Chicana & Chicano Studies

Chicana/o Studies at CSUN was established in 1969 in response to the educational needs of Chicana/o students. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Rodolfo Acuña was recruited by students, faculty, and community and became the Department's founding faculty member. Courses were designed to provide students with an awareness of the social, political, economic, historical and cultural realities in our society. It was structured as an inter-disciplinary, area studies department in order to offer a Chicana/o critique and perspective within the traditional disciplines.

Currently the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at CSUN is the largest of its kind in the country housing 25 full-time and 35 part-time professors and offers over 160 sections a semester.

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