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.001 Intro to Race/Class/Ethnicity MW 6:00 8:45 Owens nd *2 Eight Weeks Arts & Sciences group: Social Sciences/Core Curriculum: Social Sciences This is an interdisciplinary introduction to the issues, and social and cultural formation of race, class and ethnicity in American life and society. The course is designed to foster an appreciation of the heterogeneity of experience in American life. The course is focused on the study of cross-cultural group relations. More specifically, this course will consider: Who are you? For most of us, self-description includes our race, class, and ethnicity, but what do these terms mean? Are these terms fixed and unchanging? This course introduces the terms, race, class and ethnicity and offers a critical discussion of their historical meaning and their meaning in modern society. We will pay attention to crosscultural and interdisciplinary themes within these definitions. 186.003 Intro to Southwest Studies M 9:00 2:00 Cordova nd *2 Eight Weeks Arts & Sciences group: Humanities/ Core Curriculum: Humanities Provides both an introduction to the complex history and culture of the southwestern United States and a demonstration of the possibilities of the interdisciplinary study of regional American culture. It is multicultural in content and multidisciplinary in methodology. Examines cross-cultural relationships among the peoples of the Southwest within the framework of their expressions and experiences in art, culture, religion, and social and political economy. More specifically, this course will consider: What is this place we call the Southwest? How is it defined- geographically, politically, and culturally? Who are the people that live there? How have their lives been transformed by social and historical forces into the cultures we see today? At the same time, how have these same groups retained their traditions, customs, and beliefs in response to change? This course will explore contemporary Southwestern cultures, their multiple voices and culture expressions, using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from geography, anthropology, history, literature, and the arts. 201.004 Introduction to Chicana/o Studies T 9:00 2:00 Cordova 2nd Eight weeks Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course is offered with CCS 201, Introduction to Chicana and Chicano Studies. This course is will introduce students to the field of Chicano/a Studies and provide an introductory exploration of historical, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the

Mexican American experience in the United States, with special reference to New Mexico. 330.002 Chuck & Chick Flicks F 10:00 3:00 Gravagne *2nd Eight Weeks Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course focuses on the interdisciplinary study of the construction of gender. Through watching films such as The Birdcage, North Country, Rabbit Proof Fence, and The Help, and reading about how gender is represented, normalized, disciplined, and contested, we will learn how the relationship of gender to sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, and age affects all our lives. 330.003 Feminist Theories F 10:00 3:00 Gravagne *1st Eight Weeks Arts & Sciences group: Humanities What is feminist theory? How does it go about depicting and rearranging the meanings of the world in order to reveal something new about the inconsistencies and injustices we live with? How does it not only interpret the needs and desires of the world but bring them into being? Through an examination of a variety of feminist theoriesliberal, cultural, Marxist, Freudian, existentialist, radical, postmodern, ecofeminist, and third wavewe will see how feminist theory opens up a breathing space between the everyday world and other possible worlds, a space in which intellectual tools for building knowledge of identity and oppression can be acquired, and political strategies for resisting subordination and domination can be developed. By looking at how feminist theory has played, and continues to play, a part in debates on issues such as personhood, equal pay and equal rights, abortion, sexual orientation, and environmental justice, we will discover how crucial its role is in the allocation of power and the construction of a more just and democratic world. 340.005 UFOs in America F 10:00 3:00 Dewan nd *2 Eight weeks Arts & Sciences group: Humanities This course traces the emergence and continued subsistence of the UFO phenomenon in American culture, from its origins in the Cold War era to its prosperousness in the Internet Age. In dealing with topics such as contemporary folk traditions, Cold War paranoia, conspiracy culture, and new religious movements, this course will teach students to critically examine how contemporary belief systems are formulated and integrated into popular culture, as well as how these beliefs inhabit battlegrounds of meaning between modern rationalist and quasi-religious ideologies. 343.001 Urban Legends F 10:00 3:00 Dewan st *1 Eight weeks Arts and Sciences group: Humanities This course is an exploration of urban legends in contemporary culture. We will explore recurring themes and means of transmission, as well as the cultural meanings and interpretations that have been ascribed to them. Our readings and discussions will

examine the underlying components of these stories, including issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and ideology. 350.009 Borderland Roles of Women *2nd Eight weeks Arts & Sciences group: Humanities W 9:00 2:00 Cordova