Chicanx Latinx Studies Major

Requirements for the Major

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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 & Latinas  
• CHLT072 CH Central Americans in the U.S.  
• CHLT157 CH Latina Activists Work & Protest  
• CHST077 CH Chicana-Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture  
• CHST028 CH Epicentro America: Introduction to Central American Studies   
• 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 Chicanxs Latinxs 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 

• CHLT061 CH Contemporary Issues of Chicanas & Latinas  
• CHLT110 PZ Latinx Community Health   
• CHLT115 CH Gender, Race and Class: Women of Color in the U.S.  
• CHLT157 CH Latina Activists Work & Protest  
• CHLT166 CH Chicana Feminist Epistemologies  
• CHLT 170 CH Black & Indigenous Central Americans  
• CHST055 CH Digitizing Testimonios    
• CHST077 CH Chicana-Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture  
• CHST101 CH Community Partnerships (CP)  
• CHST125 CH Latinxs in the 20th Century  
• CHST132 CH Immigrant Youth: Education Access and Activism  
• CHST136 CH Chicanx Latinx Social Movements  
• CHST140 CH Latinx Activism & Struggles for Sanctuary in the San Gabriel Valley  
• HIST101S CH Latinx Oral Histories  
• HIST127 CH American Inequality  
• POST107 CH Latino Politics  
• POST118 PZ Criminalization of Latinos & Resistance  
• POST198 CH God in the Barrio   
• PSYC084 CH Psychology of the Chicanx Latinx Experience   
• PSYC180N CH Latinx Mental Health  
• RLST173 CM US Latino Religions and Politics  
• SOC 030 CH Chicanxs Latinxs in Contemporary Society  
• SOC 114 CH Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequalities 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   

• ARHI131 PO Border Art: U.S.-Mexico and Beyond  
• 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  
• CHST184 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 Seminar in Late 20th century Chicana Literature   
• MUS 130 SC Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic  
• 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 U.S.  
• CHLT085 PZ Gender, Radicalism & Revolution  
• CHLT105 PZ Undocumented Los Angeles: The Untold Story of Organizing   
• CHLT 148 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  
• CHLT160 CH Queering (Im)Migration: LGBTI & Gender Nonconforming Migration from Central America  
• CHST028 CH Epicentro America: Introduction to Central American Studies  
• CHST121 CH Artivistas in the Americas  
• CHST128 CH Latinx Citizenship: Race, Rights and Resistance   
• EA 099 PO Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Uncovering 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  
• HIST080 PO Revolutions, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910  
• HIST101T CH Latinifornia  
• HIST130 CH Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees  
• HIST132 PO Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America        
• POST174 CH U.S. Immigration Policy  
• POST175 CH Immigration and Race in America    
• SPAN131 SC Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America  
• SPAN140 PO From Borges to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture   
• 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:

• CHLT085 PZ , CHLT105 PZ , CHLT110 PZ , CHLT 148   , CHLT153 CH ,  CHLT154 CH , CHLT157 CH , CHLT160 CH , CHST101 CH  , CHST128 CH  ,CHST132 CH , CHST136 CH  , HIST101S CH , HIST130 CH , POST107 CH , SOC 114 CH , SOC 150 CH