Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS Professor Jessica Taft has spent more than a decade studying youth activism

LALS Professor Jessica Taft

Human Rights Lab

Student researchers use high-tech sleuthing tools at the Research Center for the Americas

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Major in LALS at UCSC

Learn more about Latin American and Latino Studies and our combined majors with politics and sociology

LALS graduate student awarded prestigious fellowship to support research on national security policy

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NEWS & EVENTS

April 29, 2021Fellowship win supports doctoral candidate’s research on national security policy
March 11, 2021LALS Graduate Student Co-Curates "CARAVANA" Exhibit
March 4, 2021Professor Catherine Ramírez Talks: Pachucas, Latinx Futurisms, Assimilation & Precarity

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

LALS and Biology alumna Yulianna Ortega has won the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association Outstanding Staff Award, for her work as the STEM Diversity Programs director.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Assimilation: An Alternative History - Catherine Ramirez

Argentina in the Global Middle East - Lily Pearl Balloffet

Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met - Jeffrey Erbig

The Kids Are in Charge - Jessica Taft

Mapping Diaspora - Patricia Pinho

Power Interrupted - Sylvanna Falcón

Salvadoran Imaginaries - Cecilia Rivas

Rebel Girls - Jessica Taft

Mexican Chicago - Gabriela Arredondo

INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES

CITL:

Keep Teaching - CITL Teaching Resource Page

CITL - Teaching During Unplanned Events

Canvas:

"Creating a Quiz" in Canvas

ITS: Ways to accommodate students in Canvas

Zoom:

How to secure Zoom class meetings from non-UCSC affiliates

It's all about bite-sized pieces (short 'how to' Zoom tutorials for teaching colleagues)

Inside Higher Ed: Avoiding mischief and mayhem in the great leap to zoom

UCSC ITS best practices for virtual meetings

FOR STUDENTS

Undergraduate Students:

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Major Requirements
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Scholarships and Awards

LALS Community Arts Project 2020-2021

Graduate Students:

LALS Graduate Student Accomplishments

Graduate Student Handbook

Designated Emphasis

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