Spring 2025 New CHLS Course: CHLS 412A-01 Centralizing Latinx Narratives: Seminar in Writing Self
November 21, 2024 - March 2, 2025
Debuting in Spring 2025 is a new Chicano and Latino Studies class
CHLS 412A-01 (#9949)
Centralizing Latinx Narratives: Seminar in Writing Self
3 units
Fridays, 10am-12:45pm.
The class consists of the following attributes:
• Fulfills the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement as a writing intensive course.
• Provides a Zero-Cost Supplies experience for students. (No textbook, etc. purchases required).
• Meets in hybrid mode (on-campus for the first six weeks of the semester and online for the remaining ten weeks).
Course Description: Students practice autoethnography as an act of writing about self to explore and understand one’s culture. Examines Latinx autobiography and memoir, theories on autoethnographies as decolonial methodology, and creative processes of narrating lived experiences. Students write and workshop autoethnographies to generate knowledge of self and community.
Dr. Loretta Ramirez