Gustavo Licón
Assistant Professor and Coordinator
The Latino/a Studies minor covers a broad range of issues, from the historically constructed and contested nature of individual identities to issues of cultural and historical representation, social justice, and struggles for racial redress. While the primary focus of the minor is on the experiences of Latino/as, its overall objective is to encourage, allow, and facilitate a study of the self in relation to the other. Where possible, courses rely on historical and comparative methodologies, a combination of epistemological/theoretical concerns with an analysis of "real-life" problems, and a critical approach to the processes of knowledge construction, all of which allow students to develop a contextual understanding of the issues they are studying.
Minors are required to take six courses (18 credit hours), two from Conceptual Frameworks and one each from the following four categories:
Comparative and International
Culture and History
Policy and Praxis
Power and Liberation
The Minor in Latino/a/x Studies SPRING 2020 courses are in bold.
Conceptual Framework Courses (6 credits required in this category)
|
CSCR |
10700 |
Introduction to Latino/a Studies (Licon) |
|
CSCR CSCR |
12300 14500 |
Introduction to Culture, Race & Ethnicity Concepts Or Politics of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Culture - (cross-listed with POLT 14500) |
Policy & Praxis {choose one 3 credit course in this category)
|
CSCR |
30501 |
Practicum in Social Change: Urban Mentorship Initiative |
|
CSCR |
32400 |
Critical Race Theories in the United States |
|
CSCR |
35200 |
Punishment, Prisons & Democracy |
|
CSCR |
38000 |
Applied Research in Culture, Race and Ethnicity |
|
ANTH |
36600 |
Anthropology of the U.S. Military |
|
SOCI |
20300 |
Juvenile Delinquency/Youth Incarceration and Justice |
|
SOCI |
24000 |
Special Topics in Inequality: Inequality and its Consequences |
|
SOCI |
33703 |
Discipline and Punishment in Public Schools |
Culture & History (choose one 3 credit course in this category)
|
CSCR |
21100 |
American Gangster |
|
CSCR |
26100 |
Watching Race in American Media |
|
ARTH |
28700 |
Latino Art in the United States |
|
ANTH |
36400 |
From Equal to Unequal: New World Transformations |
|
HIST |
23300 |
Colonial Latin America |
|
SPAN |
33800 |
Introduction to Latin American Literature |
|
SPAN |
35200 |
Experiencing Hispanic Literature |
|
SPAN |
38000 |
Latino/a Culture through Literature |
|
SPAN |
37900 |
Latin American Fiction |
|
SPAN |
47300 |
Modernismo |
Power & Liberation (choose one 3 credit course in this category)
|
CSCR |
25600 |
Politics of Whiteness |
|
CSCR |
30100 |
Feminist and Queer Latinx |
|
CSCR |
35100 |
Race & Sexual Politics |
|
CSCR |
37400 |
Latino/a Resistance Movements |
|
HIST |
39202 |
Revolution & Counter Revolutions |
|
HLTH |
21300 |
Multicultural Perspectives on Healing |
|
POLT |
40112 |
SEM: Global Indigenous Struggle |
|
SOCI |
43701 |
Special Topics in Inequality: Women of Color |
Comparative & International (choose one 3 credit course in this category)
|
CSCR |
23700 |
Policing the Borderlands: Power, Policy, and Justice |
|
ARTH |
26500 |
Latin American Modern Art |
|
HIST |
23400 |
Modern Latin America |
|
HIST |
38700 |
History of Disease and Health in Latin America |
|
POLT |
34012 |
Race & International Relations Theory |
|
POLT |
33100 |
Latin American Politics |
|
SOCI |
20700 |
Race and Ethnicity |
|
SOCI |
34500 |
21st Century Conversations on Race |