Latina/Latino Studies

The Bachelor of Arts in Latina/Latino Studies program provides students with a solid grounding in the theoretical approaches and methodologies that define the field. The program prepares students to pursue graduate and professional studies or to begin careers in the public or private sectors. The major consists of:

• 18 units of core courses
• 21 units of courses selected from five focus areas

Students must complete a minimum of three units from each of the five focus areas. Units may not be double counted for multiple focus areas. Students who complete nine units in one focus area receive a concentration in that focus area.

Latina/Latino Studies focus areas are:

1. Performance, Arts, Literature and Media (PALM)
2. Feminisms, Sexualities, and Queer of Color Critique (FSQ)
3. Politics, Policy, Law, and Economics (PPLE)
4. Education, History, and Decolonial Knowledges (EHD)
5. Health, Migration, and Transnational Studies (HMT)

Students completing a Bachelor of Arts in Latina/Latino Studies fulfill their GWAR requirement through ETHS 300GW Writing in Ethnic Studies - GWAR or other approved GWAR course. The writing requirement units are not included in total units for the major.

For the core courses in the LTNS Major, a passing grade of C- minus or higher is required, for all other LTNS courses a passing grade is a D. For credit/no credit consult the university bulletin.

Nine transfer units in Latina/Latino Studies (or equivalent field) may count toward the major.

1. To understand and identify the origins and context of diverse individual and group experiences of Latinas and Latinos in the United States.
2. To develop an understanding of Latina/Latino Studies that is community-centered, reflexive, gender sensitive, and grounded in a multidisciplinary perspective.
3. To assess the historical and contemporary experiences of Latinas and Latinos with special emphasis on gender and how gender structures identities, roles, and relationships both domestically and transnationally.
4. To develop competency in the research and analysis of the personal, family, immigration, gender, and youth histories of Latinas/Latinos in the United States through the utilization of oral history and ethnographic theoretical perspectives and methodologies.
5. To be able to make links between content in the Latina/Latino Studies curriculum and practice in the community.
6. To develop an area of expertise and depth in Latina/Latino populations in the United States. In addition to the major's multidisciplinary foundation, we encourage students to sharpen their expertise in Latino demographics and one of the three broad areas of our departmental course offerings: #1 Arts and Humanities, #2 History, or #3 Behavioral and Social Science.
7. To develop competency in writing skills relevant to Latina/Latino Studies and Ethnic Studies.

Shehaadat al-thaanawiya al-'aama | General Certificate of Secondary Education