MAS Courses

Bachelor's in Mexican American Studies (Total of: 39 hours)

Required Core Hours: 24hrs

• Bachelor’s in Mexican American Studies (Total of: 39 Hours)
• Required Core Hours: 24hrs
• MCLL 2301: Mexican American Lang, Lit, and Culture
• 3 hours of Mexican American Arts: Music, Dance, Art, MCLL, or KIN
• ANTH 3375: Mexican American Folklore
• HIST 3373: Mexican American Heritage
• ENG 4316: Mexican American Literature
• SOC 4323: Mexican American People

SPAN 2307 & 2308: Intermediate Spanish I & II

(students have option of testing out; CLEP, AP, WebCape)

MAS Electives

15 Hours of MAS electives for Bachelor’s degree

Art:

• ART 3351: Mesoamerican Art
• ART 3357: Vice regal Art and Architecture of Mexico, the U.S. Southwest,
• Caribbean
• ART 4350: Modern Art of Mexico 1785-1940
• ART 4352: Modern Art of Mexico 1940 to the present
• ART 4358: Latino Art History
• ART 4359: Topics in Art History

Dance:

• DANC 2249, 3249, 4249: Mexican Dance Primary Technique
• DANC 2250, 3250, 4250: Mexican Dance Secondary Technique
• DANC 2349: Folklorico I
• DANC 3349: Folklorico II

English:

• ENG 2308: Sp. Top-Intro Mex Am
• ENG 3320: Top: Gloria Anzaldua
• ENG 3321: Language and Culture
• (depends on instructor/content. Special permission needed)
• ENG 3325: Children/Adolescent Literature
• (depends on instructor/content. Special permission needed)
• ENG 4316 : Mexican-American Literature
• ENG 4320: Topics in Border Studies
• ENG 4331: Introduction to Border Language
• ENG 4340: Special Topics Creative Writing Mexican American & Gender
• Studies

Interdisciplinary:

• INTS 4300: Discovery of RGV

Mexican-American Studies:

• MAS 2301: Introduction to Mexican American Studies
• MAS 4300: Learning & Reflective Service
• (May be taken for up to six hours credit, Special Permission
• Required)
• MAS 4392: Special Topics in MAS

Women's Studies:

• WMST 3308: Female Identity in Women’s Literature of the South &
• Southwest

History:

• HIST 3330: Gen Survey History of Texas
• HIST 3331: Mexico Pre-conquest to Present
• HIST 3373: Mexican-American Heritage
• HIST 3333: Colonial Mexico
• HIST 3375: Special Topics: Chicana History
• HIST 4322: Spanish Southwest to 1821
• HIST 4325: The American Southwest after 1821
• HIST 4345: Mexico 1st Cent as Rep.
• HIST 4353: History of Mexican Culture
• HIST 4354: Contemporary Mexico 1910-Pres
• HIST 4357: History of Mexican Cinema
• HIST 4361: Mexican American Civil Rights
• HIST 4363: U.S. – Latin American Relations
• HIST 4398: Special Topics Mexican Revolution
• HIST 4398: Special Topics in Latin American History: U.S.-Mexican
• Borderlands

Inter-American Studies:

• LAMS 2301: Intro. to Inter-American Studies
• Modern and Classical Languages and Literature:
• MCLL 2301: Mexican American Language, Literature, and Culture
• MCLL 2301: Border Corrido
• MCLL 2301: Borderland Literature

Music:

• MUS 1308: Mexican Folk Music

Philosophy:

• PHIL 2380: Intro to Latin American Philosophy
• PHIL 3379: Chicana and Latin American Feminisms
• PHIL 4391: Sp Top: Liberation Philosophy & Theology

Spanish:

• SPAN 2307: & 2308: Intermediate Spanish I & II
• SPAN 2317: Inter Span for Health I
• SPAN 2318: Inter Span for Health II
• SPAN 3303: Advanced Spanish Composition I
• SPAN 3304: Advanced Spanish Composition II
• SPAN 3310: Masterpc Sp-Am Literature
• SPAN 3311: Masterpc Sp-Am Literature II
• SPAN 3316: Mexican Novel
• SPAN 3340: Intro to Latin American Literature
• SPAN 3343: Spanish Language Media Studies
• SPAN 3345: Intro to Latino Literature
• SPAN 3370: Intro to Hispanic Culture & Translation Composition
• SPAN 3348: Adv Span Comp for Health
• SPAN 4311: Mexican Literature I
• SPAN 4329: Mexico’s Contemporary Literature
• SPAN 4348: Sociolinguistics and Latino Health
• SPAN 4391: Spanish in the US
• SPAN 4392 Spec Top Hisp Literature (When Topic is chican@/Latin@)
• SPAN 4392: Women Writers on the Border
• SPAN 4392: Mestizaje & Transculturation in Latin American & U.S. Latino

Literature

• Bilingual Education:
• EDBE 3322: Found of Bilingual Education
• Anthropology:
• ANTH 3323: Mexican-American Culture
• ANTH 1354: Expressive Culture
• ANTH 3375: Mexican-American Folklore
• ANTH 4350: Mexican-American Folk Medicine
• ANTH 4353: Folklore of the Lower Río Grande Valley
• ANTH 4369: Archeology Mexico & Central America
• ANTH 4385: Discovery of RGV

Criminal Justice:

• CRIJ 2326: Police-Community Relations

Political Science:

• POLS 3363: Latino/a Politics
• POLS 3365: Politics of Immigration
• POLS 3365: Policy Race Immigration & Cit
• POLS 3364: U.S.- Mexico Border Relations
• POLS 4383: Politics of Mexico

Sociology:

• SOCI 4313: American Minorities
• SOCI 4323: The Mexican-American People
• SOCI 4352: Social Inequality
• SOCI 4380: Social Protests and Social Movements

Psychology:

• PSYC 4328: Psychological Issues in the Mex. Am. Community
• PSYC 4383: Sp Prob: Mex Am Adolescence