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Bachelor
of Arts Degree in Mexican American Studies
The Bachelor of Arts in Mexican American Studies is an interdisciplinary
program integrating Mexican American studies with a specific liberal arts
discipline. Majors are required to complete 39 semester credit hours from
a prescribed program of study that must include 18 semester credit hours
from one of six options: communities, families, and children; history;
literary and cultural studies, political science; sociology; or Spanish.
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The minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree,
including the Core Curriculum requirements, is 120.
All candidates for this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements
and the degree requirements, which are listed below.
Core Curriculum requirements:
Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree in Mexican American Studies
must fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner
as other students. The courses listed in the table below satisfy both
degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements; however, if these
courses are taken to satisfy both requirements, then students will need
to take additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester
credit hours required for this degree. For a complete listing of courses
that satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements see pages 9-13 of this catalog.
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Degree Requirements
A. 21 semester credit hours of Mexican American studies:
1. 18 required semester credit hours:
BBL 2003 Language, Culture, and Society
or
BBL 3133 Language Development in Bilinguals
BBL 2013 Introduction to Chicano(a) Studies
BBL 2023 Latino Cultural Expressions
BBL 3033 The Mexican American in the Southwest
or
HIS 3443 Latinos in the United
States
BBL 4083 Research Seminar in Mexican American
Studies
SPN 3493 Mexican American Literature
or
ENG 4613 Topics in Mexican American
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2. 3 semester credit hours selected from the following:
BBL 3043 Psychosocial Processes in Bicultural-Bilingual
Environments
POL 3093 Mexican American Politics
(required for political science option)
SOC 3403 Mexican American Stratification
(required for sociology option)
SOC 3433 Mexican Immigration
in U.S. Society (recommended for communities, families, and children
option)
B. 18 semester credit hours of required courses completed in one of the
following options:
Option in Communities, Families, and Children
BBL 3053 Foundations of Bilingual Studies
BBL 4033 Assessment, Learning, and Motivation
in Bicultural-Bilingual Contexts
ESL 3023 Second Language Teaching and Learning
EC-4
SOC 3413 Mexican American Family
SOC 3503 Sociology of Education
SOC 3513 Children and Society
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Option in History
a. 6 required semester credit hours:
HIS 2003 Historical Methods
HIS 4973 Seminar in History
b. 6 semester credit hours selected from the following:
HIS 3083 History of the American
West
HIS 3153 Development of American
Urban Society
HIS 3163 The Stranger in America
HIS 3463 History of Religion
in the United States
c. 6 semester credit hours selected from the following:
HIS 3063 The Spanish Borderlands,
1521-1821
HIS 3073 The Mexican Borderlands/The
American Southwest
HIS 3293 Imperial Spain
HIS 3303 History of Mexico Top
Option in Literary and Cultural Studies
a. 3 semester credit hours in methods. Note: This requirement must be
completed before continuing with any other option requirements.
ENG 2213 Literary Criticism
and Analysis
b. 3 semester credit hours from the following:
ENG 2383 Multiethnic Literatures
of the United States
ENG 2423 Literature of Texas
and the Southwest
ENG 3113 Studies in Individual
Authors
ENG 4973 Seminar for English
Majors
c. 3 semester credit hours from the following:
COM 4413 Topics in Speech
Communication [When taught by a MAS affiliate or when focus is on Chicano/
Latino content.]
COM 4433 Topics in Electronic
Media [When taught by a MAS affiliate or when focus is on Chicano/Latino
content.]
AHC 3423 Pre-Columbian Art and
Architecture of Mesoamerica
AHC 4333 Topics in Art History
and Criticism [When taught by a MAS affiliate or when focus is on Chicano/
Latino content.] Top
d. 3 semester credit hours:
ENG 4613 Topics in Mexican American
Literature
e. 3 semester credit hours from the following:
AMS 3043 Topics in Ethnic American
Cultures [When taught by a MAS affiliate or when focus is on Chicano/
Latino content.]
BBL 3023 Mexican American Culture
f. 3 semester credit hours:
ENG 4953 Special Studies in
English
Option in Political Science
a. 6 required semester credit hours:
POL 2703 Scope and Methods in
Political Science
POL 3083 Ethnic Politics in
the United States
b. 3 semester credit hours selected from the following:
POL 2503 Introduction to Political
Theory
POL 2513 Public Administration
and Public Policy
POL 2533 Introduction to Political
Science
POL 2603 International Politics
POL 2623 Law and Society
POL 2633 Comparative Politics
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c. 9 semester credit hours of upper-division political science courses,
as follows:
3 semester credit hours of political theory
3 semester credit hours of comparative politics or international relations
3 semester credit hours of public administration or public law
Option in Sociology
a. 12 required semester credit hours:
SOC 1013 Introduction to the
Study of Society
SOC 3043 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 3313 Conceptualization and
Measurement in Sociology
SOC 3343 Classical Sociological
Theory
or
SOC 3353 Contemporary Sociological
Theory
. 6 semester credit hours selected from the following:
SOC 3013 Social Stratification
SOC 3033 Population Dynamics
SOC 3073 Migration Dynamics
SOC 3283 Poverty
SOC 3293 Gender Roles
SOC 3413 Mexican American Family
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Option in Spanish
a. 18 required semester credit hours:
SPN 3013 Spanish Phonetics and
Pronunciation
or
SPN 3113 Linguistic Structures
of Spanish
SPN 3043 Advanced Reading
SPN 3063 Grammar and Composition
or
SPN 4103 Composition Workshop
SPN 3463 Latin American Literature
to Modernism
or
SPN 3473 Latin American Literature
since Modernism
SPN 3623 Latin American Culture
and Civilization
or
SPN 3663 Contemporary Latin
America
or
SPN 3673 Hispanic Cultural Systems
SPN 4123 The Spanish of the
Southwest
C. 39 semester credit hours of electives Top
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