Social Justice: Chicana/o Studies

Effective: Fall 2025
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

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Program Description

Chicano Studies is an interdisciplinary program of study, focusing on the intersectional analysis of the experiences and point of views of the diverse Chicanx/Latinx community. A degree in Chicano Studies provides students with the comprehension abilities and critical thinking skills related to the community's specific needs. Moreover, this field of study cultivates the skill set necessary to understand and engage with complex social, political, and economic systems often characterized by institutionalized discrimination.


What can I do with this major?

A degree in Chicano Studies can support work in diverse Chicanx/Latinx communities and can lead toward any of the following career pathways, including: Education, Law, Social Work, Immigrant Rights, Civil Rights, Journalism, Public Health, Community and Union Organizing, Non-profit/social justice work, Government, Public Policy, Community Development/Urban Planning, International Relations.


Learning and Career Pathway
  • Social Sciences, Humanities & Education

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= Critical Course = Prerequisite for Other Courses = Prerequisite Required = Required for Major GE = General Education

Semester 1

15 units

ES 1
Introduction to Ethnic Studies

3 units
An introduction to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of race and ethnicity in the United States. The course surveys critical events, histories, cultures, intellectual traditions, and contributions of racial and ethnic communities, emphasizing the lived experiences, social struggles, agency, theory and knowledge produced by Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Americans. The course will also critically analyze the intersection of race and racism with class, gender, and sexuality as applied to the above groups, and further assess the role of resistance, solidarity, racial justice, social justice and liberation as experienced and enacted by Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x/e Americans.
Course Details:
  • Transfers to CSU
    • Terms Offered: Spring, Fall, Summer

    English C1000 Academic Reading and Writing (formerly known as English 1- Critical Reading and Composition)

    4 units
    GE

    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    3 units
    GE

    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    3 units
    GE

    Elective- see a counselor to choose a course that counts for elective units (can be any credit course).

    2 units

    Semester 2

    15-16 units

    Women of Color in the United States: Introduction to Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Choose one)

    3 units

    ES 7
    Women of Color in the United States: Introduction to Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    3 units
    Critical examination of the historical and socio-cultural experiences of African American, Latinx/a, Asian American, Native American, Arab American, and Pacific Islander women through a feminist perspective. The course will study gender and how it intersects with race, ethnicity, nationality, class, sexuality, religion, and other systems of difference and power. The course will consider various issues related to how racism, capitalism, patriarchy, war, sexual violence, and other systems of power intersect to influence the lives of women of color in the United States, as they may relate to work, family, politics, identity, resistance and artistic expression. Students will also be introduced to Women’s Studies and the study of gender and sexuality
    Terms Offered: Spring, Summer
    or

    SOCI 7
    Women of Color in the United States: Introduction to Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    3 units
    Critical examination of the historical and socio-cultural experiences of African American, Latinx/a, Asian American, Native American, Arab American, and Pacific Islander women through a feminist perspective. The course will study gender and how it intersects with race, ethnicity, nationality, class, sexuality, religion, and other systems of difference and power. The course will consider various issues related to how racism, capitalism, patriarchy, war, sexual violence and other systems of power intersect to influence the lives of women of color in the United States, as they may relate to work, family, politics, identity, resistance, and artistic expression. Students will also be introduced to Women’s Studies and the study of gender and sexuality
    Course Details:
  • Transfers to CSU
    • or

    SOCI 6
    Introduction to Gender

    3 units
    A sociological analysis of the social construction of masculinity and femininity through history and cultures. Examines the debates on sex and gender. Analyzes the impact of economic and political change on gender expectations and practices. Focuses macroanalyses of how institutions shape gender and microanalyses of how individuals are socialized and how they “do” and practice gender.
    Terms Offered: Fall, Spring

    United States History from a Chicano Perspective II (Choose one)

    3 units

    ES 53
    United States History from a Chicano Perspective II

    3 units
    A survey course of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Chicana/o experience within the context of U.S. history from the Reconstruction era to the present. Students will critically analyze the struggles of Mexican Americans in the historical development of California and the United States with comparisons to other groups. The course will also include analysis and critique of structural racism, white supremacy and racial violence while also centering movements for civil rights, self-determination, and anti-racism.
    Course Details:
    Terms Offered: Rotating
    or

    HIS 53
    United States History from a Chicano Perspective II

    3 units
    A survey course of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Chicana/o experience within the context of U.S. history from the Reconstruction era to the present. Students will critically analyze the struggles of Mexican Americans in the historical development of California and the United States with comparisons to other groups. The course will also include analysis and critique of structural racism, white supremacy and racial violence while also centering movements for civil rights, self-determination, and anti-racism.
    Course Details:
    Terms Offered: Spring

    Math Course for General Education: see a counselor to choose the appropriate course.

