Course Catalog - 2007-2008

     

HIST 482 - LITERATURE & OTHER DISCIPLINES

Long Title: SOUTHWEST NARRATIVE: WRITING FROM BELOW
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course examines the "engendering" of official stories and counter-narratives that have shaped the cultural history of the Mexico-US border region. We will track phosts and symptoms, encrypted and marginal voices as we consider what it means to read from the standpoints of migrants, indigenous, urban poor, and working-class people.