Advanced seminar in Chicanx and Latinx Studies with topic to be announced at the beginning of each semester.

This capstone course will engage with a local Oakland high school to reimagine their education by conducting Community Engaged Research through a decolonial lens. Community engaged research is a collaborative approach that involves active participation of community members in the research process to address local issues and produce mutually beneficial outcomes. At the same time, this course will explore ways to not only decolonized research methodologies, but also the researcher by exploring indigenous research practices, nationally and internationally. Towards this end, the course will position research findings to explore policies and campaigns for transforming the high school into a Community Resilience Hub, which centralizes resources and enhances a community's ability to respond to and recover from crises or disasters, realizing the school's full potential to fully serve their students, the campus, and community. In conducting Community Engaged Research, this course requires school visits during scheduled course times and potentially outside of those times as course participants will put theory into practice by conducting participant observations, collecting testimonios, analyzing text and other activities related to the course content. In the spirit of meeting the community where they are at, this course will also require students to navigate unforseen challenges that may alter the course and research project.

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