If you register: ENG 494: Chicana/o/x Futures ( class # 30834) is offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon–1:15 p.m. Who should take it: ENG 494 is open to any undergraduate with an interest in writing, reading, fiction, science fiction, speculative futures, literature, language, communication, culture, media, technology, Latino identity or diaspora studies who has met basic first-year composition requirements. Racial Imagination in Brown and White" (2016) and “Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and its Legacies” (2011). Bebout is the author of the books "Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Who’s in charge: Professor of English Lee Bebout, an affiliate faculty in the School of Transborder Studies, teaches this course. Why it matters: The future is now! Also, reading sci-fi can really help articulate and navigate our fears about the future. What it is: What does the future hold? Is it a utopian moment where all humanity comes together? Will the challenges of today metastasize into a dystopian nightmare? And if it is the latter, what are we to do now? ENG 494: Chicana/o/x Futures will explore these questions primarily through Chicano cultural texts, such as “La Raza Cósmica,” “Lunar Braceros,” “High Aztech,” “The Last Generation,” “The Rag Doll Plagues,” “Sleep Dealer,” and more.
Photo by Fabrice Florin on Flickr (used under CC 2.0) San Francisco’s Mission District is filled with inspiring murals painted by local artists, many of them Chicano. ENG 494: Chicana/o/x Futures: Prophecies, Science Fiction and Other Speculative Ruminations
Students must also register for a recitation section. If you register: ENG 394 Poetry for the People ( class # 20576) meets Tuesdays from 3–4:15 p.m. Who should take it: ENG 394 is open to undergraduates of any major with an interest in literature, poetry, language, writers and writing, community engagement, activism, ethics or politics who have met basic first-year composition requirements. Sharif, who is the author of the National Book Award finalist “Look” (2016) and the former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, studied and taught with Jordan’s Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley. Who’s in charge: Poet and ASU Assistant Professor Solmaz Sharif teaches this course as a master class in speaking truth and sharing it with others.
Poetry for the People demonstrates the art form’s applicability in everyday life while naming the sociohistorical realities that underpin it. Why it matters: Poetry’s unique ability to say a lot with a little is a primary source of its power. Throughout the semester, poets visit the class to read and speak on their role as a poet in the world. Focused on bridging the divide between the academy and community, students write their own poems while exploring the ethical and political possibilities of poetry.
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What it is: Modeled on the blueprint of June Jordan’s revolutionary UC Berkeley program, ENG 394: Poetry for the People at ASU is a lecture and workshop series that introduces a variety of poetic forms and traditions. McDonough and Aida Campos participate in a Humanities Week event on the ASU campus on Oct.
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