CRN	93092	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	SST 111
Title	The Question Race
Professor	Aureliano DeSoto
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 308

Cross-listed: American Studies, Human Rights

Race remains one of the most prominent divisions in human societies around the globe. This course seeks to introduce students to race, posed as a series of questions: What is race? Why is race important? How does race affect social, political, and cultural arguments? The course offers a wide series of readings, focused both on the national and international dimension of race and identity, to begin to answer some of these questions in a broad-based, introductory manner. This is a required core course for concentrators in Critical and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Open to all students.

CRN	93091	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	SST 232
Title	Introduction to Race and Visual Analysis
Professor	Aureliano DeSoto
Schedule	Mon 2:00 pm -5:00 pm WEIS THTR. Wed 2:00 pm -4:00 pm OLIN 201

Cross-listed: American Studies, Film and Electronic Arts

Film has been an enormously important phenomenon in determining how audiences see themselves and the world around them. This introductory course focuses on cinematic representations of race and scholarly analysis, with weekly screenings and readings focused around a single film. Films for the course include commercial mainstream productions as well as independent and alternative film and video The goals of the course are to give students the initial tools in reading and analyzing images: reading and describing film images, doing a sequence analysis, and the ability mix shot analysis and interpretation in a small, focused essay.

CRN	93093	Distribution	B/C
Course No.	SST 305
Title	Latina/o Cultural Polemics
Professor	Aureliano DeSoto
Schedule	Tu 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 305

Cross-listed: American Studies, CCSRE, Gender Studies, Human Rights, LAIS

This course offers a detailed study of the dimensions of debate by Latina/o cultural producers and scholars regarding the issues confronting Latina/o communities through readings of Latina/o polemical writing, including radical memoir, manifesto, political poetry, performance art, independent film, and the critical essay. Topics include: cultural nationalism, sexual identities, feminist politics, political action and resistance, borderlands theory, and the rhetoric of cultural identity. This course serves as a junior seminar for concentrators in Critical and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

Courses cross-listed with CCSRE:

ANTH 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 111 Field Methods in Archaeology

PHIL 104 Introduction to Philosophy

PSY 235 Counseling from a Multicultural Perspective

SOC 120 Inequality in America

SOC 208 Sociology of Whiteness