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ChS 500
Chicano Studies 500
Professor Roberto Sifuentes, Office: J. Richfield Hall 143B
Chs 500 is a seminar which comprises research and investigation in disciplines included in Chicano Studies eg. history, literature etc. It is study of methods and techniques of research used and their application to Chicana and Chicano Studies.
This seminar is designed to examine the texts and expressions of the human culture as related to the Chicanos both men and women. The seminar studies methods used in literature, the social sciences and the arts. The means and tools that help us is define the characteristics of the Chicano existential reality. The relationships between individuals and cultures as they expressed themselves through language, philosophy, religion, literature and the visual and performing arts. The review attempts to observe interactions within Western and Mesoamerican traditions and in the context of other culture and societies. These studies include self definitions, relationships of such expresions, and an approach to explore the Chicano's actual conditions as an integral member of the human family.
The Seminar includes activities in the area of bibliograpic research, specific area studies as arranged with the instructor, round table thematic conferences where every member of the seminar participates, lectures, readings and audio visual materials as well as major selected topics designed to examine the trajectory defined by man and woman (Chicanos and Chicanas) in society, to this effect the questions to be explored could be included in any area of human expression i.e. language, ideology, history literature, folklore, the arts, and areas of interest to the participants of the seminar.
Classes for this course will meet three hours a week on Wednesdays. Attendance is mandatory for successful completion of the course.
Course requirements
Chicano Studies 500 is a seminar where intensive participation, intensive libray research, and weekly reports are required. Timely readings and writing assignments are key to participating in the seminar activities.
Participation as a presenter in a round table where original student essays will be presented and discussed with other emmbers of the seminar.
Weekly reports on specific assignments will be required. A scholarly essay (25-40 pages) is required and due one week before the week of final exams. Such essay is key to a sucessful completion of the course.
Timely attendance is required, any inexcused absenteism may affect final grades.
Required Texts - Found in the bookstore
Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Luis Leal, Aztlan y Mexico
Newman, Social Research Methods
Rene Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory of Literature
Tools
Chicano Studies Manuals, bibliographies, journals, dictionaries and other publications related.
Research Manual: Modern Language Association.
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Manuals on the history of literature
Manuals on the history of philosophy
Manuals on the history of art
Manuals on the study of folklore
Journals and publications in Literature and related areas
Bibliographic publications related to the chicano experience
Partial bibliography:
Miguel Leon Portilla, Aztec Thought and Culture
Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols
Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
Octavio Paz, The Labirinth of solitude, Piedra de sol
Juan Gomez-Quinonez, Sembradores
Americo Paredes, With a Pistol in His Hand-The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.
Aztlan-International Journal of Chicano Studies Research,
Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes, The Temple of Confessions.
Luis Leal, Aztlan y Mexico.
Luis Leal, A Decade of Chicano Literature, 1970-1979.
W. Lawrence Newman, Social Research Methods-Qualitative and Quantitative Aproaches.
Bibliographic activities related to literary
research and investigation
1. Use of dictionaries and encyclopedias as related to different disciplines in the Social Sciences, the Arts and the Humanities. Evaluation of the most important common dictionaries, dictionaries of authorities, etymological, literary, dictionaries of concepts, citations, vocabularies, and refrain collections.
2. Use and evaluation of the most important manuals, the value of anthologies, and most important anthologies classified by epoch. The student should be familiar with manuals and anthologies as related to disciplines important to Chicano studies both men and women.
3. Use and evaluation of the most important historical manuals in order to understand the specific eras related to the studies chosen.
4. Use of text collections, evaluation and differences.
5. Use of special and general bibliographies. The journals in special disciplines.
6. Journals related to disciplines in the humanities, Chicano studies journals, their evaluation and comparisons.
7. The problems encountered with the editions of certain publications; comparisons between first editions, facsimile editions, principal editions, annotated editions, paleographic edition and diplomatic editions.
Problems of Investigation
1. Problems presented by the text. Difficulties arisen from the texts in relation to the eras. The variants. Evaluation of the variants and final decisions.
2. Biographic problems. Acquisition of documents. Utilization of data and documents. Adaptation of biographical data to the critique.
3. The bibliography. Utilization of prior works. Reading a work in order to gather important data. Bibliographic cards. The text card. Developmental tablets. How to develop a textual transcription How to do a citation.
4. Source studies. Intention of these studies. Their value. How to investigate a source and how to elaborate the material
5. Studies in literary history. Their value. Comparative literature. Evaluation and criticism.
6. Philological studies. Evaluation. Cautionary use of philology. How to annotate a text in a philological manner.
7. Stylistic studies. Definition and history. How to investigate the style. Evaluation and criticism of stylistics.
8. Sociological criticism. Definition and history. Intention and accomplishments. Evaluation.
9. Psychological criticism. Definition and history. Intention and accomplishments. Evaluation.
10. Formal and structural criticism. The structural sense of the work of art. Definition of a structures. Evaluation and criticism.
11. Critical impressionism. Values and errs. Critical eclecticism.
12. Development of a final work. Recommended precautions. Its publication. Problems of publication in given areas and languages.
ChS 500 Weekly Schedule
Introduction, Defining the Discipline of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Thematic approach for seminar research, research interest and preliminary bibliography
Assignament: contemporary periods
Video presentations, continued developmentof reserch topics and interest in the humanities.
The Chicano Experience, reading assignments and relationships of various disciplines related to specific research interests.
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