Work Experience Education provides supervised employment extending classroom occupational learning at an on-the-job learning station relating to the students’ educational or occupational goals. Each unit of credit requires 54 hours of employment during the semester. Work Experience Education is available to all students. Students are accepted as a result of consultation with a designated faculty member in the discipline. Field trips may be required. Prerequisites: Completion of at least 3 courses in the discipline. Transfer credit: CSU. Notes: Students may enroll in up to 14 units of work experience education per semester or term; There is no limit to the number of terms for which a student may enroll in work experience education.

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Mexican American/Chicana/o historical and contemporary experience in the United States, emphasizing movements of social justice, resilience, decolonization, and cultural heritage. The course will include an analysis of the economic, political, social, historical and intellectual development of Mexican American/Chicana/o culture and community, and a study of the development of Chicana/o Studies in United States. The course enacts an Interdisciplinary examination of representation, ideologies, and material conditions of Mexican American/Chicana/o, including colonialism, race, labor, immigration, poverty, assimilation, gender, sexuality, and patriarchy. Field trips may be required. Transfer credit: CSU; UC. Formerly: ChStd 1.