Chicanx Latinx Studies Major

Requirements for the Major

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Language Requirement:

All CLS majors must demonstrate fluency in Spanish by completing SPAN 065 CH (Spanish for Bilinguals)  , SPAN 044 PZ , an equivalent course, or a language assessment.

Required Courses:

• CHST 015 CH Introduction to Chicanx Latinx Studies  
• CHST 120 CH Fronteras/Borders: Methods and Research  
• CHST 190 CH Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Seminar  (fall semester, senior year)
• CHST 191 CH Chicanx Latinx Sstudies Senior Thesis  (spring semester, senior year)

or

• CHST 192 CH Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Project  (spring semester, senior year)

Three courses from the following list of introductory courses: 

• CHLT 061 CH Contemporary Issues of Chicanas & Latinas   
• CHLT 072 CH Central Americans in the U.S.    
• CHLT 157 CH Latina Activists Work & Protest  
• CHST 028 CH -Epicentro America: Introduction to Central American Studies  
• CHST 077 CH Chicana-Latina Gender and Popular Culture  
• HIST 017 CH Introduction to Chicanx and Latinx History   
• HIST 032 CH Latin America Since Independence   
• HIST 034 CH -Mexico; from Indigenous Societies to Modern State  
• PSYC 084 CH Psychology of the Chicanx - Latinx Experience   
• SOC 030 CH Chicanxs - Latinxs in Contemporary Society (CP)  
• SPAN 127 CH Literatura Chicano 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

• CHLT 061 CH Contemporary Issues of Chicanas & Latinas  
• CHLT 115 CH Gender, Race and Class: Women of Color in the U.S.  
• CHLT 157 CH Latina Activists Work & Protest  
• CHLT 166 CH Chicana Feminist Epistemologies  
• CHST 077 CH Chicana-Latina Gender and Popular Culture  
• CHST 101 CH Community Partnerships (CP)  
• CHST 125 CH Latinxs in the 20th Century  
• CHST 132 CH -Immigrant Youth: Education Access and Activism  
• CHST 136 CH -Chicano/a Latino/a Politics  
• HIST 101S CH Latinx Oral Histories (CP)  
• HIST 127 CH -American Inequity  
• POST 107 CH -Latino Politics  
• POST 198 CH -God in the Barrio  
• PSYC 084 CH Psychology of the Chicanx - Latinx Experience  
• PSYC 180N CH -Latinx Mental Health  
• SOC 030 CH Chicanxs - Latinxs in Contemporary Society (CP)  
• SOC 114 CH Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism  
• SOC 141 CH Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S.  
• SOC 150 CH Chicanxs - Latinxs and Education  
• SPAN 153 PO -Spanglish in Context: Bilingualism in the United States  

2. Experiencia: Literature, Music and Representation   

• CHLT 068 CH -Rock en Las Americas  
• CHST 064 CH -Chicanx Music from Genre to Experience  
• CHST 066 CH -Fandango as a De-Colonial Tool  
• CHST 067 CH -Chicanx Art and Its Antecedents  
• CHST 074 CH -Women Who Rock: The Archive, Pop Music and New Media  
• CHST 126B CH -Contemporary Chicanx Literature  
• CHST 130 CH -(Re)Claiming Voices and Sharing Stories in Chicanx-Latinx Communities  
• CHST 184D CH -Chicanx Short Fiction  
• CHST 185B CH -Narratives of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands  
• CHST 185C CH -Voices of the Tropics: Latina Literature of the Caribbean  
• CHST 186 CH -Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar  
• MUS 130 SC -Ryythm & the Latina Body Politic  
• MUS 131 SC -Mariachi Performance and Culture  
• SPAN 127 CH -Literatura Chicano en Español  
• THEA 130 PO -Introdution to Directing (CP)  

3. Sin Fronteras: Latinx Experiences in the Americas

• CHLT 060 CH -Women in the Third World  
• CHLT 072 CH -Central Americans in the U.S.  
• CHLT 085 PZ -Gender, Radicalism & Revolution  
• CHLT 105 PZ -Undocumented Los Angeles: The Untold Story of Organizing  
• CHLT 110 PZ -Latinx Community Health  
• CHLT 120 PZ -Immigration from “The Tropics” to the Borderlands: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives  
• CHLT 153 CH -Rural and Urban Social Ethnic Movements  
• CHLT 154 CH -Latinas in the Garment Industry  
• CHLT 160 CH -Queering (Im)Migration: LGBTI & Gender Nonconforming Migration from Central America  
• CHST 028 CH -Epicentro America: Introduction to Central American Studies  
• CHST 128 CH -Latinx Citizenship: Race, Rights and Resistance  
• EA 099 PO -Urban Health Equity  
• HIST 017 CH -Introduction to Chicanx and Latinx History  
• HIST 025 CH -All Power to the People! Social Movements for Justice  
• HIST 028 CH -Revolution, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910  
• HIST 031 CH -Colonial Latin America  
• HIST 032 CH -Latin America Since Independence  
• HIST 034 CH -Mexico; from Indigenous Societies to Modern State  
• HIST 100D CH -Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America  
• HIST 100I CH -Race, Culture, Identity and Power in Latin America  
• HIST 100N CH -Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees (CP)  
• POST 174 PZ -U.S. Immigration Policy   
• SPAN 131 SC -Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America  
• SPAN 142 PO -Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad  
• SPAN 154 SC -Trans-Caribbean Formations: Translating Identity, Race, and Gender in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico  
• SPAN 183 SC -Interculturality and Bilingualism in the Andes  

 

PLEASE 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:

CHLT 105 PZ , CHLT 110 PZ , CHLT 120 PZ , CHLT 153 CH SOC 155 CH , CHLT 154 CH , CHLT 157 CH ,CHLT 160 CH  CHST 101 CH , HIST 100N CH , POST 107 CH , SOC 030 CH , SOC 114 CH , SOC 150 CH .