Learning Outcomes

The Program in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies expects that undergraduate majors 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