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 seven options: anthropology; communities, families, and children; history; literary and cultural studies; political science; sociology; or Spanish.
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 in this catalog.
Core Curriculum Requirements |
Courses that Satisfy Core Curriculum
and Degree Requirements |
Rhetoric (6 semester credit hours) |
All students must take the following six hours to meet this core requirement: |
Domain I: Mathematics and Science |
Mathematics (3 semester credit hours) |
Domain II: Society and Culture |
United States History and Diversity (6 semester
credit hours) |
| Domain III: Literature and the Arts | Literature (3 semester credit hours) |
Domain IV: World Society and Issues |
(3 semester credit hours) |
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 Literature
2. 3 semester credit hours selected from the following:
BBL 3023 Mexican American Culture (required for anthropology option)
BBL 3043 Psychosocial Processes in Bicultural-Bilingual Environments
BBL 4953 Special Studies in Bilingual and Bicultural Studies (anthropology
option students may substitute this course for BBL 3023 when topic is on Mexican
Americans and cultural anthropology)
POL 3093 Mexican American Politics (required for political science option)
SOC 3403 Mexican American Stratification (required for sociology option)
SOC 3433 Mexican Immigration and 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 Anthropology
a. 9 semester credit hours of courses selected from the following:
ANT 2033 Introduction to Physical Anthropology
ANT 2043 Introduction to Archaeology
ANT 2053 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANT 2063 Language, Thought, and
Culture
b. 9 additional upper-division semester credit hours:
AHC 3423 Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica
ANT 3363 Indians
of Mesoamerica
ANT 4123 Archaeology of the American Southwest
Option in Communities, Families, and Children
BBL 3053 Foundations of Bilingual Studies
BBL 4033 Assessment, Learning, and
Motivation in Bicultural-Bilingual Classrooms
ESL 3023 Second Language Teaching
and Learning in EC–4
SOC 3413 Mexican American Family
SOC 3503 Sociology of Education
SOC 3513 Children and Society
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 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
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 Multi-Ethnic 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:
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.]
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/Latinocontent.]
d. 3 semester credit hours:
ENG 4613 Topics in Mexican American Literature
e. 3 semester credit hours:
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
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
or
SOC 3373 Qualitative Research Methods
SOC 3343 Classical Sociological Theory
or
SOC 3353 Contemporary Sociological Theory
b. 6 semester credit hours selected from the following:
SOC 3013 Social Stratification
SOC 3033 Population Dynamics
SOC 3073 Migration Dynamics
SOC 3263 Latinas in the U.S. Society
SOC 3283 Poverty
SOC 3293 Gender Roles
SOC 3413 Mexican American Family|
SOC 3433 Mexican Immigration and U.S. Society
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
SPN 3463 Latin American Literature to Modernism
or
SPN 3473 Latin American Literature since Modernism
SPN 3623 Latin American Culture
and Civilization
SPN 4123 The Spanish of the Southwest
C. 39 semester credit hours of electives
2004-2006
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