Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies

专业介绍

The Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies major offers a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of Mexican-, Caribbean-, and Latin-American-origin people, cultures, and collectivities in the United States and their transnational dimensions. The Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies major provides students with a broad knowledge base and the intellectual and practical tools to understand the diversity, unity, and complexity of those peoples and cultures as they explore the central questions of this interdisciplinary field.

The Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies curriculum enables students to engage with the history, experience, arts, literature, cultural production, and social lives of Latinx/e communities, developing the students’ capacities for civic and community engagement as well as research, writing, and analytical skills. Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies graduates are equipped to implement and engage diverse perspectives as they pursue careers in such fields as education, social service, communications, publishing, business and finance, law, journalism, agriculture, science and engineering, the arts, construction, the nonprofit sector, government, and the health professions.

Note: The endings “x” and “e” in “Chicanx/e and Latinx/e” represent two gender-neutral ways of referring to people of Latin American descent in the United States.