Borders and Languages Major

REQUIREMENTS FOR A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE WITH A MAJOR IN BORDERS AND LANGUAGES:

Liberal Arts Core - Credits: 33

See Liberal Arts Core for course choices

Communication	CO1/CO2	COMP 150 ^a and any one approved
	or	CO2^acourse (Credits: 6)
	CO2/CO3	Any one approved CO2^a course and any one approved
		CO3^acourse (Credits: 6)

Mathematics	MA1	MATH 105 (Credits: 3)

Arts & Humanities	AH	Any one approved AH course (Credits: 3)

Arts & Humanities	AH	One additional approved AH course (Credits: 3)

History	HI	Any one approved HI course (Credits: 3)

Social & Behavioral Sciences	SS	Any one approved SS course (Credits: 3)

AH/HI/SS^b	AH or HI or SS	One additional approved AH^b or HI^b or SS^b course (Credits: 3)

Natural & Physical Sciences	SC1	Any one approved SC1 course (Credits: 4)
	SC1 or SC2	Any one approved SC1 or SC2 course (Credits: 3-4)

Major Requirements: Credits: 42

Core Courses:

BL 220 - Latinx Immigrant Experience Credits: 3
BL 401 - Fronteras: Advanced Spanish Credits: 3
BL 495 - Imaginacion y Sociedad Credits: 3

Interdisciplinary Courses:

GWS 101 - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies Credits: 3
OR
SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology Credits: 3
SOC 200 - Social Change Credits: 3
SOC 315 - Field Methods Credits: 3 ^e
SOC 316 - Human Services Credits: 3 ^e
SOC 320 - Community Internship Credits: 1-16 ^e - minimum six (6) credits required
SOC 495 - Senior Seminar Credits: 3 ^e

Major Electives:

Complete four (4) courses. A minimum of two (2) courses must be upper division.

BL 101 - Music & Borderlands: Beginning Spanish Credits: 3
BL 102 - Survival Spanish Credits: 2
BL 103 - Conversational Spanish Credits: 2
BL 201 - Spanish for the Professions Credits: 3
BL 202 - The Wild Tongue: Intermediate Spanish Credits: 3
BL 250 - Latinx Culture Credits: 3
BL 313 - Narco Culture Credits: 3
BL 322 - Biopolitics: Bodies on the Border Credits: 3
BL 325 - Special Topics: Borderlands Credits: 3
BL 381 - Gender in Children’s and YA Latinx Literature Credits: 3
BL 434 - Trauma, Borders, and Monsters Credits: 3
CRIM 375 - Terrorism and Security Credits: 3
CRIM 380 - Immigration Law and Professional Spanish Credits: 3
SOC 352 - Latin America: Ravaged Utopia? Credits: 3
SOC 376 - Language and Social Behavior Credits: 3

Free Electives – Credits: Variable

TOTAL REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION - CREDITS: 120

^aCheck course description for minimum grade in prerequisite course(s) required to enroll in this course.

^b A minimum of 15 credits of coursework must be completed in the combined areas of AH/HI/SS.

^eThese courses are part of the Sociology Block program.

Note: Among the total credits required for graduation, at least 36 credits must be upper division (300- and 400-level) courses.

Note: Students completing the Liberal Arts Core in fewer than 33 credits will have additional free electives.

Note: Students who have met a prerequisite or required course through transfer, examinations, or assessment of prior learning will have additional free elective

Freshman Map to Graduation:

Borders and Languages Major: Freshman Map

Transfer Map to Graduation:

Borders and Languages Major: Transfer Map