CHILT-BA - Chicana/o - Latina/o Studies (BA)

The Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) explores how race and ethnicity shape global history, undergird our social systems, and touch every aspect of our lives. Our courses empower students with the tools to assess and build inclusivity, equity, diversity, accessibility, and justice. CCSRE programs—encompassing Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, and Native American Studies—take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how gender, sexuality, ability, capital, technology, education, politics, and the environment structure our bodies, experiences, and communities. Students have the option to focus on particular racial and ethnic groups and on issues that move across peoples and places. 

The interdisciplinary nature of the academic programs empowers students to enroll in a wide variety of courses. CCSRE listings can be found in Anthropology, Art and Art History, Education, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theater and Performance Studies, and more. Majors and minors in CCSRE engage with various perspectives and methodologies and grapple with pivotal themes including decolonization, indigeneity, intersectionality, movement-building, resistance, solidarity, and wellness. By analyzing interlocking structures of identity and difference, CCSRE students interrogate the role of power, reimagine the world, and reclaim the future.

The Program in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies offers students opportunities to examine borders that constitute the Americas as a political and cultural formation. The major attends to histories and contemporary realities of migration, colonialism, imperialism, and diaspora that link the United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Our faculty use Stanford’s location in the SF-Oakland-San José-Northern California area to study the “informatics of power” in Silicon Valley, California, the Southwest, the U.S., and the Americas.

Visit the Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies website for more information about the program and how to declare the major.