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1 - Define basic Chicana/o Studies concepts and themes within the context of Ethnic Studies, necessary to the study of the discipline. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of histories of colonization, segregation, slavery, genocide, racialization, criminalization, persecution, and other forms of systematic dehumanization as experienced by Chicanas/os and Analyze and articulate concepts such as race and racism, racialization, ethnicity, equity, ethno-centrism, eurocentrism, white supremacy, self-determination, liberation, decolonization, sovereignty, imperialism, settler colonialism, and anti-racism as analyzed in any one or more of the following: Latina and Latino American Studies.

2 - Recognize the contributions of scholarship of to the formation of Chicana/o Studies and its contribution to Ethnic Studies Critically analyze the intersection of race and racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability, tribal citizenship, sovereignty, language, and/or age in Latina and Latino American communities.

3 - Identify and discuss past and present social and political movements (i.e., education, labor, land) and the development of Chicana/o Studies scholarship, art and organization. Critically analyze issues of space and place fundamental to the foundation of Chicana/o Studies, including indigeneity, migration, diaspora, displacement, and nation, as endured by Chicanas/os.

4 - Critically analyze important works (i.e., El Plan de Santa Barbara and El Plan de Aztlan) and their significance to the implementation of Chicana/o Studies in secondary and higher education and its impact on theories in Chicana/o Studies and Ethnic Studies. Apply theory and knowledge produced by Latina and Latino American communities to describe the critical events, histories, cultures, intellectual traditions, contributions, lived-experience sand social struggles of those groups with a particular emphasis on agency and group-affirmation.

5 - Determine the relationship between scholarship and activism. Recognize education in general, and Chicana/o Studies in particular, as a form of agency and resistance, particularly in the context of majority-minority relations and asymmetrical power relations, and the formation of group self-identity and Apply theory and knowledge produced by Latina and Latino American communities to describe the critical events, histories, cultures, intellectual traditions, contributions, lived-experiences and social struggles of those groups with a particular emphasis on agency and group-affirmation.

6 - Compare and contrast Chicana/o Studies theory and discourse with similar fields of study (Ethnic Studies), including theories of racism and racialization as linked to social structures and institutional processes, and their intersections and constitutive relations with class, political economy, gender and sexuality, as they affect Chicanas/os.

7 - Critically analyze the intersection of race and racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability, tribal citizenship, sovereignty, language, language, (Chicana/o) Latina and Latino American communities in order to Identify and discuss the works of leading Chicana feminist scholars and their significance to the study of Chicanas/os.

8 - Analyze the significance and purpose of Chicana/o Studies in an increasingly global, multicultural society through critiques of globalized capitalism, neoliberal free-market ideology, and global labor and social movements responding to effects of neo-colonialism and global racism such as educational inequities, labor exploitation, criminalization/incarceration.