Black and Latino Studies Major

All BLS majors and minors must complete this capstone course.  It will be organized using three key components: (1) Academic coursework, (2) Fieldwork, and (3) Public Knowledge Research Projects.  The capstone course themes will be determined by the instructor, such as by offering specialized focus on (1) race, history, culture or, (2) racial and social justice, public policy, and human rights.  Upon completion students will have developed advanced skills in research methods, established fieldwork experience, and a public research project.

Majors must take two interdisciplinary Core Elective courses, which will establish experience with the foundational methods and themes that inform Black, Latino, and Latinx Studies.

Take one of the following Core Electives in interdisciplinary, intersectional thinking about gender, race, and sexuality:

LTS 3012 Latinas: A Social and Cultural Survey
BLS 3024 Women of Color

Take one of the following interdisciplinary Core Electives to develop complex thinking about empire and racial justice:

LTS 3100 Latino Communities in the U.S.
BLS 3012 Black Revolution and Political Thinking in the U.S.
BLS 3019 / LTS 3019 Afrolatinidades
BLS 3050 / LTS 3050 Race and Global Inequity

The Elective Courses offered to support the major manifest the interdisciplinary practices that define Black, Latinx Studies, and AfroLatinx Studies.  They represent a distribution of courses that support well-rounded knowledge within Black, Caribbean, and Latinx areas of interest.