CHICANO 171
Humor as Social Control
Description: Lecture, four hours. Hegemonic humor directs laughter of more powerful people against those with less power. In this case laughter becomes weapon used against Latinos and immigrants. With rise of Latinos in last decade, there has been increase of various guises of anti-Latino hegemonic humor in commercial mass-mediated popular culture. Exploration of theorizing, as well as today's myriad examples, of such humor to develop critical literacy of social work it accomplishes. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2020 - Professor Santa Ana...is odd. On one hand, I can tell that he really does enjoy teaching and he does try his hardest to teach in lecture. I definitely learned some things that are interesting that I would love to learn more about. HOWEVER, this course is...Not great. The professor was unclear in his grading methods, and I think internet communication made everything worse. I wouldn't recommend this course - it isn't exactly what I envisioned a Chicano studies course to be. It was boring, rough around the edges, and it needs a LOT of refining. The readings were insanely long, assignments confusing, and it was just a bad vibe all around. You can always make your own choice, but I wish I read the reviews before I took this class with this professor.
Fall 2020 - Professor Santa Ana...is odd. On one hand, I can tell that he really does enjoy teaching and he does try his hardest to teach in lecture. I definitely learned some things that are interesting that I would love to learn more about. HOWEVER, this course is...Not great. The professor was unclear in his grading methods, and I think internet communication made everything worse. I wouldn't recommend this course - it isn't exactly what I envisioned a Chicano studies course to be. It was boring, rough around the edges, and it needs a LOT of refining. The readings were insanely long, assignments confusing, and it was just a bad vibe all around. You can always make your own choice, but I wish I read the reviews before I took this class with this professor.