The Parents & Friends Club of Brooklyn College

If you come across this page and want to take ownership of it I'm happy to pass the torch! Just comment below and we'll chat.

Anyone who reopens this club can take over this page. Simply shoot a message over to me (Former President Lillian Quezada)and I'll give you admin access.

Are you still looking for electives? Did you know about these important courses? Do you like courses with emphasis on dialogue/exchange with your professors and classmates over historic to contemporary realities? The following courses in the Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies have room for fall 2017, and no, you don't have to be a PRLS major, minor or concentration to take them. If you need permission for a particular course, email Prof. Aja [email protected] - also talk to your department Chairs in case some of these courses may be counted toward your own disciplines.

I (Lillian Oquendo) recently graduated with a BA in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies and I can personally testify that these classes are GREAT! They're informative, hands on and force you to reevaluate all that you think you know regarding Latinos. These classes are for everyone and I strongly encourage you all to take them. The PRLS department is small simply because no one realizes we're here! But the classes are enriching educational and fun so I can only hope in the semesters to come it'll blossom to its full potential.

PRLS 3205-Women in Latin America - WQ3:40-6:10pm - Prof. Irene Sosa
3 hours; 3 credits

Gender roles in different historical periods. Analysis of race, class, ethnicity, and traditional roles prescribed by society and religion. Creative and ethnographic works about women who challenged traditions, social and legal constraints. Current research, issues, and cultural affirmations of contemporary women in education, government, politics, the labor force, and the migration experience. Latinas in the U.S.

PRLS 2320 WQ9 30653 Afro-Latin@s in the U.S.: Blk, Latino or Both? Wed. 9:30am-12:15pm
Prof. Aja
Who are Blacks? Who are Latin@s? Who are Afro-Latin@s? The Afro-Latin@ experience. New ways of understanding culture, identity, race, and ethnicity. Examination of critical essays, literature, film, music, gender, class, interviews, and media representations of Afro-Latin@s. Concepts including diaspora, transnationalism, blackness, whiteness, and Latinidad.

PRLS 2505 T3 30651 Justice & Puerto Rican/Latinx Community TU 3:40-6:10pm Prof Ortiz Minaya
Latin@s within the penal systems; mass incarceration and re-form, racial profiling, juvenile justice, drug criminalization. Legal representation. Immigration policy, human and civil rights strug-gles and organized movements. Political activism and repres-sion, including Puerto Rican nationalists, gang formation, glob-alization and labor formation after 1970’s shift in global capital, school-to-prison pipeline, urban displacement.

PRLS 3125 TR11 15375 Puerto Rican/Latino Music TU/TH 11:00am-12:15pm Prof. Wallace
Survey of folk, popular, classical forms of Puerto Rican music. Influence of Taíno, Spanish, and Afro-Caribbean cultures on these forms. Relationship between Puerto Rican music and folklore. Lectures supplemented with performances, slides, tapes, records.

PRLS 3215 TR2 17562 Mexican Migration/Chicano Experience in the US TU/TH 2:15-3:30pm Prof Ortiz Minaya
Historical antecedents. War with Mexico and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848. Early immigration and labor. Effects of the Mexican Revolution and growth of U.S. communities. Depression era,
segregation, and deportation. Development of social, civic, and political organization. Bracero programs, migrant workers. Chicano identity and civil rights movement. Artistic expression and its relation to social change.

PRLS 3325 TR9 17563 Institutions of Urban Life and the Latino Experience. TU/TH 9:30-10:45am Prof. Burgos-Matos
Multidisciplinary perspective on the evolution of Hispanics/Latinos as an urbanized segment of the United States population. Cross-cultural understanding of the diversity among Spanish-speaking people within the urban context. The role of urban institutions in the conflicts between assimilation and cultural preservation, the dynamics of migration, immigration, settlement, and institutionalized participation in the social processes of United States urban life.

PRLS 4510 R3 30652 Realities & Alternatives (Seminar) TH 3:40-6:10pm Prof. Aja
Demographic and political trends of Latinos in the United States and the impact on Puerto Ricans. Education, labor organizations, public services, economic development, political power, and future challenges to Latino/as. Alternatives for Puerto Ricans/Latinos in a Caribbean context and the impact of a change in political status of the island upon Puerto Ricans in the United States.

It's Picture Day!!!!!!

Thanks so much for coming to today's meeting!!!!!! We made great headway with the members who attended let's keep this momentum going!!

Meeting starts in 30 minutes! See You All There!!
12-2pm James Hall Room 1606

Club Meeting Tomorrow!! 12pm-2pm James Hall Room 1606 Come for the Info and stay for the food!

Attn: Parents the Campus Road entrance will not be reopening as we'd hoped.

James Hall Entrance Goes from Construction to Closed - The Kingsman The northern entrance to James Hall, which as of late has been blocked by yellow...

Hey Everyone!!!
Friendly reminder that tomorrow will be our wrapping party!!! Light refreshments will be served.
9:30-2:30 Family Learning Center 1606 James Hall

Our Swap and Go is still going on!! It's running until November 23rd so make sure to bring your gently used items and pick up something new!!

How's everyone's semester going?

Don't forget there is Swap and Go in the Parent Room. Go drop off some lightly used clothes (kids or adult) and toys. You can also take what you like that has been organized on tables.