Program Requirement

Catalog Year: 2026 - 2027 General Studies Gold

Degree: Certificate, Certificate

College/School: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Plan Code: LABDRSCERT

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minimum credit hours

Upper division minimum
credit hours

Requirement	Minimum Grade	Credit Hours

Requirement	Minimum Grade	Credit Hours
The certificate in border studies requires 15 upper-division credit hours. A minimum of six upper-division credit hours must be completed through The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. When selecting courses, the college offering the course can be identified by viewing the course details in Class Search. Only courses completed with a grade of "C" (2.00 on a scale of 4.00) or better may be applied toward the certificate requirements.
TCL 303 Transborder Theory 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
TCL 305 Transborder Practicum and Field Research 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
TCL 472 The U.S.-Mexico Border: People, Place, Power 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
TCL 314 Transborder Latin American Migration to the U.S. (SOBE) TCL 327 Health and Migration (SOBE) TCL 332 Mexican American History Since 1900 (GCSI) TCL 348 The Borders of Language (SOBE) TCL 377 Arizona, Immigration, Latinos and Politics TCL 378 Globalization: Migration, Mass Media, McDonald's (GCSI) TCL 425 Geography of the Mexican American Borderland TCL 431 Language Hegemony and Culture TCL 443 Political Ecology of the Border TCL 444 The Ethnography of Mexico and the Borderlands TCL 447 Gender, Culture, and Development (GCSI) TCL 484 Internship TCL 494 Topic: Ethnography of Schooling in the Borderlands TCL 494 Topic: Feminism on the Border TCL 494 Topic: Indigenous Nations & Human Rights on the Border 6 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	6

Notes

Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this certificate.

Border Studies, Certificate