    3-4 units
    GE
    MTH 47 or PSY 5 recommended

    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    3 units
    GE

    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    3 units
    GE

    Semester 3

    15 units

    List A Course #1

    3 units
    Choose one course from List A below that has not already been taken
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    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    3 units
    GE

    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    3 units
    GE

    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    4 units
    GE

    Elective- see a counselor to choose a course that counts for elective units (can be any credit course).

    2 units

    Semester 4

    15 units

    List A Course #2

    3 units
    Choose one course from List A below that has not already been taken
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    List A Course #3

    3 units
    Choose one course from List A below that has not already been taken
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    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    3 units
    GE

    General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.

    3 units
    GE

    Elective- see a counselor to choose a course that counts for elective units (can be any credit course).

    3 units

    List A

    Take 3 courses from at least 2 areas: History, Arts/Humanities, and Social Science (9 units)

    Area 1: History

    United States History from a Chicano Perspective I (Chose one)

    3 units

    ES 52
    United States History from a Chicano Perspective I

    3 units
    A survey of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Chicana/o experience within the context of U.S. history from Mesoamerican origins to the Reconstruction era. Students will critically analyze the struggles of Chicanas/os in the historical development of the United States with comparisons to other groups. Students will also analyze and critique race and racism, colonialism and white supremacy, while also centering movements for sovereignty, self-determination and anti-racism. Major topics include European colonization, Indigenous cultures and slavery, the formation of the American political system, structural racism and segregation, the U.S. War with Mexico, and the American Civil War. This course includes analysis of the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court Rulings, and California State and local government issues related to the rights of Mexican and Mexican Americans.
    Course Details:
    Terms Offered: Rotating
    or

    HIS 52
    United States History from a Chicano Perspective I

    3 units
    A survey of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Chicana/o experience within the context of U.S. history from Mesoamerican origins to the Reconstruction era. Students will critically analyze the struggles of Chicanas/os in the historical development of the United States with comparisons to other groups. Students will also analyze and critique race and racism, colonialism and white supremacy, while also centering movements for sovereignty, self-determination and anti-racism. Major topics include European colonization, Indigenous cultures and slavery, the formation of the American political system, structural racism and segregation, the U.S. War with Mexico, and the American Civil War. This course includes analysis of the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court Rulings, and California State and local government issues related to the rights of Mexican and Mexican Americans.
    Course Details:
    Terms Offered: Spring

    Area 2: Arts and Humanities

    ENGL 22
    Mexican American/Latino Literature of the U.S.

    3 units
    Introduction to literary works in fiction, poetry, drama and the essay which are concerned with the Mexican American/Latino cultural experience. Analysis of literature in the context of the historical growth of Mexican American/Latino identity in the United States in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
    Terms Offered: Fall

    ES 12
    Chicanx and Latinx Expressive Cultures and Resistance

    3 units
    This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x expressive cultures, whose composition spans differences along the lines of citizenship, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, language, and more. Readings and course material will cover Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x representation, identities, and the role of race, gender, nationality, sexuality, and class in creative expression in everyday life and social movements. Key topics include resistance, self-determination, liberation, decolonization, sovereignty, transnationalism, imperialism, colonialism, and racial and social justice. We will explore these main topics through Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x cultural expressions.
    Course Details:
  • Transfers to UC

    • Area 3: Social Science

    ES 4
    Intro to Latinx Studies

    3 units
    A pan-Latina/o, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach to major themes and issues related to the Latinx community in the U.S., including: race and racism, indigenous culture, colonialism, war, genocide, migration, transnationalism, citizenship, identity, language, gender, family, labor, neoliberalism, education, expression, and resistance. A critical examination of modern Latin American history and indigenous and African cultures connected to the Latinx diaspora, including Chicana/o, Mexican, Central American, South American, and Caribbean-American communities in the U.S. ES 2 is no longer being offered
    Course Details:
    Total Units: 60-61 units
    This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.