CCAS 240U.S. Central Americans Making Art and Memory
Chicana/o and Central American Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to graduate students. Memory is trope through which U.S. Central American writers, performance, visual, media, and public artists and activists communicate across social, national, and phenomenological borders. Through contemporary theories on memory and narrativizing, introduction to U.S. Central American writers, artists, cultural activists, and historical figures. Exploration of issues including civil war, postwar, race, class, sex, gender, globalization, immigration, and identity formations. Students have option to create art, media projects, and essays that interpret readings as these relate to their lives vis-à-vis U.S. Central American cultural production.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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