Welcome to Chicana/o Studies 302. This blog is the basis for the site we’re going to build as part of our study of Chicana / Latina coming of age narratives.
Admin things to do before our next class meeting:
- If you don’t have one yet, set up your Twitter account.
- Fill out the course questionnaire by Wednesday, August 29.
- Set up your CHST302 WordPress account – check your lion.lmu email for instructions.
- Tweet using the #CHST302 hashtag and use it to check and see what others in the class have written.
- Follow me (@anneperez) and each other.
- By next Monday (September 3), write a blog post introducing yourself and telling us about your interest in, and any experience with, Chicana/o and / or women’s studies.
Assignment for Monday, September 10:
- Read: The House on Mango Street
- Read: “Crossing the Borders of Genre: Revisions of the Bildungsroman in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John” (is on Readings page)
- Annotate your reading by tweeting
- UInder comments, post your discussion of these readings
- Research: An article on Bildungsroman.
- Write a blog post summerizing the article you find. (this is due to be posted Sunday, September 9 at 12pm)
- Read and comment on each others’ blog posts.