Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies Program

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Faculty Director's Welcome

*Jonathan Rosa, Director of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies*

Welcome to the Program in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Stanford University. As part of the Center for Comparative Studies of Race & Ethnicity, the program is an interdisciplinary unit offering both majors and minors the opportunity to explore the vast complexity of Chicanx and Latinx life, including history, culture, migration, education, and politics.

Established in 1997, the Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies program honors longstanding political and intellectual struggles to create rigorous, interdisciplinary, and community-engaged learning opportunities. Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies focuses on U.S.-based and broader diasporic experiences connected to interrelated histories and contemporary realities of transnational migration from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Students who major or minor in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies select from courses in the humanities, social sciences, and courses offered by affiliated faculty in the Graduate School of Education.

Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies is a major, or minor, for Stanford students seeking an intellectually rigorous and civically engaged course of study. Our program allows students to take classes across a variety of disciplines, while also emphasizing how scholarship in Chicanx and Latinx Studies has contributed innovative transdisciplinary insights into phenomena including citizenship, borders, immigration, labor, carcerality, colonialisms, language, expressive practice, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social movements. The program promotes the development of affirming professional relationships among students, staff, and faculty that will support students intellectually and administratively as they pursue their academic goals.

Jonathan Rosa

Director of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies
Associate Professor of Education
Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics, of Anthropology, and of Comparative Literature

Margaret Marietta Ramirez

Associate Director of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

Upcoming Events

January

Jennifer Alpert, “Finding Belonging at Home: Cinematic Utopias of Jewish Integration in Argentina,” in conversation with Eitan Kensky

Date

Tue January 6th 2026 , 12:00pm - 1:30pm PST

February

Angela Garcia, “The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos,” in conversation with Paula Moya

Date

Tue February 10th 2026 , 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST

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Degree Requirements

Major Requirements

The program in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies offers students opportunities to critically examine borders that constitute the Americas as a political and cultural formation. The major attends to histories and contemporary realities of migration, colonialism, imperialism, and diaspora that link the United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

To receive a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, students must complete 60 units.

Required courses:

1 Introductory course

CSRE100: Intro to Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity

1 Major Core Course

CHILATST100: Introduction to Latinx Studies

2 Comparative Core courses offering a foundation in race studies

CSRE101A: Indigeneity and Colonialism
CSRE101B: Institutions and Inequities
CSRE101C: Resistance and Liberation

1 Methodology course in a discipline of your choosing

1 Community-Engaged Learning course or preapproved project

1 Capstone course

CSRE 200X - CSRE Senior Seminar
- CSRE majors draw upon their interdisciplinary expertise and training in race studies to design and complete a public-facing research project or research paper.
or CSRE 201X, 201Y & 201Z - CSRE Honors Seminar
- The Honors Thesis Seminar is a year-long research- and writing-intensive sequence designed to support students as they apply their skills, knowledge, and political commitments to the investigation of a focused research question.

Electives:

At least 6 additional courses in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies (30 units minimum)
Students may apply 5 units of sustained study of the Spanish language towards their Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies degree

To find a more detailed overview of this major please visit our Bulletin Page.

If you are ready to declare, please visit the How to Declare Page

Minor Requirements

To minor in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, students are required to complete 30 units: