First in a sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics. For students who have little or no Spanish.
This course focuses on postcolonial and indigenous thinking and resistance practices, both in its historical and contemporary forms, in the US and beyond. The postcolonial situation frames all of us, but more so those that challenge existing colonial attitudes, institutions and practices. We work with reflective text seminars. The main course assignment is to write a publishable article about one chosen relevant theme.
This seminar examines the academic writing and publication process in sociology, with particular emphasis towards peer-reviewed articles as the central writing format of the field. We will give particular emphasis to the work of motivating an article and using a theoretical ?review? of the literature to do so, as well as building methods, results, and conclusions sections to support the motivating questions.