda. Learning From the Death of Gwen Araujo?-Transphobic Racial Subordination and Queer Latina Survival in the Twenty-First Century, Chicana/Latina Studies 6: 1 Fall 2006. (TEAM 12) FILM: A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story **Suggested film: Boys Don t Cry** WEEK 14: What is a Chicana? S (11/28): Martinez, Elizabeth, In Pursuit of Latina Liberation, in Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings, ed. Alma M. Garcia. (New York: Routledge, 1997), 164. (TEAM 13) Presentation National Marrow Donor Program **Suggested reading: Martinez, Elizabeth. 500 Years of Chicana Women s History : 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana. Rutgers University Press, 2008.** WEEK 15: Final S (12/5): Turn in Final Paper and Reflection session