COMP 210
Latina/o/x Language Politics: Hybrid Voices
Last Offered Spring 2023
Division I
Cross-listed AMST 240 / LATS 240
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

In this interdisciplinary course we will focus on issues of language and identity in the contemporary cultural production and lived experience of various Latina/o/x communities. As such, how are cultural values and material conditions expressed through Latina/o/x language and literature? How does Latina/o/x identity challenge traditional notions of the relationship between language, culture, and nation? In what ways might Latina/o/x literary and linguistic practices serve as tools for social change? Departing from an overview of common linguistic ideologies, we will examine code-switching or Spanglish, bilingual education, linguistic public policy, the English Only movement, and Latina/o/x linguistic attitudes and creative responses. In addition to a consideration of language and identity grounded in sociolinguistics, anthropolitical linguistics, Latinx studies, and cultural studies, we will survey a variety of literary genres including memoir, novel, and poetry. Both directly and/or indirectly, these texts address Latina/o/x language politics, as well as the broader themes of power, community, ethno-racial identity, gender, sexuality, class, and hybridity.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Expected: 12
Class#: 3663
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: participation, two essays, final written reflection
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Latina/o Studies concentrators, American Studies majors, Comparative Literature majors by seniority
Distributions: Divison I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 210 Division I AMST 240 Division II LATS 240 Division II
Attributes: AMST Arts in Context Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
LATS Core Electives

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