Major Requirements

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/LLAS 150	Colonial Latin America	4 units
And
HIST 151/LLAS 151	Modern Latin America	4 units
Or
POLS 221/DWA 224	Latin American Politics	4 units

U.S. Latino survey courses:

Students must take the following two courses:

POLS 205/LLAS 205	Latino/a Politics	4 units
LLAS 202/AMST 202	Latina/o Cultural and Intellectual History	4 units

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. 

AMST 260/LLAS 260	United States Latino Literature and Cultural Studies	4 units
ECON 324	The Economics of Immigration	4 units
EDUC 213/LLAS 213	Chicano Education	4 units
DWA 237	Cuba, Vietnam, China: Communism in a Post-Communist World	4 units
HIST 151/LLAS 151	Modern Latin America	4 units
HIST 252/LLAS 252	Religion in Mexico, PreColumbian Times to Present	4 units
HIST 258/LLAS 258	Twentieth Century Mexico	4 units
HIST 254/LLAS 254	The History of Race in Latin America	4 units
HIST 355/LLAS 355	Indians of Mexico	4 units
HIST 359/LLAS 359	Mexico-United States Borderlands	4 units
LLAS 250	Dialogue on Critical Latinx/Latin American Issues	4 units
MUSC 102/LLAS 102	Music of Latin America	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/DWA 224	Latin American Politics	4 units
PSYC 385/LLAS 385	Chicanx Identities and Social Institutions: Education, Health, Politics	4 units
RELS 228	Chican@ Religious Identities	4 units
SOC 210/LLAS 210	The Struggle for Human Rights in Mexico	4 units
SOC 335/LLAS 335	Democratizing Latin America	4 units
SPAN 301	Introduction to Pre-Columbian and Colonial 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
THEA 303/LLAS 303	Latina/o Theater	4 units

Senior Seminar

LLAS 490

Senior Seminar

4 units