Introduction to the Major
Chicanx and Latinx Studies(link is external) is grounded in the decolonization and liberation projects of U.S. Latina/os and their allies in the civil rights, gender, and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s that continue through the present in new forms that address new conditions. We take seriously the knowledges, epistemologies and critical thinking produced by racially and sexually oppressed subjects, and endeavor to examine the entangled intersectionality of racialized sexuality, gender, and class in complex socio-historical processes.
The Major Curriculum
Our courses on the U.S. Latina/o experience contribute to the production of truly universal knowledges about the United States and an increasingly interconnected world beyond the limited scope of Eurocentric or other ethnocentric perspectives and disciplinary constraints. Courses in the program include the social sciences, geography, history, literature, visual cultural studies, performance arts, public policy, education, health, theater, film, media, religion, and philosophy. In addition, we offer practicum courses in creative writing, research methods, visual and performance arts and field studies/internship experience in various community organizations.
Amplify Your Major
- Enrich your studies with a summer minor in Race and the Law(link is external).
- Enrich your studies with a Summer Abroad course (CHICANO N180) in Barcelona or Mexico City.
- Get involved with community-facing student groups such as the La Raza Workers’ and Tenants’ Rights Clinic(link is external).
- Complete a senior honors thesis in the major.
