Survey and theoretical foundations in Puerto Rican and Latin@ studies. Case study on Puerto Rico. Pertinent themes in Puerto Rican and Latin@ history, culture, literature, contemporary society, and politics. Impact of the United States’ economic policies on Puerto Rico and the causes of Puerto Rican and Latin@ migration to New York City and urban centers. Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core U.S. Experience in its Diversity requirement.

Survey and theoretical foundations in Puerto Rican and Latin@ Studies. Case study on Puerto Rico. Pertinent themes in Puerto Rican and Latin@ history, culture, literature, contemporary society, and politics. Impact of the United States? economic policies on Puerto Rico and the causes of Puerto Rican and LatinX migration to New York City and urban centers. Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core US Experience in Its Diversity requirement.
This is an inter— and trans-disciplinary course which has two main objectives. The first is to critically introduce students to the theoretical foundations in Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies, both broadly defined. While the course places Puerto Rico as the central focus and as a case study of the class, corresponding spaces within the Spanish Caribbean will also be placed into analysis in order to examine the pertinent and current themes in Puerto Rican and Latinx history, culture, literature, and politics. Specific focus will be placed on the impact of the complex relationship of Puerto Rico with the United States since 1898 related but not limited to the economic, cultural, psychological, and political impacts on the Puerto Rican people both on the island and within the Union. In addition, the investigation will explore the multi-faceted causes of Puerto Rican and Latinx migration to New York City and urban spaces in the U.S.

Official Course Description

“Survey and theoretical foundations in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. Case study on Puerto Rico. Pertinent themes in Puerto Rican and Latino history, culture, literature, contemporary society, and politics. Impact of the United States’ economic policies on Puerto Rico and the causes of Puerto Rican and Latin@ migration to New York City and urban centers.”

Course Overview

This course aims to familiarize students with Puerto Rican and Latin@ Studies by providing an interdisciplinary survey of the fields theoretical foundations. The course overviews the important historical, political and economic context that has created and influenced the Puerto Rican and Latin@ diaspora in the United States. It explores central themes within the discipline, including immigration, identity, gender and sexuality, culture and literature. The course analyzes the influence of Puerto Rican and Latino communities on urban centers, popular culture and politics.

A Brief Note on the terms Latino/Latinx/Latine:

A majority of this course covers the diversity and heterogeneity that fall under the singular designation of “Latino”. Many course readings (given their time period and purpose) may use the term “Hispanic”, “Latino”, or “Latinx”. In the last few years, “Latinx” has been used to identify one’s indigenous roots, and more recently, to describe works that critically engage with questioning and challenging heteronormative functions that suppress diasporic Latin American and Hispanic- Caribbean people in the United States. During our class discussions, “Latinx” can be used at the discretion of students to demonstrate course material’s inclusivity of LGBTQ experiences.

Course Learning Goals

– Develop an understanding of the interdisciplinary theoretical foundations of Puerto Rican and Latinx studies.
– Develop an understanding of the factors that contributed to the rise of Latinx activism within the US, and how these movements have impacted political participation and the treatment of Latinx’s in the US.
– Recognize and understand the historical economic, political and social context from which Puerto Rican and Latinx immigration and diaspora has emerged.
– Articulate an understanding of how the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, class, immigration status, and nationality relate to the diversity of Latinx experiences in the US.
– Utilize their understanding of the history background of different groups within the Latinx community to analyze their current social and economic well-being, as well as their political participation.
– Be capable of critically analyzing and discussing current issues within the Puerto Rican and Latinx communities related to the current political, social and economic order in the US, as well as how the Latinx experience related to other minority groups within the US

Official Course Description
"Examine critical research issues in Puerto Rican and Latinx studies. Introduce students to a
variety of ways of thinking about “knowledge" and to specific ways of knowing and making
arguments in Puerto Rican and Latinx studies using key humanistic, social science, and
"interdisciplinary methodologies."
Course Overview
How do we study U.S. Latino and Caribbean populations and cultures? Some read literature,
watch a film, read a history book… and others conduct interviews, do field work to identify and
describe social and cultural practices, or collect oral histories and traditions. Are you interested
in learning how to use different sources and methods to learn more about ethnic communities
in the United States? What is the contribution of ethnic studies to our knowledge about migrant
and underrepresented populations and their cultural manifestations? This class is a basic
introduction to cultural and social science research methods with a focus on Caribbean and Latino
Studies.
Furthermore, the course will introduce you to the research process, including how researchers
select topics, formulate research questions, design research, and analyze and interpret data. It
will explore differences in how these issues present themselves and are addressed in designs that
are quantitative, qualitative or both.
A Brief Note on the terms Latino/Latinx/Latine:
A majority of this course covers the diversity and heterogeneity that fall under the singular
designation of “Latino”. Many course readings (given their time period and purpose) may use the
term “Hispanic”, “Latino”, or “Latinx”. In the last few years, “Latinx” has been used to identify
one’s indigenous roots, and more recently, to describe works that critically engage with
questioning and challenging heteronormative functions that suppress diasporic Latin American
and Hispanic-Caribbean people in the United States. During our class discussions, Latinx/Latine
can be used at the discretion of students to demonstrate course material’s inclusivity of LGBTQ
experiences.

