Proposed Core Category
American History [60]
The History Curriculum Team representative, Kimberlee Ball, has submitted a Core course proposal to add HIST 2328, to the LSC Core in the American History [60] area.
Application Documents
- Application
- Syllabus
- Additional Documentation
Course Description
A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx. Periods include the United States-Mexico War Era, incorporation of Northern Mexico into the United States,Porfirian Mexico, and the nineteenth century American West, 1910 Mexican Revolution and Progressive Era, the Great Depression and New Deal, World War II and the Cold War, Civil Rights Era, Conservative Ascendancy, the age of NAFTA and turn of the 21st Century developments. Themes to be addressed are the making of borders and borderlands, impact of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, gender and power, migration and national identities, citizenship and expulsion, nineteenth century activism and displacement, industrialization and the making of a transnational Mexican working class, urbanization and community formation, emergence of a Mexican American Generation, war and citizenship, organized advocacy and activism, Chicano Movement, changing identifications and identities, trade and terrorism. (May be applied to U.S. History requirement.)
Prerequisites
College Level Readiness in Reading AND Writing
Student Learning Outcomes
- Create an argument through the use of historical evidence.
- Analyze and interpret primary and secondary evidence.
- Differentiate between the promises and realities of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
- Describe how race, gender, and class shaped material conditions and inter-ethnic dynamics for Mexican Americans in the United States.
- Discuss the transnational political and economic ties between the United States and Mexico.
- Assess the impact of the 1910 Mexican Revolution on the United States and Mexico.
- Articulate the place of the Mexican American struggle for civil rights within the context of the broader Civil Rights Movement.
- Evaluate periods of significant change in Mexican migration patterns to the United States.
- Explain the history of self-identification in Mexican American communities in the United States.