Ethnic Studies Minor

Ethnic Groups and Identity

This area includes courses that address the role ethnicity plays in one’s individual, social, and political experiences and identity. The courses listed below are representative of courses that address some of the above particularities. Other courses accepted with approval by Program Director.

• COMM 106 - Intercultural Communication
• ENGL 154 - Studies in African-American Literature
• SOC 107 - Whiteness
• SOC 111 - Sociology of Families
• SOC 112 - Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 125 - Gender and Society
• WGS 172 - Masculinities Research Seminar

Arts and Literature

Within Ethnic Studies, the role of Arts and Literature is not only to reflect the social reality of ethnic experiences in the United States, but also to shape and transform that reality. Students will examine competing notions of identity and community that emerge in the literary and artistic expressions of U.S. writers and artists of color. The courses listed below are representative of courses that address some of the above particularities. Other courses accepted with approval by the Program Director.

• COMM 143 - Special Topics in Media Production
• ENGL 153 - American Ethnic Writers and Oral Traditions
• SEM 144 - Multicultural Thought

Socioeconomics and Inequality

This area includes courses that address the relationship between race and ethnicity and economic, political, and social inequalities in contemporary society. The courses listed below are representative of courses that address some of the above particularities. Other courses accepted with approval by the Program Director.

• COMM 161 - Communication and Social Justice
• JCL 130 - Environmental Justice
• KINES 118 - Community Health
• POL 101 - State and Urban Politics
• POL 106 - Politics of Labor
• POL 109 - Topics in American Politics
• POL 115 - Theories of Justice
• POL 125 - Human Rights
• POL 126 - Food Politics
• POL 127 - Field Work for POL 126: Food Politics
• SOC 115 - Wealth and Poverty
• SOC 120 - Social Movements
• SOC 122 - Education and Society
• TRS 117 - Wealth and Poverty in the Bible

Note

Other courses accepted with approval by the Program Director. In addition, new courses are approved on a term-to-term basis.