About El Camino: Latinx Studies, Latin American Studies, and Multilingual Education
This Path offers the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of Latin American and Latinx culture, history, politics. You can also study the theories, research, and methods used to teach English-language learners in the US and abroad. Build real skills through community-based work, language study, study abroad, and more. Reconnect with your cultural heritage or strengthen your skills in cross-cultural communication.
This Path give you one-of-a-kind opportunities to shape your future work with Latinx and Latin American communities. You’ll get hands-on experience and build real skills in:
- Community-based learning
- Critical thinking
- Cross-cultural communications
- Qualitative research
- Teaching
- Writing, speaking, and reading in English and Spanish
You will have the opportunity to develop and deepen your Spanish language skills at all levels, from beginning to advanced. Our language programs, which combine language learning with the study of history, culture, and politics, mean you’ll learn more than just Spanish—you’ll explore the history behind the language and learn Spanish within its cultural contexts.
You’ll have hands-on opportunities that bring the Spanish language to life, like studying abroad or working with Spanish-speaking communities closer to home.