Dear All,
Please see attached flyers for upper division MAS courses offered this fall.
These courses are great for upper division free electives. The majority of these MAS
courses have no prerequisites and are open to all majors.
Thank you again for sharing with interested students.
Sylvia (I apologize for sending two e-mails about the UD MAS course - attachments are just
too big for one e-mail)
From: Lilliana Saldana
<Lilliana.Saldana@utsa.edu<mailto:Lilliana.Saldana@utsa.edu>>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 3:18 PM
To: Sylvia Mansour <Sylvia.Mansour@utsa.edu<mailto:Sylvia.Mansour@utsa.edu>>
Cc: Derek Kubacki <derek.kubacki@utsa.edu<mailto:derek.kubacki@utsa.edu>>;
Alejandra Elenes
<Alejandra.Elenes@utsa.edu<mailto:Alejandra.Elenes@utsa.edu>>; Kianna Castillo
<kianna.castillo@utsa.edu<mailto:kianna.castillo@utsa.edu>>
Subject: Fall 2023 MAS Courses
Hello Sylvia and Derek,
I want to share flyers for our upcoming Fall 2023 semester courses! As you can see, we
have a great constellation of courses that we'll be offering next semester -- courses
that can serve as electives for students in various disciplines.
We are particularly excited about our new MAS 3423 Mexican American Foodways class which
will be offered for the first time at UTSA. This course may be of interest to students in
the Nutrition and Dietetics undergraduate program. We will also be offering a
cross-disciplinary / co-taught course MAS 4953 Environmental Justice Research: Urban
Ecology, Community Science, and Culture. This course is cross-listed with Environmental
Sciences, English, and MAS so please feel free to encourage undergrad students from these
disciplines to take this course.
We will also be offering two music related courses --- MAS 2053 Performance Practicum and
MAS 2063 Latinx Songwriting.
These courses should be of interest to music majors.
We would greatly appreciate you sharing our flyers with all of the advisors in your
office. Thank you so much for your support in promoting our courses!
Lilliana
Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, Ph.D.
she/her/ella
Associate Professor
Mexican American Studies
Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department
University of Texas at San Antonio
501 W. César Chávez
San Antonio, Texas 78207
Mexican American
Studies<https://education.utsa.edu/departments/race-ethnicity-gender-s...;,
Program Coordinator
MAS Teachers'
Academy<http://education.utsa.edu/mas/social_studies_teachers_academy/>,
Co-Director
Democratizing Racial
Justice<https://racialjustice.utsa.edu/>, MAS Site Coordinator
Dreamers Resource
Center<https://www.utsa.edu/dreamers/>, Faculty Ally
Esperanza Peace and Justice
Center<http://esperanzacenter.org/>, Board of Directors
Mexican American Civil Rights
Institute<https://www.somosmacri.org/?fbclid=IwAR2cl8gcDng-Muj1WvyDlMs...;,
Board of Directors
________________________________
From: Lilliana Saldana
<Lilliana.Saldana@utsa.edu<mailto:Lilliana.Saldana@utsa.edu>>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2022 3:49 PM
To: Sylvia Mansour <Sylvia.Mansour@utsa.edu<mailto:Sylvia.Mansour@utsa.edu>>
Cc: Derek Kubacki <derek.kubacki@utsa.edu<mailto:derek.kubacki@utsa.edu>>;
Alejandra Elenes
<Alejandra.Elenes@utsa.edu<mailto:Alejandra.Elenes@utsa.edu>>
Subject: MAS Low Enrollment Courses
Hello Sylvia,
I know this is an incredibly busy time of the semester with advising and registration.
I wanted to share flyers for some of our Spring 2023 MAS classes that have low
enrollment. As you know, our program is working hard to enroll students in our
intermediate and upper-division courses. We're mostly concerned about the following
courses:
MAS 3063 Historical Legacies: Chicanas/xs/os in Education, with Dr. Sonya Alemán, which
only has two students enrolled
MAS 4053 Special Topics: Mexican American labor, with Dr. José Villarreal, which only has
two students enrolled
MAS 4053 Special Topics: MAS Fitness and Wellness, with Prof. Alessandra Sanchez, which
only has two students enrolled
MAS 2053 MAS Corazon de San Antonio (Ensemble), with Dr. Rachel Cruz, which only has two
students enrolled (perhaps music majors can take this as an elective)
I'm attaching flyers that you can share with our colleagues in the Office of Advising.
Hopefully, they can print out / post and share with students.
We appreciate all of your efforts in encouraging students to enroll in our MAS classes!
Have a great mini-break,
Lilliana
Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, Ph.D.
she/her/ella
Associate Professor
Mexican American Studies
Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department
University of Texas at San Antonio
501 W. César Chávez
San Antonio, Texas 78207
Mexican American
Studies<https://education.utsa.edu/departments/race-ethnicity-gender-s...;,
Program Coordinator
MAS Teachers'
Academy<http://education.utsa.edu/mas/social_studies_teachers_academy/>,
Co-Director
Democratizing Racial
Justice<https://racialjustice.utsa.edu/>, MAS Site Coordinator
Dreamers Resource
Center<https://www.utsa.edu/dreamers/>, Faculty Ally
Esperanza Peace and Justice
Center<http://esperanzacenter.org/>, Board of Directors
Mexican American Civil Rights
Institute<https://www.somosmacri.org/?fbclid=IwAR2cl8gcDng-Muj1WvyDlMs...;,
Board of Directors
________________________________
From: Lilliana Saldana
<Lilliana.Saldana@utsa.edu<mailto:Lilliana.Saldana@utsa.edu>>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2022 12:15 PM
To: Sylvia Mansour <Sylvia.Mansour@utsa.edu<mailto:Sylvia.Mansour@utsa.edu>>
Cc: Derek Kubacki <derek.kubacki@utsa.edu<mailto:derek.kubacki@utsa.edu>>;
Alejandra Elenes
<Alejandra.Elenes@utsa.edu<mailto:Alejandra.Elenes@utsa.edu>>
Subject: MAS Spring 2023 flyers
Dear Sylvia,
I hope you're having a great semester.
I'd like to share flyers for our upcoming Spring 2023 classes. As you can see,
we'll be offering our two core curriculum courses virtually and at both campuses.
We'll also be offering two new special topics courses -- a Mexican American Labor
course with Dr. José Villagran, and a MAS Fitness and Wellness course with Professor
Alessandra Sánchez. We're also offering two courses for the MAS Music emphases -- a
Latinx Music Production and Industry class and our MAS Corazon Practicum which have had
low enrollment.
We would appreciate if you could share our flyers with your advisors so they can encourage
students to take our classes.
Thanks so much for all of your support in sustaining MAS at UTSA, and please don't
hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions.
with much appreciation!
Lilliana
Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, Ph.D.
she/her/ella
Associate Professor
Mexican American Studies
Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department
University of Texas at San Antonio
501 W. César Chávez Boulevard
San Antonio, Texas 78207
Mexican American
Studies<https://education.utsa.edu/departments/race-ethnicity-gender-s...;,
Program Coordinator
MAS Teachers'
Academy<http://education.utsa.edu/mas/social_studies_teachers_academy/>,
Co-Director
Dreamers Resource
Center<https://www.utsa.edu/dreamers/>, Faculty Ally
Esperanza Peace and Justice
Center<http://esperanzacenter.org/>, Board of Directors
Mexican American Civil Rights
Institute<https://www.somosmacri.org/?fbclid=IwAR2cl8gcDng-Muj1WvyDlMs...;,
Board of Directors