Critical Ethnic Studies Minor
Minor Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| CRES 200 | INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | 4 |
| Choose one of: | 3-4 | |
| MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN THE UNITED STATES | ||
| RACE, IMPERIALISM, JUSTICE | ||
| LAW, RIGHTS AND JUSTICE | ||
| RACE & ETHNICITY | ||
| Electives | ||
| Choose three from the following list. No more than two can be taken from a single department (this includes Core Courses taken). | 9-12 | |
| PERFORMING LITERATURE | ||
| INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES | ||
| DIVERSE VOICES ACROSS THE WINE INDUSTRY (ALSO LISTED AS WINE 234) | ||
| TOPICS IN AMERICAN PUBLIC ADDRESS | ||
| FAIRNESS AND RESPONSIBILITY IN DATA SCIENCE | ||
| DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | ||
| LABOR ECONOMICS | ||
| FOUNDATIONS FOR TEACHING ESOL | ||
| LANGUAGE POLICY, ISSUES AND ADVOCACY FOR ESOL | ||
| EQUITY AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING | ||
| WOMEN WRITERS (ALSO LISTED AS GENS 300) | ||
| GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS | ||
| DIVERSE VOICES IN LITERARY EXPRESSION | ||
| 20TH CENTURY GLOBAL BRITISH LITERATURE | ||
| LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN CINEMA | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN STUDIES | ||
| MODERN AFRICAN THOUGHT | ||
| FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN CINEMA IN TRANSLATION | ||
| LITERATURE AND SOCIETY: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | ||
| SPANISH IN THE US | ||
| LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES THROUGH FILM | ||
| EAST ASIA BEFORE 1800 | ||
| EAST ASIA SINCE 1800 | ||
| LATIN AMERICA TO 1810 | ||
| LATIN AMERICA SINCE 1810 AMERICA | ||
| MODERN CHINA | ||
| JEWISH-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN MODERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (ALSO LISTED AS RELS 207) | ||
| MODERN JAPAN | ||
| REVOLUTIONS IN 20TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA | ||
| FASCISM AND THE HOLOCAUST IN EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO US WOMEN'S HISTORY (ALSO LISTED AS GENS 267) | ||
| NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY | ||
| THE US-MEXICO BORDER REGION | ||
| MODERN MEXICO | ||
| HISTORY OF WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA (ALSO LISTED AS GENS 318) | ||
| GENDER AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF EAST ASIA (ALSO LISTED AS GENS 322) | ||
| PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST (ALSO LISTED AS RELS 160) | ||
| SPORT, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY (ALSO LISTED AS SOAN 210) | ||
| LAW, RIGHTS AND JUSTICE | ||
| POLITICS OF INEQUALITY | ||
| INTERNATIONAL LAW, ETHICS, AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE | ||
| HISTORY OF RELIGION OF THE MIDDLE EAST (ALSO LISTED AS HIST 310) | ||
| HISTORY OF RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES (ALSO LISTED AS HIST 330) | ||
| IMPERIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA | ||
| PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF NORTH AMERICA: THE NATIVE AMERICANS | ||
| LOVE, SEX, AND DEATH IN CHINESE CULTURE | ||
| MEDICINE AND CULTURE | ||
| LATINAS AND LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES | ||
| SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | ||
| COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY | ||
Approved Internship | ||
| Total Credits | 16-20 | |
Student Learning Outcomes
- Develop and demonstrate the acquisition of critical frameworks for understanding historical, contemporary and intersectional perspectives on race, racism, ethnicity in an U.S. and/or a transnational perspective.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze how “race,” “ethnicity,” and/or indigeneity are historically and culturally specific (dependent on time and place); relational (not formed in isolation); and intersectional (informed by other social formations such as class, gender, sexuality, etc.).
- Explore how society can be centrally constituted by racial, ethnic, and indigenous formations in global and historical contexts, in preparation for a diverse society and international world.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify the perspectives, values, and claims made in primary cultural texts, and evaluate the secondary/scholarly analyses of those sources based on cultural, literary, linguistic, historical, artistic, and/or environmental analyses, and communicate the findings effectively in written and oral formats.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for diverse values and perspectives surrounding race and ethnicity along with a familiarity of various interdisciplinary methods applied to conducting research and analysis.
- Develop lines of inquiry around personal and auto-ethnographic research that leads to understanding one’s own race and ethnicity and critiquing the broader relationships between self, nation and the globe.
- Effectively articulate in oral and written form complex ideas about knowledge, power, and society.
- Demonstrate the development of cultural competencies for communicating with people of different cultural and racial backgrounds. Apply interdisciplinary methods and theories of critical race and ethnic studies through work in areas such as performance, art, direct service, internships, and study abroad.