对Chicana / o经验和文化的口头和书面陈述的研究。认识到语言内和跨语言表达的复杂性。承认书面文件中陈述的挑战。调查口头传统中的制约因素和机会。通过文化文字研究奇卡纳人的经历和事件，包括语言和非语言的交流与表征。认识到视觉，音频和表演艺术作品在维护文化中的重要性。研究社会结构（从地方和家庭到国家和全球范围），以及它们对奇卡纳（o）的经历和文化带来的机遇和挑战。包括通过大规模定量方法调查社会结构。重点研究教育，政府性和全球化/新自由主义。
The Department of Chicana/o Studies provides a venue for the interdisciplinary and multi-method study of social justice through studying Chicana/o/x, Latina/o/x, and Indigenous cultures, communities, and experiences. The Department was created to respond to the need for critically educated K-12 teachers and counselors, those working in the law and public policy, as well as within social and environmental justice non-profit organizations. Aided by your education in Chicana and Chicano Studies, you can become a more effective advocate for your community.<br><br>The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program that fosters a historical, political, social, and cultural understanding of the heterogeneous Chicano and Chicana experience. Chicana and Chicano Studies builds upon the critical inquiry of traditional disciplines, as well as upon a host of innovative approaches that have surfaced over the last few decades, most notably in gender, ethnic, sexuality, border, and global studies. Chicana and Chicano Studies thus actively advocates the crossing of disciplinary boundaries and encourages the creative interweaving of methods, providing a unique alternative to traditional forms of intellectual inquiry.