Requirements
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies offers a campus-wide minor that provides students with the opportunity to critically explore various facets of U.S. Latina/o social, political, and cultural life. Students will also more generally gain a deeper understanding of race, ethnicity, and diversity in the United States. The Department of Latina/Latino Studies must approve a student's minor course plan.
The Minor in Latina/Latino Studies will allow students following any major plan of study to gain extensive knowledge in Latina/Latino Studies by means of a set of six courses (at least 18 credits hours) chosen in consultation with a Latina/Latino Studies Advisor.
Latina/Latino Studies Minor checklist
- LLS 100: Intro Latina/Latino Studies (3 hours)
- Students must take one course in each of the three following areas (9 hours total):
Literature, Media, and Culture
- LLS 240: Latina/o Popular Culture
- LLS 242: Intro to Latina/o Literature
- LLS 250: Latina/os on the Bronze Screen
- LLS 259: Latina/o Anthropology
- LLS 357: Literatures of the Displaced
- LLS 360: Contemporary US Latina/o Lit
- LLS 365: Chicana/Latina Autobiography, Memoir, Testimonio
- LLS 375: Latina/o Media in the US
- LLS 410: Writing Latina/o Chicago
- LLS 435: Commodifying Difference
- LLS 458: Latina/o Performance
- LLS 472: Border Latina, Latino Cultures
Race, Gender, and Sexuality
- LLS 230: Latina/o Genders & Sexualities
- LLS 235: Race and the Politics of Reproduction
- LLS 265: Politics of Hip Hop
- LLS 320: Gender & Latina/o Migration
- LLS 355: Race and Mixed Race
- LLS 387: Race, Gender and the Body
- LLS 392: Chicanas&Latinas: Self&Society
- LLS 442: Latina Literature
- LLS 465: Race, Sex, and Deviance
- LLS 479: Race, Medicine, and Society
History, Politics, and Society
- LLS 220: Latina/o Migration
- LLS 238: Latina/o Social Movements
- LLS 278: Mapping Latina/o Inequalities
- LLS 279: Mexican-American History
- LLS 280: Caribbean Latina/o Migration
- LLS 343: Criminalization and Punishment
- LLS 368: Latinas/os & Public Policy
- LLS 370: Latina/o Ethnography
- LLS 379: Latina/os and the City
- LLS 382: Race and Migration in Chicago
- LLS 468: Latinas/os & the Law
- LLS 473: Immigration, Health & Society
No more than 3 hours may be at the 100 level and at least 6 hours must be 300 and 400-level courses.
Students must officially declare their minor by registering with the Latina/Latino Studies advisor.
Completion of the minor requires a minimum grade point average of 2.75 (A+ = 4.0) in Latina/Latino Studies courses.
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