Major and Minor Requirements

Major Requirements

Lower Division Requirements:

8 semester hours

  • CLST 1116 Introduction to Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies 4 semester hours
  • CLST 2100 Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Methods 4 semester hours

Upper Division Requirements:

29 semester hours

  • Critical Explorations: 16 semester hours, 4 semester hours per category: History, Media & Visual Culture, Social Science, and Language & Literature
  • Specialization: 4 additional semester hours from Critical Explorations or an upper division non-CLST cross-listed course
  • Capstone: 9 semester hours, Fall and Spring of senior year-FALL: CLST 5001 Capstone Research and CLST 5002 Advanced Critical Methods; Spring: CLST 5003 Capstone Seminar

Minor Requirements

25 semester hours:

Lower Division: 8 semester hours

  • CLST 1116 Introduction to Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies 4 semester hours
  • CLST 2100 Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Methods 4 semester hours

Upper Division: 17 semester hours

  • Critical Explorations: 8 semester hours in two of the following categories: History, Media & Visual Culture, Social Science and Language & Literature 
  • Capstone: 9 semester hours, Fall and Spring of senior year-Fall: CLST 5002 Advanced Critical Methods and CLST 5001 Capstone Research; Spring- CLST 5003 Capstone Seminar