Comparative Mexican American Studies, BA

Major Courses Required:

• CMAS 1301 - Introduction to Mexican American Studies 3 hrs
• ENGL 2370 - Survey of Mexican American Literature 3 hrs
• CMAS 2310 - Comparative Ethnic Studies 3 hrs
• ARTS 3361 - Mexican American Visual Art 3 hrs
• CMAS 3310 - Voices of Women of Color 3 hrs
• HIST 3354 - Mexican American Cultural History (Mexican/Latin American/Borderlands) 3 hrs
• CMAS 4310 - Borderlands and the Black Atlantic 3 hrs
• CMAS 4320 - Women, Gender and Migration 3 hrs
• CMAS Elective 3 hrs
• CMAS 5310 - Ethnographic Methods Capstone 3 hrs

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  *Students choose two additional upper-division courses (6 credit hours) from the list of approved electives below:

• ARTS 5318 - Afrika: The 3rd Root of Mexico 3 hrs
• MUSI 3338 - Exploring Vernacular Musics of Mexico and the Americas 3 hrs
• ENGL 3368 - Literature of the Southwest 3 hrs
• SPAN 3373 - Spanish in the United States 3 hrs
• SPAN 3383 - Mexican American Prose and Poetry 3 hrs
• HIST 4322 - Spanish Borderlands in North America 3 hrs
• PHIL 4348 - Social Justice 3 hrs
• THSA 3362 - Mexican Americans: Their Spiritual Foundation (HC) 3 hrs
• POLS 4360 - Latino Politics and the Law 3 hrs
• POLS 4361 - Latin American Politics 3 hrs
• PSYC 4310 - Latino Psychology (in English) 3 hrs
• SOCI 4315 - Class Race and Gender 3 hrs
• SOCI 4341 - Social Movements and Revolution 3 hrs
• SOWK 4380 - Selected Topics in Social Work 3 hrs

Required General Education Courses

*Subsitutions can be made with the consent of the CMAS Program Head

• CMAS 1301 - Introduction to Mexican American Studies 3 hrs
• ENGL 2370 - Survey of Mexican American Literature 3 hrs
• SPAN 1411 - Elementary Spanish I 4 hrs or
• SPAN 2311 - Intermediate Spanish I 3 hrs
• SPAN 1412 - Elementary Spanish II 4 hrs or
• SPAN 2312 - Intermediate Spanish II 3 hrs
• ARTS 1361 - Art Appreciation 3 hrs or
• COMM 2310 - Introduction to Film 3 hrs
• BIOL 1410 - Environmental Science 4 hrs or
• BIOL 1400 - Introduction to Life Sciences 4 hrs
• MATH 1301 - Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Quantitative Reasoning 3 hrs or
• MATH 1304 - College Algebra 3 hrs
• HIST 1302 - United States Since 1865 3 hrs or
• HIST 1301 - United States to 1865 3 hrs
• THSA 1300 - The Catholic Imagination 3 hrs or
• THSA 1310 - Introduction to Spirituality and Providence 3 hrs
• PSYC 1305 - Introduction to Psychology 3 hrs or
• SOCI 1301 - Introduction to Sociology 3 hrs

Suggested Sequence of Courses:

Note(s):

The following components are required in all degrees:
General education, major, minor, and validation of completion of:

• overall semester hours - 120
• institutional semester hours - 45
• overall advanced hours - 36
• institutional advanced hours - 24

Foreign language requirement:
SPAN 1411 , SPAN 1412  

Acceptable minor fields:
Any approved OLLU minor