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 (SPAN 044 SC, SPAN 065 CH, or equivalent).

Language Requirement:

All CLS majors must demonstrate fluency in Spanish by completing SPAN 65 CH (Spanish for Bilinguals), SPAN 044 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)

• course - Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Thesis (spring semester, senior year) or

• course - 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 U.S.

• CHLT157 CH - Latina Activists Work and Protest

• course - Intro to Central American Studies Part II: Contemporary Politics and Cultures in the U.S.

• CHST077 CH - Chicana - Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture

• course - Introduction to Chicanx Latinx History

• course - Latin America Since Independence

• course - History of Mexico

• course - Psychology of the Chicanx Latinx Experience

• course - Chicanxs - Latinxs in Contemporary Society

• course - 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 and Latinas

• CHLT110 PZ - Latinx Community Health

• 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

• CHLT170 CH - Black and Indigenous Central Americans

• courseCHST055 CH - Digitizing our Testimonios: Chicanx-Latinx Documentary Storytelling

• CHST077 CH - Chicana - Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture

• course - Latinxs in the 20th Century

• course - Immigration Community Parternships

• course - Latinx Social Movements: Identity, Power, and Resistance

• course - Latinx Activism and Struggles for Sanctuary in the San Gabriel Valley

• course - Latinx Oral Histories (CP)

• course - American Inequality

• POST107 CH - Latino Politics

• POST118 PZ - The Criminalization of Latinxs and Resistance

• POST198 CH - God in the Barrio

• course - Psychology of the Chicanx Latinx Experience

• course - Seminar in Latinx Mental Health

• course - Seminar in Health and The Latinx Experience

• RLST173 CM - US Latino Religions and Politics

• course - Chicanxs - Latinxs in Contemporary Society

• course - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequalities and Activism

• course - Chicanxs - Latinxs and Education

• course - Spanglish in Context: Bilingualism in the United States

2. Experiencia: Literature, Music and Representation

• course - Introduction to Latin/x American Art

• course - US-Mexico Border Art

• CHLT068 CH - Rock en 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

• course - (Re)Claiming Voices & Sharing Stories in Chicanx Latinx Communities

• CHST184D CH - Chicanx Short Fiction

• CHST185B CH - Narratives of U.S.- Mexico Borderlands

• CHST185C CH - Voices of the Tropics: Latina Literature of the Caribbean

• CHST186 CH - Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar

• MUS130 SC - Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic

• SPAN127 CH - Literatura Chicana en Español

• course - 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 and Revolution: Central American Feminisms

• CHLT105 PZ - Undocumented Los Angeles: The Untold Story of Organizing

• CHLT120 PZ - Immigration from “The Tropics” to the Borderlands: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

• CHLT153 CH - Rural and Urban Social Movements

• CHLT154 CH - Latinas in the Garment Industry

• CHLT160 CH - Queering (Im)Migration: LGBTI & Gender Nonconforming Migration from Central America

• course - Intro to Central American Studies Part II: Contemporary Politics and Cultures in the U.S.

• CHST121 CH - Artivistas in the Americas

• course - Latinx Citizenship: Race and Migration

• course - Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Uncovering Local and Global Disparities

• course - Economics of Immigration

• course - Introduction to Chicanx Latinx History

• course - All Power to the People! Social Movements for Justice

• course - Colonial Latin America

• course - Latin America Since Independence

• course - History of Mexico

• course - Revolutions, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910

• course - California in the Sixties

• course - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees

• course - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America

• POST174 CH - U.S. Immigration Policy

• POST175 PZ - Immigration and Race in America

• SPAN131 SC - Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America

• course - From Borges to ‘literatura lite”: Voice Power Género in Latin American Literature

• course - 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, CHLT120 PZ, course, course, course, CHLT153 CH, CHLT154 CH, CHLT157 CH, CHLT160 CH, course, course, POST 107 CH, course, course