A lecture/seminar satisfying the second half of the Reading & Composition requirement, R4B offers structured and sustained practice in the processes used in reading, critical analysis, and writing. Students engage with thematically-related materials from a range of genres and media. In response, they craft short pieces leading to longer expository and/or argumentative essays. Students develop a research question, draft a research essay, gather, evaluate, and synthesize information from various sources. Elements of the research process--a proposal, an annotated bibliography, an abstract, a works cited list, etc.--are submitted with the final report in a research portfolio. Students write a minimum of 32 pages of prose.

This class will use the current state of immigration as a starting point in our exploration of immigration in a broader context. We will step back a bit from the current controversies and crises surrounding immigration to look at where the topic of immigration intersects with other topics: race and structural racism, history, culture, politics, and art, to name a few. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the course draws from texts and ideas in sociology, anthropology, ethnic studies, critical race theory, media studies, and more. The content will be organized into three units: Race and Immigration, Media and Representation, Story and Ethnography. The first part of the class is made up of content that I provide in the previously mentioned areas. You’ll read and discuss course texts and complete writing assignments based on them. Then, the course pivots as you, the students, begin to provide more and more of the material to be read, studied, and discussed. This material will be drawn from your own work researching topics of your own choice, work which culminates in your final research project. Throughout the semester, you’ll engage in activities that help you develop an awareness of academic writing conventions, such as citation and source use. Course activities offer practice in writing to these conventions, but also inspire an interrogation of the norms of academic writing. You’ll practice with stylistic and structural language features that will help you craft writing that says what you want to say how you want to say it. Finally, you’ll come to a greater understanding of how writing is often used as a tool for thought, part of the process of analysis. You’ll practice thinking-through-writing, where writing is less of a final product and more of a space for critical analysis and inquiry. As a course focused on research, the class provides an introduction to UC Berkeley library resources and practice using these resources for research. As you grow more comfortable with these resources, you’ll expand your definition of what research is, examining your own place in the academic communities at Cal and your potential for participating in academic research. Book List: Most titles are available as free digital books to UC Berkeley students in the UC Berkeley library. You can use digital copies for this class, but if you prefer paper copies, I suggest buying The Craft of Research and The Latino Threat since most of those two books will be required reading. You'll read excerpts from the other books. Booth, Wayne C., et al. The Craft of Research, University of Chicago Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/lib/berkeley-ebo.... Chavez, Leo. The Latino Threat : Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Second Edition, Stanford University Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/lib/berkeley-ebo... Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous People's History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2014. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/lib/berkeley-ebo... Haney-López, Ian. White by Law. [Electronic Resource] : The Legal Construction of Race. Rev. and updated, 10th anniversary ed., New York University Press, 2006. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/lib/berkeley-ebo... Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts. Utah State University Press, 2006. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/9248 Ngai, Mae M.Impossible Subjects. [Electronic Resource] : Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition. New paperback edition / with a new forward by the author., Princeton University Press, 2014. https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.berkeley.edu/book/64461/ Race-- the Power of an Illusion. Kanopy Streaming, 2014. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat04202a&AN=ucb.b23929703&site=eds-live. Link for streaming: https://berkeley-kanopy-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/video/race-power-illus...

Enrollment is restricted to students who have satisfied the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement. This course satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.

Requisites

• Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English.
• Students must satisfy the ELWR in order to enroll in this class.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills