A degree in Latin American and Latino studies (LALS) and sociology trains students to be critical and analytical thinkers, to be active, engaged global citizens, and to be skilled strategic activists in making the world a more just place for all. A combined LALS and sociology B.A. prepares students to learn from and work with people from a variety of cultures and perspectives, to understand the complexity of current and past societies and social moments, to discover how political, economic, and cultural aspects inform the social, and to use skills from many disciplines and fields.

Sociology is the study of social interactions among individuals and social groups. More specifically, sociologists examine cultural, ideological, economic, and political structures and the processes whereby social institutions are created, maintained, and transformed. The combined B.A. in LALS and sociology allows students to focus their study of sociological contexts and processes within Latinx and Latin American communities.

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LALS Program Learning Outcomes:

✔ Critical Thinking. Ability to analyze from a transnational/transborder/translocal perspective—to see the interconnections between Latin American and Latino issues, people, ideas, problems and solutions. This includes key skills, such as understanding sources, comparing arguments, analysis, and historical perspective.

✔ Research Methods. Working knowledge of social scientific and/or humanistic approaches to LALS relevant topics. This includes acquiring qualitative and quantitative skills, gathering or obtaining research data, finding/using primary sources, and other research methods.

✔ Communication. Key communication skills, including written, oral presentation, and digital, including an understanding of media sources and ability to apply media literacy to cross-cultural analysis.

✔ Lifelong Learning Skills. Acquisition of practical hands-on skills in community engagement, cross-cultural fluency, familiarity with Latin America, and familiarity with Latino experience acquired through experiential learning while working with community and civic organizations.

Sociology Program Learning Outcomes:

✔ Demonstrate critical thinking and critical citizenship skills intended to promote social justice through the ability to analyze and evaluate social, political, and/or cultural arguments.

✔ Demonstrate sociological understandings of phenomena, for example, how individual biographies are shaped by social structures, social institutions, cultural practices, and multiple axes of difference and/or inequality.

✔ Formulate effective and convincing written and/or oral arguments.

✔ Demonstrate an understanding of, and the ability to use, several of the major classical and/or contemporary perspectives in social theory.

✔ Demonstrate an understanding of several of the major social science research methodologies.

✔ Demonstrate knowledge of some of the key substantive areas within the field of sociology.