By the end of the class, students should be able to: 
- Effectively use tools from film and media studies to analyze works of Latinx film and visual culture.
- Identify specific strategies (such as bilingualism and rasquache) and artistic traditions (such as muralism and political printmaking) that have shaped Latinx film and visual culture.
- Recognize the diversity within Latinx communities in terms of national origin, race, and other factors and evaluate the political implications of who is included and excluded from specific definitions.
- Provide a timeline of key moments in the history of Latinos’ presence in the United States, including the Mexican-American War, the Mexican Revolution, post-World War II Puerto Rican migration to the mainland, the Cuban Revolution, and Cold War conflict in Central America, and describe how these histories are represented in film and visual culture.
- Analyze the career and work of a Latino/a/x filmmaker or artist, considering relationships between individual films or works, social and historical circumstances, and implied or stated political goals.

UNIT 1 – KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
Week 1: Welcome and Film Terms
Week 2: Defining Hispanic/Latino/Latinx - Shifting Labels for a Diverse Community 
Week 3: Latinx Images and Audiences in Classical Hollywood
Week 4: Borderlands Identities 
UNIT 2: MEXICAN-AMERICAN CINEMA AND VISUAL CULTURE 
Week 5: The Chicano Movement on Film 
Week 6: Mexican and Chicano/a Political Art (Printmaking and Muralism)
Week 7: Chicano/a Performance Art 
UNIT 3: BROADENING THE LENS - CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 
Week 8: Cuban Cinema of Exile
Week 9: Puerto Rican Film on the Mainland 
Week 10: The Dominican American Experience on Film
Week 11: Central Americans and the Immigration Narrative, 1980s-present
UNIT 4 – LATINX VISUAL CULTURE ACROSS MEDIA, 1980s-PRESENT 
Week 12: Latino Comics
Week 13: From Indie to Hollywood: Robert Rodríguez 
Week 14: Feminist Issues in Latinx Film 
Week 15: The Telenovela in the Age of Online Streaming

All academic work must meet the standards contained in “A Culture of Honesty.” Each student is responsible to inform themselves about those standards before performing any academic work. Students are expected to adhere to the University Honor Code and Honesty Policy.