Women's Studies: Chicana and Latina Studies

Program Overview

This interdisciplinary program equips students with feminist knowledge and research skills. It explores feminist theories and social movements, promoting multicultural competency and activism. The program aims to advance scholarship on gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation, while investigating the experiences of women in various social contexts.

Program Outline

Other:

• The program provides students with a wide array of skills and knowledge, including:
• knowledge of feminist theories and methodologies
• development of critical research skills
• knowledge of the history of feminist and other social movements
• multicultural competency
• career related skills
• feminist approaches to all possible areas of scholarly investigation
• the inextricably interconnected processes by which the social formations of gender, race, class, sexuality and nation are constructed, in the past and the present
• feminist and related social movements
• the constitution of women's lives in diverse social contexts
• and the analysis of diverse feminisms