Information about the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies

Office

Location: King Hall C4069
Phone: (323) 343-2190
Email: chicano@calstatela.edu
Website: Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies
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Chair

Name: Anita Revilla
Email: arevill2@calstatela.edu
Phone: (323) 343-2190

Overview

The Department of Chicana(o) & Latina(o) Studies (CLS) is an interdisciplinary field of study that takes a critical approach to understand social (in)justice, power relations, community, and global dynamics. Students are trained intensively to hone critical thinking, writing, analysis, and speaking skills-all of which our students utilize in their future careers and/or graduate school endeavors. 

The Faculty

Professors: Dolores Delgado Bernal, Anita Tijerina Revilla (Chair), Valerie Talavera-Bustillos.
Associate Professors: José Anguiano 
Assistant Professors: Rafael Solorzano, Sandra Gutierrez de Jesus, Alejandro Covarrubias

Programs

• Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies, B.A.

• Minor in Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies
• Minor in Mesoamerican Studies

• Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies, M.A.

• Mexican American Studies Credential Program

Courses

• CLS 5010 - Seminar: Theoretical Frameworks in Chicanx and Latinx Studies
• CLS 5030 - Seminar: Community-Engaged Research Methods
• CLS 5050 - Seminar: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the field of Chicanx & Latinx Studies
• CLS 5100 - Teaching Seminar: Race, Gender, & Queer Pedagogies
• CLS 5110 - Seminar: Praxis in Chicana/o/x & Latina/o/x Communities
• CLS 5960 - Comprehensive Examination
• CLS 5980 - Graduate Directed Study
• CLS 5990 - Thesis
• CLS 5995 - Project

• CLS 1200 - Introduction to Chicanx and Latinx U.S. History
• CLS 1300 - The Constitution, Law, & Chicanx/Latinx Communities
• CLS 1500 - Ethnic Studies, Resistance & Solidarity
• CLS 1600 - Cultural and Artistic Expressions in the Americas
• CLS 2010 - Mexican Literature Sin Fronteras
• CLS 2050 - Chicanx/Latinx in Film and Media
• CLS 2060 - Chicanx/Latinx, Social Media & Digital Communities
• CLS 2080 - Visual Sovereignties: Indigenous Peoples in Film and Media (also listed as AIIS 2080)
• CLS 2100 - Introduction to Chicanx & Latinx Political and Social Movements
• CLS 2200 - Chicanas & Latinas in Contemporary US Society (also listed as WGSS 2200)
• CLS 2300 - Families and Kinships in the Americas
• CLS 2400 - Current Issues in American Indian and Indigenous Communities (also listed as AIIS 2400)
• CLS 2500 - Contemporary Chicana/o/x Art
• CLS 2550 - Diverse Latin American Populations in Southern California (also listed as LAS 2550)
• CLS 2600 - Healing Traditions in Chicana/o/x & Latina/o/x Communities
• CLS 2700 - Lengua, Cultura y Dignidad: Spanish for Chicanas/os and Latinas/os
• CLS 3009 - Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema (also listed as ML 3009)
• CLS 3100 - Introduction to Critical Education: Theory & Praxis
• CLS 3120 - Chicanx/Latinx Parent, Community, & School Partnerships
• CLS 3130 - Diversity, Intersectionality, Major Racial/Ethnic Groups in U.S. Schooling, and Equality of Educational Opportunity and Social Justice (also listed as EDFN 3130)
• CLS 3200 - Pre-Columbian Narratives in Latin American Literature
• CLS 3220 - Race, Gender, and Hybridity in the Americas
• CLS 3300 - Race, Class, & Gender
• CLS 3320 - Global Migrants in Transnational Networks and Economies
• CLS 3400 - Chicanx/Latinx/Indigenous Refusal, Resistance, & Praxis
• CLS 3500 - Introduction to Principles of Research in Chicano Studies
• CLS 3600 - Comparative Analysis of Indigenous Women Experiences in the Americas (also listed as AIIS 3600)
• CLS 3700 - Introduction to Central America (also listed as LAS 3700)
• CLS 3720 - American Indian Families (also listed as CHDV 3720)
• CLS 3750 - Health Disparities in Urban Communities (also listed as CHDV 3750, PH 3750)
• CLS 3770 - Environmental Justice (also listed as PH 3770)
• CLS 3950 - Community Service in Chicano Studies
• CLS 4000 - Indigenous Peoples of Mexico & Central America: Land, History, Culture (also listed as AIIS 4000)
• CLS 4010 - Chicana/o Latina/o Culture and Media
• CLS 4020 - Literatures of Resistance: Chicanx & Latinx Voices
• CLS 4030 - Chicanas/os Latinas/os and La Cultura of Public Spaces
• CLS 4080 - The Central American Experience in the US (also listed as LAS 4080)
• CLS 4100 - Latina/o/x Communities in U.S. Society
• CLS 4110 - Latina/o/x Immigration, History and Politics
• CLS 4170 - Critical Analysis of Inequality and Educational Policy
• CLS 4180 - Public Health Issues in Latina/o Communities
• CLS 4200 - History of the Chicano People in California
• CLS 4240 - Exploring Afro-Latino/a Identities
• CLS 4250 - Chicanas & Latinas: Social Movements in the Americas
• CLS 4255 - Chicana/x and Latina/x Political Participation and Social Movements
• CLS 4260 - The Chicana/o Movement (1960s - 1970s) (also listed as HIST 4600)
• CLS 4270 - Modern Mexico and the Chicano People (also listed as HIST 4670)
• CLS 4280 - Migration, Identity, and Religion (also listed as LAS 4280, RELS 4230)
• CLS 4290 - Chicana Feminisms: History, Theory, Praxis (also listed as WGSS 4290)
• CLS 4300 - Community-Engaged Research in Chicanx and Latinx Communities
• CLS 4320 - Abolitionist Critique of America’s War on Drugs
• CLS 4400 - Joteria Expressions in Las Americas
• CLS 4450 - Indigenous Experiences in Contemporary Mexico and Latin America (also listed as LAS 4450)
• CLS 4490 - Anthropology of Race and Racism (also listed as AAAS 4491, ANTH 4490, LAS 4490)
• CLS 4660 - Colonial Mexico (also listed as HIST 4660)
• CLS 4665 - Modern Mexico (also listed as HIST 4665)
• CLS 4900 - Special Topics
• CLS 4990 - Undergraduate Directed Study