Requirements

Major

The Latino/a and Latin American Studies Major requires 44 units (or 11 courses). The course distribution requirements are: LLAS 101, one Methods course, two classes on Latin America, two classes on U.S. Latinx, three additional electives from any of the courses listed below, LLAS 490, and either SPAN 202 or SPAN 211.

 

Introductory Course

LLAS 101

Introduction to Latina/o and Latin American Studies

4 units

Language Proficiency

Students must complete one of the following:

SPAN 202	Advanced Spanish	4 units
SPAN 211	Spanish for Heritage Speakers	4 units

Methods

Students must complete one of the following:

POLS 300	Research Methods in Politics and Public Policy	4 units
SOC 304	Sociological Inquiry	4 units

Latin American Studies Courses

Students must complete two courses on Latin America selected from the list below:

DWA 222	Latin America Political Economy	4 units
DWA 224/POLS 221	Latin American Politics	4 units
DWA 229/LLAS 229	Introduction to Human Rights: Focus on the Americas	4 units
DWA 286	Public Diplomacy in the Americas	4 units
HIST 150/LLAS 150	Colonial Latin America	4 units
HIST 151/LLAS 151	Modern Latin America	4 units
LLAS 102/MUSC 102	Music of Latin America	4 units
LLAS 210/SOC 210	The Struggle for Human Rights in Mexico	4 units
LLAS 223/PHIL 223	Mexican Philosophy, Culture, and Society	4 units
LLAS 252/HIST 252	Religion in Mexico, Pre-Columbian Times to Present	4 units
LLAS 254/HIST 254	The History of Race in Latin America	4 units
LLAS 258/HIST 258	Twentieth Century Mexico	4 units
LLAS 301	Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Latin America	4 units
LLAS 302	The Mexican Revolution	4 units
LLAS 355/HIST 355	Indians of Mexico	4 units
LLAS 357/HIST 357	Environmental History of Mesoamerica	4 units
LLAS 358/HIST 358	Food and Drink in Mexican History	4 units
PHIL 223/LLAS 223	Mexican Philosophy, Culture, and Society	4 units
RELS 228/LLAS 228	Religion, Liberation, and Latin American Social Movements	4 units
SPAN 303	Introduction to Modern Latin American Literature and Culture	4 units
SPAN 313	Latin American Film and Culture	4 units
SPAN 314	Latin American Women's Voices in Fiction and Film	4 units

U.S. Latinx courses:

Students must complete two courses on U.S. Latinx selected from the list below:

ECON 324	The Economics of Immigration	4 units
LLAS 202/AMST 202	Latina/o Cultural and Intellectual History	4 units
LLAS 205/POLS 205	Latino/a Politics	4 units
LLAS 206/EDUC 205	The Politics and Pedagogy of First and Second Language Acquisition	4 units
LLAS 213/EDUC 213	Chicano Education	4 units
LLAS 323/PHIL 322	Latinx Philosophy	4 units
LLAS 259/HIST 259	Health on the Move: Immigrant and Refugee Resilience	4 units
LLAS 260/AMST 260	United States Latino Literature and Cultural Studies	4 units
LLAS 304/HIST 300	Mexico-U.S. Borderlands	4 units
LLAS 321/SOC 321	Immigration to the United States from Mexico and Central America	4 units
MUSC 386	Performance and Politics of the United States-Mexico Border	4 units
PHIL 322/LLAS 323	Latinx Philosophy	4 units
SPAN 383	Survey of Chicano Literature	4 units

Senior Seminar

LLAS 490

Senior Seminar

4 units

Electives

Three additional electives from any subject area listed above.  At least one such elective must be at the 300-level (to satisfy the College's Second-Stage Writing Requirement).

Minor

To complete the LLAS minor, five courses (20 units) are required in the following distribution: LLAS 101 plus four LLAS electives selected from any of the courses above.