Chicanx - Latinx Studies Major

Requirements for the Major

Language Requirement:

All CLS majors must demonstrate fluency in Spanish by completing SPAN 65CH (Spanish for Bilinguals), SPAN 044, 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)
• 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 US  
• 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  
• SOC030 CH - Chicanxs - Latinxs in Contemporary Society (CP)  
• SPAN127 CH - Literatura Chicana en Español  

One course from 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

Three advanced courses in one area of concentration

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 (CP)  
• PSYC084 CH - Psychology of the Chicanx-Latinx Experience  
• PSYC180N CH - Latinx Mental Health  
• POST198 CH - God in the Barrio  
• SOC030 CH - Chicanxs - Latinxs in Contemporary Society (CP)  
• SOC114 CH - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequalities and Activism   
• SOC150 CH - Chicanx - Latinx 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 - Contemporary Chicanx Art and Its Antecedents  
• CHST074 CH - Women Who Rock: The Archive, Pop Music and New Media  
• CHST126B CH - Contemporary Chicanx Literature - (ENGL167B CH)  
• CHST130 CH - (Re)Claiming Voices & Sharing Stories in Chicanx-Latinx Communities  
• CHST184D CH - Chicanx Short Fiction - (ENGL167C CH)  
• CHST185B CH - Narratives of U.S. Mexico Borderlands  
• CHST186 CH - Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar - (ENGL167D CH)  
• MUS130 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 (CP)  

3. Sin Fronteras: Latinx Experiences in the Americas

• CHLT060 CH - Women in the Third World  
• CHLT072 CH - Central Americans in the US  
• CHLT085 PZ - Gender, Radicalism and Revolution: Central American Feminisms  
• CHLT105 PZ - Undocumented Los Angeles  
• CHLT110 PZ - Latinx Community Health  
• CHLT120 PZ - Immigration from “The Tropics” to the Borderlands: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives  
• CHLT154 CH - Latinas in the Garment Industry  
• EA099 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  
• HIST080 PO - Revolutions, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910  
• HIST031 CH - Colonial Latin America  
• HIST032 CH - Latin America Since Independence  
• HIST034 CH - Mexico; from Indigenous Societies to Modern State  
• HIST132 PO - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America  
• HIST131 CH - Race, Culture, Identity, and Power in Latin America   
• HIST127 CH - American Inequality   
• POST107 CH - Latino Politics  
• POST174 CH - U.S. Immigration Policy and Transnational Politics   
• SOC155 CH - Rural and Urban Social Movements  
• SPAN131 SC - 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  

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 154 CH , CHLT 157 CH , POST 107 CH , SOC 030 CH , SOC 114 CH , SOC 150 CH , SOC 155 CH .