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UTEP Launches Online Chicano Studies Program
Originally published June 21, 2017
By UC Staff
UTEP Communications
https://www.utep.edu/newsfeed/campus/UTEP-Launches-Online-Chicano-Studies-Program.html
The Chicano Studies Program at The University of Texas at El Paso has recently
launched a new online Bachelor of Arts in Chicano Studies option enabling students
across the United States and around the globe to have access to one of the oldest
and most respected Chicano Studies programs in the nation.
In 1971, UTEP became the first university in Texas to introduce a Chicano Studies
program.
UTEP’s online option will follow a similar curriculum to that of the University’s on-
campus Bachelor of Arts in Chicano Studies program with one major difference:
online students will be able to attend classes from anywhere in the world they have
a computer and Internet access.
“There are large concentrations of ethnic Mexicans residing throughout the
country who hunger for knowledge about history and culture, who want to see
themselves in the grand narrative of the United States,” said Dennis Bixler-
Márquez, Ph.D., director of Chicano Studies. “This program provides them with
that space.”
The multi- and interdisciplinary Chicano Studies program is 100 percent online and is
ideal for aspiring professionals seeking to work in positions (both in the private and
public sector) that require knowledge of the Mexican origin population together
with literacy and digital communication skills.
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