Chicanx Latinx Studies Major

Requirements for the Major

A major in Chicanx Latinx Studies requires a minimum of ten (10) courses in the subject area, including a senior thesis or senior project, but excluding the Spanish language classes (SPAN044, SPAN065 CH, or equivalent). 

Language Requirement:

All CLS majors must demonstrate fluency in Spanish by completing SPAN065 CH Spanish for Bilinguals , SPAN044 SC , an equivalent course, or a language assessment.

Required Courses:

• CHST015 CH Introduction to Chicanx Latinx Studies  
• CHST120 CH Fronteras/Borders: Methods and Research  
• CHST190 CH Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Seminar  (fall semester, senior year)
• CHST191 CH Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Thesis  (spring semester, senior year); or
• CHST192 CH Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Project  (spring semester, senior year)

Three courses from the following list of introductory courses:

• CHLT061 CH Contemporary Issues of Chicanas and Latinas  
• CHLT072 CH Central Americans in the United States  
• CHLT157 CH Latina Activists Work and Protest  
• CHST077 CH Chicana-Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture  
• HIST017 CH Introduction to Chicanx Latinx History  
• HIST032 CH Latin America Since Independence  
• HIST034 CH Mexico; from Indigenous Societies to Modern State  
• PSYC084 CH Psychology of the Chicanx Latinx Experience  
• SOC 030 CH Chicanx Latinx 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: Latinx Experiences in the Americas

    1.  Educación: Identities, Cultures and Communities

• CHLT009 CH Food, Culture, Power  
• CHLT061 CH Contemporary Issues of Chicanas and Latinas  
• CHLT115 CH Gender, Race and Class: Women of Color in the U.S.  
• CHLT157 CH Latina Activists Work and Protest  
• CHLT166 CH Chicana Feminist Epistemologies  
• CHST077 CH Chicana-Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture   
• CHST125 CH Latinxs in the 20th Century  
• HIST101S CH Latinx Oral Histories  
• PSYC084 CH Psychology of the Chicanx Latinx Experience   
• PSYC180N CH Latinx Mental Health  
• POST198 PZ God in the Barrio  
• SOC 030 CH Chicanx Latinx in Contemporary Society  
• SOC 114 CH Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequalites and Activism   
• SOC 150 CH Chicanxs Latinxs and Education  
• SPAN153 PO Spanglish in Context: Bilingualism in the United States  

    2. Experiencia: Literature, Music and Representation   

• CHLT068 CH Rock in Las Americas  
• CHST064 CH Chicanx Music from Genre to Experience  
• CHST066 CH Fandango as a De-Colonial Tool     
• CHST067 CH Chicanx Art and Its Antecedents  
• CHST074 CH Women Who Rock: The Archive, Pop Music and New Media    
• CHST126B CH Contemporary Chicanx Literature  
• CHST130 CH (Re)Claiming Voices and Sharing Stories in Chicanx Latinx Communities  
• CHST184D CH Chicanx Short Fiction  
• CHST185B CH Narratives of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands  
• CHST185C CH Voices of the Tropics: Latina Literature of the Caribbean  
• 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  
• THEA130 PO Introduction to Directing  

    3. Sin Fronteras: Latinx Experiences in the Americas

• CHLT060 CH Women in the Third World  
• CHLT072 CH Central Americans in the United States  
• CHLT085 PZ Gender, Radicalism and Revolution  
• CHLT105 PZ Undocumented Los Angeles: The Untold Story of Organizing  
• CHLT110 PZ Latinx Community Health  
• CHLT120 PZ Immigration from the ‘Tropics’ to the Borderlands: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives  
• CHLT153 CH Rural and Urban Social Ethnic Movements  
• CHLT154 CH Latinas in the Garment Industry  
• CHST125 CH Latinxs in the 20th Century  
• EA 099 PO Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Unconvering Local and Global Disparities  
• HIST017 CH Introduction to Chicanx Latinx History  
• HIST025 CH All Power to the People! Social Movements for Justice   
• HIST031 CH Colonial Latin America  
• HIST032 CH Latin America Since Independence  
• HIST034 CH Mexico; from Indigenous Societies to Modern State       
• HIST127 CH American Inequality  
• POST107 CH Latino Politics  
• POST174 CH U.S. Immigration Policy   
• SPAN131 SC Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America  
• SPAN142 PO Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad  
• SPAN154 SC Trans-Caribbean Formations: Translating Identity, Race, and Gender in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico  
• SPAN183 SC Interculturality and Bilingualism in the Andes  

NOTE: Double-counting of courses to satisfy the requirements listed above is not permitted.

Course with a service learning or civic engagement component:

One of the courses taken to satisfy the CLS major must include a service learning or civic engagement component. The following courses include a service learning or civic engagement component:

• CHLT105 PZ , CHLT110 PZ , CHLT120 PZ , CHLT153 CH ,  CHLT154 CH , CHLT157 CH , POST107 CH , SOC 030 CH , SOC 114 CH , SOC 150 CH