Analyzes the impact of drug production and trafficking on Latin America, and the United States; evaluates past and current US drug policy and initiatives and law enforcement strategies; studies the link between transnational organized crime and the connection between drug trafficking, insurgency and terrorism in Latin America.
The course will examine the lives and experience of Latinas living in the U.S. using Ethnic Studies methodologies. It will explore how their experiences affect self-esteem. Major social and cultural issues and themes will be discussed and analyzed using a multidisciplinary approach.
Emphasis is on the application of statistical methods to measure, analyze, interpret and report findings related to issues in Latin American and U.S. Latino Studies and other disciplines. Analyses include descriptive statistics: central tendency, dispersion, inferential statistics: probability theory and distributions, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression, and computer technology.
Applies critical thinking skills to issues of race and ethnicity in the U.S. through articulation of key concepts in Ethnic/Latinx Studies.Topics covered include rhetorics of racism and popular culture by and/or about Latinxs. Critical analysis of the intersection of race and racism against Latinxs with other dimensions of difference such as class, gender, and national origins. Description and active engagement with anti-racist and anti-colonial practices related to rhetoric and pop culture.
Prepares students to advocate for improvements in their wages, working and living conditions in a variety of settings. Includes identifying issues, planning and campaign evaluation. Preparation for volunteer and paid work in union, community, and electoral activism.
Brings working peoples' voices to the forefront of society and social change movements. Explores communications campaigns, oral history projects, public speaking, media relations and labor and community arts programs. Special emphasis is put on students telling their own stories and those of their communities, workers centers and unions. Taking organizing deeper and further - into the heart and soul of workers lives.
Introduction to the role of the workers' advocate. Union, workers' center and government agency advocacy. Organizing for social, racial and economic justice. Employment rights laws. Shop stewards and union contract enforcement. Labor-community solidarity.
An overview of the various organizations within the San Francisco labor community, their work and their issues. Unions, workers' centers and community-based advocacy organizations. Organizing for a better work life, building labor-community coalitions and telling working people's stories. People of color, immigrant, women's and LGBT workers' rights. The "Si, Se Puede" spirit in Bay Area labor today.
This course covers students’ rights on the job under federal, state and local law and in the union and nonunion workplace. It examines wage and hour, job security, anti-discrimination, health and safety and collective bargaining protections. Students will learn how to organize effectively for fair conditions at work.
Emphasizes concepts of photojournalism at an intermediate level. Assignments will involve photographing people and visual story-telling at a professional entry-level appropriate for use in publications such as newspapers and magazines. Emphasizes integration of traditional photojournalism with new media technology reflecting current professional trends in photojournalism. Digital SLR or mirrorless camera required.