2024-2025 Catalog

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 101Introduction to Latina/o and Latin American Studies

4 units

Language Proficiency

Students must complete one of the following:

SPAN 202Advanced Spanish

4 units

SPAN 211Spanish for Heritage Speakers

4 units

Methods

Students must complete one of the following:
POLS 300Research Methods in Politics and Public Policy

4 units

SOC 304Sociological Inquiry

4 units

Latin American Studies Courses

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

DWA 222Latin America Political Economy

4 units

DWA 224/POLS 221Latin American Politics

4 units

DWA 229/LLAS 229Introduction to Human Rights: Focus on the Americas

4 units

DWA 240/LLAS 261Human Rights in Colombia: Comparative Perspectives

4 units

DWA 286Public Diplomacy in the Americas

4 units

HIST 150/LLAS 150Colonial Latin America

4 units

HIST 151/LLAS 151Modern Latin America

4 units

LLAS 102/MUSC 102Music of Latin America

4 units

LLAS 207/SOC 207Latina and Latin American Women’s Labors

4 units

LLAS 210/SOC 210The Struggle for Human Rights in Mexico

4 units

LLAS 223/PHIL 223Mexican Philosophy, Culture, and Society

4 units

LLAS 252/HIST 252Religion in Mexico, Pre-Columbian Times to Present

4 units

LLAS 254/HIST 254The History of Race in Latin America

4 units

LLAS 258/HIST 258Twentieth Century Mexico

4 units

LLAS 301Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Latin America

4 units

LLAS 302The Mexican Revolution

4 units

LLAS 322/SOC 322Central American Feminisms and Social Movements

4 units

LLAS 355/HIST 355Indians of Mexico

4 units

LLAS 357/HIST 357Environmental History of Mesoamerica

4 units

LLAS 358/HIST 358Food and Drink in Mexican History

4 units

PHIL 223/LLAS 223Mexican Philosophy, Culture, and Society

4 units

RELS 228/LLAS 228Religion, Liberation, and Latin American Social Movements

4 units

SPAN 303Introduction to Modern Latin American Literature and Culture

4 units

SPAN 313Latin American Film and Culture

4 units

SPAN 314Latin 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 324The Economics of Immigration

4 units

LLAS 202/AMST 202Latina/o Cultural and Intellectual History

4 units

LLAS 205/POLS 205Latino/a Politics

4 units

LLAS 206/EDUC 205The Politics and Pedagogy of First and Second Language Acquisition

4 units

LLAS 207/SOC 207Latina and Latin American Women’s Labors

4 units

LLAS 213/EDUC 213Chicano Education

4 units

LLAS 323/PHIL 322Latinx Philosophy

4 units

LLAS 259/HIST 259Health on the Move: Immigrant and Refugee Resilience

4 units

LLAS 260/AMST 260United States Latino Literature and Cultural Studies

4 units

LLAS 304/HIST 300Mexico-U.S. Borderlands

4 units

LLAS 321/SOC 321Immigration to the United States from Mexico and Central America

4 units

MUSC 386Performance and Politics of the United States-Mexico Border

4 units

PHIL 322/LLAS 323Latinx Philosophy

4 units

SPAN 342Spanish in the United States

4 units

SPAN 383Survey of Chicano Literature

4 units

Senior Seminar

LLAS 490Senior 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.