Impact of Latin@ demographic, political, and cultural trends. Education, economic disparities, political empowerment, and on-going challenges to Latin@s. Identity, citizenship, cultural production, Latinidad, and Latinization.

This is an advanced inter and trans-disciplinary course which has two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate applied research and methodology, through social-historical analysis, to pressing and relevant phenomena of inquiry in Puerto Rican and LatinX Studies. The course is heavily focused on examining pertinent issues as it exists within Puerto Rican and LatinX communities in the United States and in Puerto Rico. Students will engage critical and contextualized analyses within the multi-faceted realities of LatinX population in the United States. The course also seeks to demonstrate the cross-analytical understanding of the various frameworks that can be employed to conduct social analysis (i.e.,, literary, social-historical, and cultural) although the central lens of the course is its social-historical variant.

A People’s History of New York City traces the history of NYC through the experiences of Immigrant and Migrant communities. By tracing common threads between these groups the City’s modern relevance, as well as its present tensions is unveiled. Highlighted are economic and social struggles for equity, justice and liberation from the marginalized groups who allowed for the creation of arguably the most significant metropolis of the present era.

The Political Imagination: Introduction to American Government provides realistic, critical analysis as well as a hopeful, engagement-oriented narrative that encourages students to understand the important role they can play in the political system and in crafting a society in which they want to live. The Political Imagination draws on social and political theory and history offering an analytical as well as normative framework to think about the substance of politics, the procedures and institutions of government, and a dynamic, socially contingent definition of political power.

This is a very brief PowerPoint covering some key ideas in Machiavelli's THE PRINCE.

Assessment of OER materials for the Birth of Europe course at York College

The first novel by newspaper columnist Fanny Fern (Sarah Payson Willis Parton) about a woman who overcomes misfortune, poverty, and sexism to make her own way in teh world with her wit and her pen. After the death of her husband, Ruth Hall receives little support from her family and must provide for herself and her two daughters. Originally published in 1854, Ruth Hall is based on Fanny Fern's own experiences as a working woman breaking into the male-dominated field of newspaper writing.

SPA321 - 3 hours, 3 credits. Readings from representative works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
El curso está dedicado al examen de la situación de la mujer en la sociedad patriarcal y el compromiso abolicionista durante los siglos XVIII y XIX. Tras una contextualización sumaria sobre los problemas que subyacen a la naturalización acrítica del canon y la periodización hegemónica, debatiremos sobre los estigmas que pesaron sobre las mujeres que querían dedicarse a la literatura; discutiremos el perdurable impacto que tuvo el modelo de domesticidad del “ángel del hogar” y finalmente analizaremos la contradictoria posición ideológica encarnada en el teatro abolicionista español durante este período: Zinda de María Rosa de Gálvez y La cadena rota de Faustina Sáez de Melgar.
De entre los autorxs considerados, prestaremos atención prioritaria a tres escritoras (María Rosa de Gálvez, María del Pilar Sinués, y Faustina Sáez de Melgar), si bien también nos familiarizaremos con autoras notables como María Josefa de Massanés, Carolina Coronado, Rosario de Acuña, Rosalía de Castro y Dolores Cabrera. Como contrapunto a los textos de estas autoras, atenderemos la opinión diversa de autores varones como Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Henrik Ibsen y Juan Pedro Criado.
Se trata de un curso presencial, de asistencia obligatoria, ofertada para estudiantes del programa subgraduado de español.

Marked with a red letter "A" on her dress, Hester Prynne is notorious in her Puritan society. Everyone wants to know who fathered her illegitimate child. In spite of the rumors, shunning and shame, Hester keeps her secretÑwith unexpected consequences.

A selection of 75 poems from Petrarch's Canzoniere with additional audiovisual and other resources.

This course examines the social construction of gender and sexuality throughout history and across cultures as a part of the urban experience. From the historical shifts in the organization of marriage and reproduction, social mores about heteronormativity, and cross-cultural narratives of sex taboos and allowances, we will examine theories and examples to understand gender and sexuality as central aspects of city life. Our coursework will blend historical analysis, the study of current events, and discussions on topics such as non-normative sexual subjectivities, domestic violence, gender roles and parenting, the commodification of sexuality, and body autonomy.

A Collection of 30 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving. The collection includes two stories, attributed to the fictional character Diedrich Knickerbocker: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Originally published seially 1819-20; this text is based on the author's revised and expanded edition, published in 1848.

The United in Anger Study Guide facilitates classroom and activist engagement with Jim Hubbard‰Ûªs 2012 documentary, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. The Study Guide contains discussion sections, projects and exercises, and resources for further research about the activism of the New York chapter of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). The Study Guide is a free, interactive, multimedia resource for understanding the legacy of ACT UP, the film‰Ûªs role in preserving that legacy, and its meaning for viewers' lives.