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Demonstrate knowledge of the history and culture of people of Mexican and Latin American origins in the United States, specifically within the region of Southern California.
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Examine gender as a central theme of the study of the Chicana/o community.
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Analyze the literary expression of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.
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Distinguish variations within Chicana/o communities in respect to class, culture, ethnicity, gender, race, and sexuality.
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Identify theoretical questions informing Chicana/o Studies.
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Summarize the ideas of major thinkers who have influenced this area of study in the past and present.
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Identify, locate, evaluate, synthesize and present current research and information on issues informing the experience of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os in Southern California and across the nation.
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Summarize demographic trends in the United States of the past, present, and for the future.
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Discuss the major theories and concepts of Chicana/o Studies and its subfields.
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Effectively present research findings.
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Demonstrate effective writing skills.
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Describe the diversity and heterogeneity of the Latino/a population in the United States.
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Examine the historical and contemporary relations between Latin America and the United States in connection with the divergent incorporation of Latino/a groups in U.S. society.
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Identify the most pressing societal issues affecting diverse Latino/a communities.
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Analyze cultural representations and portrayals of Latinos and Latinas in print and visual media, music and popular culture.
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Analyze narratives, images, facts and figures on the Latino/a population through writing, discussion and oral presentation.
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Articulate basic theoretical concepts of class, race/ ethnicity, gender, and sexuality as they relate to contemporary Latino/a communities.
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Identify and analyze indigenous civilizations that existed in North America prior to the European conquest.
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Record the historical migration of peoples and commerce within North America, that being present-day Mexico and the United States Southwest, prior to the European invasion.
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Discuss the astronomical, technological, mathematical, and agricultural developments of early Native American civilizations.
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Compare the religious worldviews of the various indigenous North Americans, the Spanish, and of Euro Americans, and how this came to affect social relations between these peoples.
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Illustrate within the context of the cultural syncretism of European and indigenous peoples, how European America political, commercial, and legal values and institutions came to influence Chicana/o culture.
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Analyze the nature of the historical dynamics of social stratification between Chicanas/os and European Americans beginning from the United States’ conquest of the Southwest in 1848 to the present.
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Study the factors of class, culture, and race that shaped relations between European Americans, African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, and Chicanas/os in what is today the United States from the period of the European conquest to 1995.
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Examine the Chicana/o family and the effect of political economy on gender roles.
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Appraise the expansion of the Chicana/o culture into the Southwestern part of the United States and the early nineteenth century intrusion of the dominant culture into this area.
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Analyze/examine the role western institutions have had on the Chicana/o and how the Chicana/o has historically reacted; zoot suit riots, Texas blowout, and L.A. walkouts.
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Explain ethnic identity theories and conceptual models, including ethnic identity formation theory, acculturation theory, social identity theory, and multiple worlds theory.
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Develop a greater awareness of the diversity among individuals of Latino/a descent, examining similarities and differences in language, class, appearance, family traditions, relationship and communication styles, sexual orientation, and the ethnic labels they use to identify themselves.
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Recognize the challenges and advantages of developing bicultural and bi-racial identity.
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Articulate multicultural understanding and cultural, gender and sexuality differences.
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Improve communication and collaboration skills working with peers.
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Reflect upon their own ethnic/cultural identities and how it has developed and changed over time and across family, school, peer, and community contexts.
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Demonstrate critical and analytical thinking skills in their writing, integrating the theories, methods, and/or conceptual models.
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Differentiate various empowerment models and strategies for empowering Latino/as in attaining their educational and career goals.
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Connect theories, methods and/or conceptual models with examples and insight from their own experiences and knowledge of Latinas/os growing up in a diverse society.
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Understand and discuss the relationship between the knowledge & power.
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Analyze the production of knowledge from a positivist and anti-positivist perspectives.
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Examine and critically analyze the nature of post-modern theory with respect to contemporary intellectual frameworks.
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Survey the major social theories that have informed the making of knowledge with respect to the Chicana/Chicano community and the development of Chicana/o studies as a discipline.
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Explore the major social theories and critically analyze the impact on the Chicana/Chicano community.
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Describe the major social theories as they pertain to a diverse society stratified by race, class, language, nationality, gender & sexuality.
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Investigate the nature of culture as domination and resistance within the context of mainstream American and Chicana/Chicano cultural contexts.
