Chicana/o - Latina/o Studies
The Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies (CLS) offers a curriculum with a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary curriculum broadly relating to people of Latin American descent within the hemisphere, in particular within the United States and the wide diaspora. Chicana/o - Latina/o studies is the umbrella name for distinct and important academic inquiries which began to converge in the last twenty years. The discipline emerged as a product of educational and social movements of the 1960s. These movements led to the initial creation of the program at The Claremont Colleges in 1969, making the program the second-oldest in the nation. More recently, Latina/o studies has emerged as an field of inquiry relating to Latin Americans in the hemisphere, transcending area studies and ethnic studies.
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