M.A / PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Chicana and Chicano Studies

USA

What will I learn?

The Chicana and Chicano Studies M.A./Ph.D program engages students in the interdisciplinary study of Chicana and Chicano history, culture, and politics. Our students explore Chicana and Chicano experiences in their most broad, comprehensive sense, informed by several philosophical and theoretical schools, historical and political scholarship, literary and religious traditions, artistic movements, mass media, and video and film. In partnership with affiliated faculty in Sociology, History, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, Religious Studies, Education, Black Studies, English, Theater and Dance, Film and Media Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese, our department trains scholars as interdisciplinary researchers equipped to work with a broad range of perspectives, approaches, and methodologies. The program benefits from the university’s Chicano Studies Institute (CSI), the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive (CEMA), and Collection Tloque Nahuaque, a library collection specializing in Chicana and Chicano and Latina and Latino Studies. The M.A./Ph.D in Chicana and Chicano Studies challenges students to understand social justice issues by linking theory, teaching, and scholarship in the academy and larger community.

The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies graduate curriculum implements interdisciplinary study under the understanding that all social phenomena are produced by a complex interplay of three factors: 1) historical forces and developments, 2) social structures and processes, and 3) cultural production. The interrelationship of these three factors produces the outcomes and experiences that are of central interest in Chicana and Chicano Studies. The three subfields of the graduate program thus correspond to these three areas and represent an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates understanding from all three areas - historical, social/political, and cultural. In this sense, the three subfields are a grounding representation of the interdisciplinary mission of the department’s graduate program.

Which department am I in?

College of Letters and Science

Study options

Full Time (A total of 52.0 units are required for the M.A/Ph.D. program)

Tuition fees
$15,102.00 (12,62,498) per year
Start date

Expected September 2024

Venue

College of Letters and Science

2217 Cheadle Hall, MC 2080,

University of California, Santa Barbara,

SANTA BARBARA,

California,

93106, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

To be considered for admission, a student must show a strong aptitude for scholarly work and demonstrate intellectual maturity. Students admitted to the graduate program would normally have completed an undergraduate major in Chicana and Chicano Studies or a closely related discipline.

TOEFL scores 550 Paper-Based Test (PBT), 80 Internet-Based Test (IBT) or IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Overall Band score of 7 or higher (if applicable).

Applications are accepted for Fall Quarter admission only. The deadline for financial support and admission is December 15.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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