Requirements
Students must complete 34 hours of required and elective courses: 28 hours of core courses and 6 hours of electives, with at least 12 hours being at the 300-400 level. Also, students must complete an additional 18 hours of supporting coursework.
Latina/Latino Studies Major checklist
Core Courses (28 hours)
- LLS 100: Intro Latina/Latino Studies (3 hours)
- LLS 385: Theory and Methods in LLS (3 hours) (offered only in Fall)
- LLS 490: Research and Writing Seminar (4 hours, offered in Spring) or LLS 495: Senior Honors Thesis (4 hours)
- Students must take two courses in each of the three following areas (18 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 Cultures
- LLS 301: 19thC US Latina/o Lit-ACP
- LLS 360: Contemporary US Latina/o Lit
- LLS 375: Latina/o Media in the US
Victoria Giesso presents her senior paper, "Chicago and the Pink River of Mortality," 2018 - 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 215: US Citizenship Comparatively
- LLS 230: Latina/o Genders & Sexualities
- LLS 265: Politics of Hip Hop
- LLS 320: Gender & Latina/o Migration
LLS majors and minors at LLS graduation luncheon, 2017 - 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
Vanessa Garcia presents her senior paper, "Semillas De Cuál Tierra?: Analyzing the Reproductions of Violence Against Indigenous Peoples," 2018 - 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
LLS Electives (6 hours)
Six hours of electives must be selected from the above categories and an approved course list maintained by the Latina/Latino Studies office and the LLS advisor.
Supporting Coursework (18 hours)
Eighteen hours of supporting coursework must be chosen in consultation with an advisor; may be a campus-approved minor.
Total Credit Hours (52 hours)
- 28 hours Core Courses
- 6 hours LLS Electives
- 18 hours Supporting Coursework
- 52 HOURS TOTAL
Note: Twelve hours of advanced (300- and 400-level) courses must be taken on this campus.
Departmental Distinction
To be eligible for departmental distinction, a student must achieve at least a 3.25 cumulative grade point average, a minimum 3.5 GPA in the major, and complete a senior honors thesis. Students graduating with at least a 3.5 GPA in the major will be awarded Distinction; those with at least a 3.7 GPA in the major will be given High Distinction.
