The Latino/a and Latin American Studies Major requires ten courses (40 units) plus SPAN 202 OR SPAN 211. Students are strongly encouraged to take a one unit-course in United States Latino or Latin American Performance Art (Music or Dance) before they graduate. The ten course distribution requirements are:
Students must also select four additional electives from the following list of courses (not counting courses used to satisfy the "Latin American survey" requirement above). Two of these must be at the 300 level. One of the four electives must be an arts or humanities course.
| AMST 260/LLAS 260 | United States Latino Literature and Cultural Studies | 4 units |
| ECON 324 | The Economics of Immigration | 4 units |
| EDUC 213/LLAS 213 | Chicano Education | 4 units |
| DWA 237 | Cuba, Vietnam, China: Communism in a Post-Communist World | 4 units |
| DWA 240 | Civil Society, Religion, and Revolutionary Movements | 4 units |
| HIST 151/LLAS 151 | Modern Latin America | 4 units |
| HIST 252/LLAS 252 | Religion in Mexico, PreColumbian Times to Present | 4 units |
| HIST 258/LLAS 258 | Twentieth Century Mexico | 4 units |
| HIST 300 | History Colloquium | 4 units |
| HIST 354 | The History of Race in Latin America | 4 units |
| HIST 355/LLAS 355 | Indians of Mexico | 4 units |
| HIST 359 | Mexico-United States Borderlands | 4 units |
| LLAS 250 | Dialogue on Critical Latinx/Latin American Issues | 4 units |
| MUSC 102/LLAS 102 | Music of Latin America | 4 units |
| MUSC 385 | Advanced Topics in the Critical Study of Music | 4 units |
| MUSC 386 | Performance and Politics of the United States-Mexico Border | 4 units |
| POLS 221/DWA 224 | Latin American Politics | 4 units |
| PSYC 385/LLAS 385 | Chicanx Identities and Social Institutions: Education, Health, Politics | 4 units |
| RELS 228 | Chican@ Religious Identities | 4 units |
| SOC 210/LLAS 210 | The Struggle for Human Rights in Mexico | 4 units |
| SOC 335/LLAS 335 | Democratizing Latin America | 4 units |
| SPAN 301 | Introduction to Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Literature and Civilization | 4 units |
| SPAN 309 | Latin American Writers in Spain | 4 units |
| SPAN 313 | Latin American Film and Culture | 4 units |
| SPAN 314 | Latin American Women's Voices in Fiction and Film | 4 units |
| SPAN 363 | Hispanic Autobiography | 4 units |
| SPAN 370 | The Jungle in Modern Latin American Literature | 4 units |
| SPAN 377 | Magical Realism in Latin America | 4 units |
| SPAN 383 | Survey of Chicano Literature | 4 units |
| THEA 303/LLAS 303 | Latina/o Theater | 4 units |