BA Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies/MAS Transborder Studies
Overview
In this dynamic, comprehensive program, you'll learn from faculty who specialize in literature, queer studies, Chicana feminist theory, communication and media studies, digital humanities and media production to gain a deeper understanding of cultural representations. You will gain knowledge and insight into transborder, transnational, and border issues locally, nationally and internationally.
Eligibility
Fast facts
4+1/accelerated programs save time since a bachelor’s and master’s degree can be obtained in as little as 5 years*
4+1/accelerated programs save students money since students are saving time by sharing credits between the undergraduate and graduate program (less time = less tuition paid)
Timeline
Application Process deadlines:
- When to meet with undergraduate advisor: fall semester of junior year
- Who assists with the pre-application (Pre-application refers to the internal verification of eligibility within the school/department.): undergraduate academic advisor
- When to meet with graduate advisor: fall semester of junior year (undergraduate and graduate advisor are same person)
- When can students enroll in graduate level courses: after acceptance in the program/fall semester of senior year
Shared Classes
Two TCL 400 level electives and two TSS 500 level electives
Undergraduate Level classes
- TCL 410 Race, Medicine, and the Body
- TCL 422 U.S.-Mexico Border Health
- TCL 424 Theory and Practice of Community Development and Health
- TCL 443 Political Ecology of the Border
- TCL 444 The Ethnography of Mexico and the Borderlands
- TCL 447 Gender, Culture, and Development
- TCL 448 Teaching Chicana and Chicano Studies in the Schools
- TCL 464 Latina/o Literature
- TCL 471 Latinos in Hollywood
- TCL 484 Internship
- TCL 485 Chicana and Latina Writers
- TCL 490 Transborder Queer Performativity
- TCL 494 Special Topics (all topics)
- TCL 498 Pro-Seminar
- TCL 499 Individualized Instruction
Graduate Level classes
- TSS 500 Research Methods
- TSS 501 A Deep History of the United States/Mexico Borderlands I
- TSS 502 Foundations of Transborder Studies
- TSS 503 Epistemologies and Transborder Thought
- TSS 504 Theories and Methods for Transborder Research
- TSS 505 Theories and Methods of Migration, Health & Applied Social Policy in a Transborder Context
- TSS 506 Theory and Methods of Transborder Media and Expressive Culture
- TSS 507 Theory and Methods of Transborder Cultural Acquisition, Language Development, and Learning
- TSS 590 Reading and Conference
- TSS 591 Seminar
- TSS 594 Conference and Workshop
- TSS 598 Special Topics (all topics)
Contact
Undergraduate and Graduate contact person: Patricia Corona
Email: [email protected]
Phone number: (480) 965-9426