CHILT-MIN - Chicana/o - Latina/o Studies (Minor)

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 minor 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 minor.

Program Learning Outcomes:

The Program in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies expects that undergraduate minors concluding their course of study will be able to:

• Mobilize comparative frameworks for analyzing how race and ethnicity develop historically, cross-culturally, and transnationally

• Understand, interpret, and utilize trans- and interdisciplinary theories and methods in the study of race and ethnicity

• Critically engage with primary and secondary sources and use both types of evidence in research and argumentation

• Effectively communicate data, research, and arguments to diverse audiences

• Apply a core inventory of theories, methods, and concepts to local and global contexts

• Build on histories of activism and struggle that led to the creation of the field of Chicanx-Latinx Studies through community-based learning and engaged scholarship