COURSEWORK
The Latino/a and Latin American Studies Major requires ten courses (40 units) plus SPAN 202 OR SPAN 211. Students are strongly encouraged to take a one unit-course in United States Latino or Latin American Performance Art (Music or Dance) before they graduate. The ten course distribution requirements are:
Introductory course:
| LLAS 101 | Introduction to Latina/o and Latin American Studies | 4 units |
Latin American survey courses
Students must complete HIST 150 and one of the following two courses:
U.S. Latino survey courses:
Students must take the following two courses:
Additional Electives:
Students must also select four additional electives from the following list of courses (not counting courses used to satisfy the "Latin American survey" requirement above). Two of these must be at the 300 level. One of the four electives must be an arts or humanities course.
| LLAS 102/MUSC 102 | Music of Latin America | 4 units |
| LLAS 151/HIST 151 | Modern Latin America | 4 units |
| LLAS 210/SOC 210 | The Struggle for Human Rights in Mexico | 4 units |
| LLAS 213/EDUC 213 | Chicano Education | 4 units |
| LLAS 250 | Dialogue on Critical Latinx/Latin American Issues | 4 units |
| LLAS 252/HIST 252 | Religion in Mexico, PreColumbian Times to Present | 4 units |
| LLAS 258/HIST 258 | Mexican Politics in the Twentieth Century | 4 units |
| LLAS 260/AMST 260 | United States Latino Literature and Cultural Studies | 4 units |
| LLAS 303/THEA 303 | Latina/o Theater | 4 units |
| LLAS 335/SOC 335 | Democratizing Latin America | 4 units |
| LLAS 355/HIST 355 | Indians of Mexico | 4 units |
| LLAS 385/PSYC 385 | Chicanx in Contemporary United States Society | 4 units |
| DWA 237 | Cuba, Vietnam, China: Communism in a Post-Communist World | 4 units |
| DWA 240 | Comparative Revolutions | 4 units |
| ECON 324 | The Economics of Immigration | 4 units |
| HIST 300 | History Colloquium | 4 units |
| HIST 354 | The History of Race in Latin America | 4 units |
| HIST 359 | Mexico-United States Borderlands | 4 units |
| MUSC 385 | Advanced Topics in the Critical Study of Music | 4 units |
| MUSC 386 | Performance and Politics of the United States-Mexico Border | 4 units |
| POLS 221 | Latin American Politics | 4 units |
| RELS 228 | Chican@ Religious Identities | 4 units |
| SOC 420 | Immigration to the United States From Mexico and Central America | 4 units |
| SPAN 301 | Introduction to Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Literature and Civilization | 4 units |
| SPAN 303 | Introduction to Modern Latin American Literature and Civilization | 4 units |
| SPAN 309 | Latin American Writers in Spain | 4 units |
| SPAN 313 | Latin American Film and Culture | 4 units |
| SPAN 314 | Latin American Women's Voices in Fiction and Film | 4 units |
| SPAN 363 | Hispanic Autobiography | 4 units |
| SPAN 370 | The Jungle in Modern Latin American Literature | 4 units |
| SPAN 377 | Magical Realism in Latin America | 4 units |
| SPAN 383 | Survey of Chicano Literature | 4 units |
Senior Seminar
SECOND-STAGE WRITING REQUIREMENT
The second-stage writing requirement for the LLAS major may be satisfied by taking any of the elective courses listed below and earning the grade of B- or better. Course offerings will vary by year, so if a student is not able to take a designated course (due to study abroad, exceeding the departmental elective limit, etc), he or she can petition in advance to take an alternate course.
| LLAS 335/SOC 335 | Democratizing Latin America | 4 units |
| HIST 300 | History Colloquium | 4 units |
| HIST 359 | Mexico-United States Borderlands | 4 units |
| MUSC 386 | Performance and Politics of the United States-Mexico Border | 4 units |
| SOC 420 | Immigration to the United States From Mexico and Central America | 4 units |
COMPREHENSIVE REQUIREMENT
To satisfy the comprehensive requirement students will produce a Senior thesis in the Senior Seminar. Declared majors propose the topic of their thesis before the end of their Junior year. The thesis is a research based essay of approximately 30 pages integrating both primary and secondary source materials. Successful completion of the Senior thesis along with a public presentation of it in the spring semester will satisfy the LLAS comprehensive requirement.