Dr Santos' Office: Office: DDH - AA205 Office Hrs:  2:30 - 4:30 pm MWF,                        or by appointment Phone: (661) 664-2191

Dr. Santos' Web site & E-mail: http://www.csub.edu/~gsantos/ santos_class@csub.edu

• Camille Guerin-Gonzalez, 1994. Mexican Workers & American Dreams. Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

• Ignacio M. García, 1997. Chicanismo. The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican Americans. Tucson: Arizona University Press.

• David G. Gutiérrez, 1996. Between Two Worlds. Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Wilmington: Jaguar Books, SR Books.

• Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, & Vilma Ortiz, eds., 1997. Challenging Fronteras. Structuring Latina & Latino Lives in the U. S.. New York: Routledge.

COURSE CONTENT

This course explores the sociology of the diverse Latino peoples in the United States in the 20th century. We will focus mostly on the contemporary Mexican American experience, from the legacies of their 19th-century conquest and incorporation into the U.S. Southwest to their subordinate insertion into California's peculiar system of agro-ethnic stratification; to their acquisition of a new sense of social entitlement and cultural identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s - the Chicano Movement -, to the continuing experiences of large Mexican migration flows in and out of the U.S. and the growth of bi-residential, transborder, Mexican communities sharing life in the two countries.

We also look at some of the sociohistorical and migration experiences of Caribbean & Central American Latinos in the United States: the Puerto Ricans, the Cubans, the Dominicans; the Nicaraguans, the Salvadorans, the Guatemalans.

Attendance:

Attendance to class is mandatory. Unauthorized absences, tardiness, and/or early departures will be penalized. If you need to be excused (or leave early/arrive late) please call or talk to Dr. Santos ahead of time.

Reading Assignments, Videos, and Grupo Class Presentations:

Dr. Santos will lecture on Mondays and Wednesdays, and more briefly on Friday. Students are expected to come to class fully prepared to discuss all the assigned readings for each session. Regardless of the day of the class, informed student participation will be encouraged, noted and rewarded by Dr. Santos.

There will be video presentations on most Fridays. Students will keep video journals to record afterwards their impressions and thoughts on the videos they watched. A standard entry should be about two-to-three pages long and include penetrating observations, reactions, and critical thinking questions. At the end of the quarter students will turn in their video journals to Dr. Santos for evaluation.

The students will form groups of six students. These grupos will take turns making brief presentations (five minutes each), on Fridays, on two selections of their choice from the Challenging Fronteras anthology. Each student presentation should be based on a reaction paper at least 2 pages long (double spaced, font 10 or 12, one-inch margins), to be turned in to Dr. Santos afterwards. It is the responsibility of the grupos to divide up the topics and organize the sequence of the individual presentations to avoid duplication. They may chose a debate format, or divide the two selections in two subgroups, etc.. Students are encouraged to create their own handouts and use other class props.

Quizzes

There will be five short quizzes based on the assigned readings, given out at random during the course. Students may be quizzed on the selections from the Challenging Fronteras anthology already presented or to be presented that day - as well as on the other reading assignments covered or for that day.

Grupo Term Paper Research Projects:

Students in each grupo will also be asked to select a pertinent historico-sociological topic relating to the Latino experience in the United States, and organize and carry out a group research project on it. The subject may be panethnic (all latinos) or ethnic (one latino ethnic group); the period covered may be historic (as far back as last century), or contemporary (80s & 90s); the spatial dimension may be as small as a city or a local area, and as large as the United States; the topics may focus on the social, political, economic, demographic, and cultural conditions, trends, instituional setings, and burning issues affecting Latinos or affected by them. There are literally hundreds of possible interesting topics. The grupos must nevertheless first obtain approval for their overall topics and the individual sub topics by Dr. Santos, and do so no later than February 18.

Though the final product should reflect the grupo effort, each student will individually write his or her own contributing paper for the volume, between 10 and 13 pages in  length, double-spaced, font 10 or 12, one-inch margins. For the guidelines on how to write a good research term paper go directly to: http://www.csub.edu/~gsantos/Guide-Paper.html.

The deadline for turning in the research volume is Friday, March 17, 12:00 noon, at Dr. Santos' office. The volume should be bound, have a title page, a table of contents listing each individual title and student author, and the actual papers; continuous page numbering and a single, common bibliography are not required; each paper should start with the title and author at the top, be numbered, and have a bibliography at the end.

Grading:

The grupo class presentations are worth 15 points (5 points for each individual oral presentation, 5 points for each individual written paper, and 5 points for the overall group effort). The five quizzes are worth 25 points (5 points each). The video journal is worth 20 points. The research projects are worth 40 points (35 points for each individual paper and 5 points for the quality of the grupo volume as a whole). The final letter grade will be assigned, on a scale of 0 to 100, as follows:
 

Office Hours & Private E-Mail to Dr. Santos:

All students are encouraged to visit the instructor regularly during posted office hours (see above) or by appointment, especially to ensure their group projects are approved, well chosen and organized, their individual research papers are well focused, or to discuss any question they may have from the class lectures, the textbooks, or their grupo class presentations.

If you wish to send Dr. Santos a private message, you may do so at:

     santos_class@csub.edu

Dr. Santos prefers students either come to his office during office hours or call him by phone, rather than to receive private e-mail messages. Approval/consultation of the gruporesearch topics must be done in person at Dr. Santos office by representatives of each grupo. Ask yourself these questions before you send him an email message: (1) Is it something I can simply talk to him in his office, by phone, or after class? (2) Is it something he will be able to answer me with a short & simple reply? (3) Is it that urgent or necessary, or can it wait or is it not that important?

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