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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.
Latina/Latino Studies Minor Requirements
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.
No more than 3 hours may be at the 100 level and at least 6 hours must be 300 and 400-level courses.
Completion of the minor requires a minimum grade point average of 2.75 (A+ = 4.0) in Latina/Latino Studies courses.
Core course (3 hours)
- LLS 100: Intro Latina/Latino Studies (3 hours)
Thematic Courses (9 hours)
Students must take one course in each of the three following areas:
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 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
Elective LLS courses (6 hours)
Six hours of electives must be selected from an approved course list maintained by the Latina/Latino Studies office and the LLS advisor.
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Cross-Listed Courses
A substantial number of our courses are cross-listed with other units (for example, LLS 392/GWS 392/SOC 392). If students are unable to register under the LLS section and enroll in one of the cross-listed courses, the cross-listed section can count as one of the LLS courses for the major. Students should be aware though that courses used to fulfill their undergraduate major requirements cannot also be used to fulfill minor requirements.
Curricular Change Forms
Students must officially declare their minor by registering with the Latina/Latino Studies advisor.