Coming of Age in Latinx Studies: Growing Up and Growing Old

1 Unit · Undergraduate

This seminar explores age as a social and analytical category in the study of Latina, Latino, and Latinx everyday life. Students will analyze various materials?historical and fictional narratives, ethnographic studies, essays, short stories, poetry, visual art, and popular culture ? to examine how social, political, and economic structures affect life trajectories, as well as how other categories of social difference shape ideas about age and age relations. LATINO 201-0 , LATINO 202-0 , or LATINO 203-0 recommended before taking this course.