Ethnic Studies (ETHN)
Taught in English. Students should have taken at least one 300 level course in Ethnic Studies or in any of the Modern Languages.
Description: Research of major works of Latin American fiction and poetry translated into English. Translation will be also a topic of study.
Prerequisites: 9 hours of SOCI, or Senior standing.
Description: Systematic examination of racial, ethnic, and other minority groups. History and present status of such groups, the origins of prejudice and discrimination, and the application of social science knowledge toward the elimination of minority group problems.
Prerequisites: ETHN 100
prerequisite provides an overview of the U.S. race/ethnic groups.
Description: Exploration of race and law issues and how race has been influenced by and influenced the law in the United States. Topics include the origins and content of race in the law, the major legal issues for various ethnic groups, and substantive areas of law where racial legal outcomes have occurred, race bias, stereotypes and essentialism.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing
Description: Examination of the history of education in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Focus on shifts in formal educational policy and the influence of those policies on diverse demographic groups. Themes include the emergence of a public and private school systems, the spread of segregated schools, the development of curricular standards, the history of teachers, the push for desegregation, as well as debates over students' rights, language, affirmative action, and the public/private nature of charter schools, especially in terms of social justice.
Description: Contemporary and historical issues surrounding race, social justice and inequality. Topics include racism and inequality in U.S. society, environmental and social justice, and global issues such as migration and human trafficking. Letter grade only.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Individual or group study on a topic in Ethnic Studies under the supervision and evaluation of an Ethnic Studies faculty member.
Description: Understand the entanglement between race and varying global systems of domination (imperialism, settler-colonialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, racial-capitalism). Interrogate, un-do, and reimagine the colonial and imperialist assumptions underwriting the politics of knowledge production in the field of Rhetorical Studies.
Description: Issues of importance to a particular ethnic experience through the study of relevant literary texts.
Description: Engages with recent and classic scholarship on race, ethnicity, and identity, primarily in American history. Covers new comparative and transnational scholarship. May emphasize different themes and readings depending on area of expertise of faculty. Letter grade only.