HASS 022C: U.S.-Mexican Borderlands: Word, Sound, and Image

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours

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Prerequisites: none

Description: Explores the idea of the border and the making of U.S.-Mexican border culture through literature, popular music, and visual culture, with a close study of three border cities: Juarez, Tijuana, and Riverside. This course is the third of three in a yearlong, multidisciplinary sequence about society and culture in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. Students are encouraged, but not required, to take HASS 022A and HASS 022B. Fulfills the Humanities (Additional) or Literature/Philosophy/Religious requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.