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The Chicana and Chicano Studies M.A./Ph.D program engages students in the interdisciplinary study of Chicana and Chicano history, culture, and politics. Our students explore Chicana and Chicano experiences in their most broad, comprehensive sense, informed by several philosophical and theoretical schools, historical and political scholarship, literary and religious traditions, artistic movements, mass media, and video and film. In partnership with affiliated faculty in Sociology, History, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, Religious Studies, Education, Black Studies, English, Theater and Dance, Film and Media Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese, our department trains scholars as interdisciplinary researchers equipped to work with a broad range of perspectives, approaches, and methodologies. The program benefits from the university’s Chicano Studies Institute (CSI), the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive (CEMA), and Collection Tloque Nahuaque, a library collection specializing in Chicana and Chicano and Latina and Latino Studies. The M.A./Ph.D in Chicana and Chicano Studies challenges students to understand social justice issues by linking theory, teaching, and scholarship in the academy and larger community.

The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies graduate curriculum implements interdisciplinary study under the understanding that all social phenomena are produced by a complex interplay of three factors: 1) historical forces and developments, 2) social structures and processes, and 3) cultural production. The interrelationship of these three factors produces the outcomes and experiences that are of central interest in Chicana and Chicano Studies. The three subfields of the graduate program thus correspond to these three areas and represent an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates understanding from all three areas - historical, social/political, and cultural. In this sense, the three subfields are a grounding representation of the interdisciplinary mission of the department’s graduate program.