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Latino/a Studies GIS Requirements

The graduate specialization will consist of 15 credit hours, comprised of at least four different courses. All students will be required to take the core course: ASC 705 Graduate Introduction to Latino/a Studies. From there, students will select one of three focus areas: Culture and Literature; History; and Social Issues. These focus areas will provide for a more guided experience within the GIS and highlight the scholarship fields of our faculty.  Additional requirements include: at least 14 hours must be taken outside a student’s home graduate program but may include cross-listed courses so long as the student enrolls in a department other than his/her own; at least 10 of the 15 hours must be at the 600-level or above.

 Culture, Literature and Arts Focus

 Students choosing this area will focus their coursework on the various forms of creative expressions that have emerged from the U.S. Latina/o community: literature, film, art, dance, theater, music, comic books, and more. This might also occasion the exploration of Latina/o cultural phenomena as it interfaces with that arising out of communities in the Americas generally. Students will explore just how such Latina/o cultural making and engaging is a means of creative expression as well as a potential vehicle for social transformation.

5 Hour Core Course: ASC 705: Graduate Intro to Latino/a Studies

Students choose 2 courses from the following:

Comparative Studies 544

EDT&L 803, 906

English 575, 578*, 581*, 758, 760*, 864*

Spanish 560, 760*, 858

 History Focus

This focus area will situate Latina/o history on the border between U.S. and Latin American history. Students will learn about the experiences of communities who had been rendered invisible by canonical histories in the U.S. and Latin America. Moreover, they will learn new methodologies for historical research and gain a greater understanding of the relationship between history and power.

5 Hour Core Course: ASC 705: Graduate Intro to Latino/a Studies

Students choose 2 courses from the following:

AAAS 595/756

History 533.01, 751

Spanish 757, 856

Social Issues Focus

 The emphasis of this focus area will be the current issues affecting the Latina/o population in the U.S. These social issues (that stretch across the Americas) may include, though are not limited to, immigration, educational policy, language, labor, voting trends, etc. Classes will require students to analyze current media reports about the contemporary state of affairs in the Latina/o community and place these reports within a broader historical backdrop.

 5 Hour Core Course: ASC 705: Graduate Intro to Latino/a Studies

Students choose 2 courses from the following:

C&RP 765

EDT&L 864, 925, 976

English 791, 864*

HDFS 771

Poli Sci 707, 737

Sociology 756, 761, 780, 884.06

Spanish 689

Women’s Studies 620*, 710

* Topics courses: A syllabus of the course must be submitted to the GIS cooridnator (Latino/a Studies program coordinator) in order to be counted on the GIS.