Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies Major

Requirements for the Major

A major in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies requires a minimum of 11 courses to include a service learning course.

Required Courses:

• CHST015 CH Introduction to Chicana/o Latina/o Studies  
• CHST120 CH Fronteras/Borders: Methods & Research  
• SPAN 044  or proficiency in Spanish

Three courses from the following list of introductory courses:

• CHLT061 CH Contemporary Issues of Chicanas  
• CHLT157 CH Latina Activism Work and Protest  
• CHST077 CH Chicana/Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture  
• HIST017 CH Chicana/o and Latina/o History  
• HIST032 CH Latin America Since Independence  
• HIST034 CH History of Mexico  
• PSYC084 CH Psychology of the Chicana/o  
• SOC 030 CH Chicanas/os in Contemporary Society  
• SPAN127 CH Literatura Chicana en Español  

One course from each of the three areas of concentration:

          1.  Educación: Identities, Cultures and Communities
          2.  Experiencia: Literature, Music and Representation
          3.  Sin Fronteras: Latin@ Experiences in the Americas

    1.  Educación: Identities, Cultures and Communities

• CHLT060 CH Women in the Third World  
• CHST077 CH Chicana/Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture  
• CHLT115 CH Gender, Race and Class: Women of Color in the U.S  
• CHST120 CH Fronteras/Borders: Methods & Research  
• CHST125 CH Latinas/os in the 20th Century  
• CHLT155 CH Chicana Feminist Epistemology  
• CHLT157 CH Latina Activism Work and Protest  
• HIST017 CH Chicana/o and Latina/o History  
• HIST127 SC Rousseau, Tocqueville, Foucault  
• PSYC084 CH Psychology of the Chicana/o   
• PSYC180M CH Chicano-Latino Cultural Psychology  
• SOC 030 CH Chicanas/os in Contemporary Society  
• SOC 114 CH Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism  
• SOC 150 CH Chicanos/Latinos and Education  

    2. Experiencia: Literature, Music and Representation   

• CHLT062 Ch Humor and the Chicana/o Artist  
• CHST064 CH Chicano/a Music from Genre to Experience  
• CHST066 CH Fandango as a De-Colonial Tool    
• CHLT068 CH Rock in the Americas  
• CHST126A CH Chicano/a Movement Literature  
• CHST126B CH Contemporary Chicana/o Literature  
• CHST184D CH Chicana/o Short Fiction  
• CHST186 CH Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar   
• MUS 130 SC Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic  
• MUS 131 SC Mariachi Performance and Culture  
• SPAN127 CH Literatura Chicana en Español  
• SPAN140 PO From the “Boom” to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture  

    3. Sin Fronteras: Latin@ Experiences in the Americas

• CHLT009 CH Food, Culture, and Power  
• CHLT061 CH Contemporary Issues of Chicanas  
• CHLT072 CH Central Americans in the United States  
• CHLT079 CH Gender, Sexuality, and Healthcare in America  
• CHLT082 PZ Tropics to Borderlands: Central America  
• CHLT085 PZ Central American Women   
• CHLT154 CH Latinas in the Garment Industry  
• CHLT157 CH Latina Activism Work and Protest  
• CHST101 CH Community Partnerships  
• CHST125 CH Latinas/os in the 20th Century  
• HIST025 CH All Power to the People!  
• HIST028 CH Revolutions, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910  
• HIST031 CH Latin America Before Independence  
• HIST032 CH Latin America Since Independence  
• HIST034 CH History of Mexico  
• HIST100C CH Chicana/Latina Feminist Histories  
• HIST100I CH Race, Culture and Identity in Latin America  
• HIST100N CH The Mexico-United States Border    
• POST107 CH Latino Politics  
• POST174 CH U.S. Immigration Policy and Transnational Politics  
• POST198 CH God in the Barrio  
• SOC 155 CH Rural and Social Ethnic Movements  

One course with a service learning or civic engagement component:

• CHLT154 CH , CHLT157 CH , SOC 030 CH , SOC 114 CH , SOC 150 CH   SOC 155 CH , or  CHST101 CH  

Senior Requirements:

• CHST190 CH Chicana/a Latina/o Senior Seminar  Fall
• CHST191 CH Chicana/a Latina/o Studies Senior Thesis  Spring