Gustavo Licón
Assistant Professor and Coordinator
The Latino/Latina Studies minor (a.k.a. Latinx Studies) explores the experiences of peoples that trace their ancestry back to regions of the Americas (North and South) in what is now the United States and its territories. The minor focuses on studying people that were colonized by Spain and Portugal at some point, as well as indigenous peoples, mixed race (Afro) Mestizas/os, and people of African and European descent in the Americas. Latino and Latina are demographic and political labels created in the 1980s to help build nation-wide political power and unity amongst Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans living in the U.S., as well as the growing number of people immigrating from Central and South America, including the Dominican Republic. Latinx is a label that emerged more recently to question gender norms and labels in the field. The minor centers the experiences and voices of Latinos, Latinas, and Latinx people while exploring major historic and current events in the U.S. and Latin America. Because Latinx Studies is interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, students can take classes with CSCRE and affiliated faculty to learn about Latinx history, culture, art, theater, politics, and media. Students also learn about the European colonization of the Americas, U.S.-Latin American relations, American imperialism, Latin American immigration, social hierarchies, intersectionality, and how Latinx communities have reshaped the United States.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the long-term relationship between the U.S and Latin America, and how that has resulted in a long-standing and growing Latino/a/x presence in the U.S.
- Examine how social hierarchies intersectionally impact members of the Latinx community
- Critically review, critique, and write about Latino/Latina/Latinx Studies scholarship
- Express how Latinx individuals and communities have organized to resist, survive, and thrive.
Minors are required to take six courses (18 credit hours), two from Conceptual Frameworks and one each from the following four categories:
- Policy and Praxis
- Culture and History
- Power and Liberation
- Comparative and International
The Minor in Latino/a/x Studies: FALL 2021 courses are in bold.
Conceptual Framework Courses (6 credits required in this category)
CSCR |
10700 |
Introduction to Latino/a Studies |
CSCR |
12300 |
Introduction to Culture, Race & Ethnicity Concepts |
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 |
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 |
SOCI |
43501 |
ST: Surveillance & Society |
Culture & History (choose one 3 credit course in this category)
CSCR |
20700 |
Hip Hop Feminism |
CSCR |
21100 |
American Gangster |
CSCR |
26100 |
Watching Race in American Media |
ARTH |
28700 |
Latinx Art in the United States |
ARTH |
22929 |
ST: Art: Race and Representation in Latin America |
ANTH |
36400 |
From Equal to Unequal: New World Transformations |
ENGL |
36900 |
Multicultural American Literature |
HIST |
18400 |
Caribbean History 1492-present |
HIST |
23300 |
Colonial Latin America |
SPAN |
32500 |
Experiencing Hispanic Literature |
SPAN |
33300 |
Latin American Civil Society & Culture |
SPAN |
33800 |
Introduction to Latin American Literature |
SPAN |
38000 |
Latino/a Culture through Literature |
SPAN |
37900 |
ST: Spanish & Latin American Literature & Culture |
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 |
SPAN |
33400 |
Teatro: From Page to Stage |
Comparative & International (choose one 3 credit course in this category)
CSCR |
23700 |
Policing the Borderlands: Power, Policy, and Justice |
CSCR |
42000 |
Scholarship of and by Women of Color |
ARTH |
26500 |
Latin American Modern Art |
ARTH |
22926 |
Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture |
HIST |
23400 |
Modern Latin America |
HIST |
38700 |
History of Disease and Health in Latin America |
LNGS |
11100 |
Global Screen Cultures |
POLT |
34012 |
Race & International Relations Theory |
POLT |
33100 |
Latin American Politics |
SOCI |
20700 |
Race and Ethnicity |
SOCI |
33700 |
Special Topics in Inequality: Advanced Race and Ethnicity |
SOCI |
34500 |
21st Century Conversations on Race |