Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies (CLST)

Part one of three. Open to all first-year students, including Chicana/o Latina/o Studies majors and minors and Latinx Alumni Association scholars. Students engage one another in conversations about shared identities and learn about university resources for academic, social, and professional success.

Part two of three. Open to all first-year students, including Chicana/o Latina/o Studies majors and minors and Latinx Alumni Association scholars. Students engage one another in conversations about shared identities and learn about university resources for academic, social, and professional success.

An interdisciplinary overview of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies to familiarize students with historical and contemporary issues in Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.

Part three of three. Open to all sophomores, including Chicana/o Latina/o Studies majors and minors and Latinx Alumni Association scholars. Students engage one another in conversations about shared identities and learn about university resources for academic, social, and professional success.

This course introduces students to interdisciplinary and intersectional forms of analysis and is required of CLST majors and minors. This is a course about how we approach our fields of study (they may be multiple) and how the questions we ask shape what we can know.

An overview of a range of genre, themes, and concepts created by Chicana/o and other U.S. Latina/o writers.

First-semester transfer students who have declared Chicana/o Latina/o Studies majors and minors or Latinx Alumni Association scholars take this course to find community, build a Latine consciousness at LMU, and learn about university resources for academic, social, and professional success. Consent of Instructor.

(See WGST 3301.)

Analysis of the historical, social, and cultural characteristics that shape the roles of Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S.

Using service learning in Los Angeles, the course helps students understand how the lives of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os are shaped by politics, economics, culture, history, and access to nation-state institutions. Corequisite: CLST 3309. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Engaged Learning.

This course is a zero-semester-hour lab that is required for CLST 3308. Corequisite: CLST 3308. Credit/No Credit only.

The course investigates the Virgin of Guadalupe's religious, cultural, and artistic significance among Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the United States. It uses interdisciplinary methods to examine Latino theology, the faith-practices and devotions to Guadalupe, and contemporary visual arts. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Faith and Reason; Flag: Writing.

An exploration of the connections between Los Angeles and Mexico City, which include the analysis of the shared political, economic, and social futures of both cities. Students will consider a variety of scholarly disciplines and perspectives with an emphasis on field research performed in Los Angeles and Mexico City. The week long trip to Mexico City takes place in the month of June. Permission of instructor required.

Comparative analysis of racial and ethnic groups within the United States political system. A focus on the effect of political institutions on minority groups at federal, state, and local levels. Examines the experience of minority groups to illuminate political process in the U.S. University Core fulfilled: Flag: Quantitative Literacy.

Examines Chicana/o-Latina/o literature, its criticism as well as its various artistic genres, introducing students to its aesthetic and social values. (See ENGL 3350.) University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.

An analytical survey of Native America, Latina/o America, and the recent past with a focus on race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and class. University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives; Flag: Writing.

Examines the social, cultural, and political impact of sports in a variety of U.S contexts from the 19th century to the present. Attention given to the ways organized sports constitutes, disrupts, and creates new understanding of race.

(See WGST 3600.)

Students' work will focus on historical context and real-time unfolding of Mexico's political development, structures, dynamics, and issues defining and redefining politics in Mexico today, including U.S. relations and the further turns these could take.

An upper-division examination of the connections between Los Angeles and Mexico City that includes shared political, economic, and social futures. Studies include parallel historical advances that each city made to support burgeoning growth that resulted in mega city status and the concurrent planning issues and innovation it entailed. Students will consider a variety of scholarly disciplines and perspectives.

The course examines U.S. media portrayals of various ethnoracial groups. Considers how gender and sexuality figure into these representations. Emphasis on Latina/o/x, Black, East Asian, Arab, and Indigenous representations, as well as representations of whiteness.

Examines the role that popular culture plays in the reproduction of not only dominant formations of power but also as a means of resistant engagements with and rejections of the mainstream, including fashion, music, film and television, and digital media. Students will engage with theories of power, privilege culture, and identity. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.

This course situates musical artist Bad Bunny's work in relation to key texts in Latinx and Puerto Rican Studies regarding colonialism, race, resistance, gender, sexuality, and popular culture. ***2024 Registration: Registration is limited and requires professor approval. Please reach out to the professor for information on registering in the course.

An exploration of the desert as a root metaphor for deep spiritual experience and place of social, political struggle. Juniors and seniors only. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections. University Core fulfilled: Flag: Engaged Learning.

Students will learn about the structure of state government, persistent and emerging issues facing the state and how politics is practiced in California. An Intrinsic component is the Sacramento Legislative Seminar, three-day trip to the State Capitol for panel discussions with elected officials, legislative staffers, lobbyists, media and others the work alongside state government. This trip takes place in late Feb/early March. Juniors and seniors only. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections. University Core fulfilled: Flag: Engaged Learning.

Focuses on current writings by Chicana feminists and connects this material to African American and Asian American feminist theory. The course traces the development of Chicana feminism and its concern with the interlocking conditions of gender, race, sexuality, and class. University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.

Comparative study of Chicana/o and Native American literary and theoretical engagements with questions of nation, sovereignty, and the decolonial. Engages multiple theoretical perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches shaped by feminist, queer, and critical race studies. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.

A senior seminar required of majors and minors. Students conduct original, independent research and present the work before an audience. Prerequisites: CLST 5001 and CLST 5002. Offered Spring semester.