The Chicano & Latino Studies Program incorporates the arts and literature, cultural studies, history, various social sciences, and policy studies. Youll explore the dimensions of race, ethnicity, culture and identity, gender, and class in the United States, both historically and in contemporary times. As a Chicano & Latino Studies major, youll take courses offered in two broadly defined fields of study, humanities and social science. Humanities content includes courses that focus on creating awareness for Chicana/o culture, while social science courses emphasize contemporary Chicana/o issues as they relate to the larger society.
The B.A. degree in Chicano & Latino Studies will help you prepare for careers serving Chicana/o-Latina/o constituencies and for graduate and advanced professional study in programs in which a minority affairs focus would be an asset. The program allows you the flexibility of pursuing work in related fields, such as Latin American studies, Spanish studies, Womens studies, and American studies.
The College of Liberal Arts Advantage: More Than a Major
When you study Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, you gain the added advantage of a College of Liberal Arts education. At CLA, the liberal arts mean you get more than just a degree in one major or another; it means you will be exposed to different areas of study, to different ways of thinking and learning. In fact, the liberal arts teach you how to learn—how to ask the right questions, how to problem solve, and how to innovate. The liberal arts highlight the complexities of our world, because here at CLA you will study not just, say, politics or art but also where politics and art intersect, where science and ethics intersect, where economics and the environment intersect.
