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Ethnic Studies

The following 2024-2025 courses count for concentration credit in the Ethnic Studies field.

In most cases, this means that at least 50% of the material in the course relates directly to the student’s field. If you find a course that you think is well-suited to your own particular course of study, but that does not appear on the list, please petition the Committee on Instruction for credit, keeping in mind the 50% guideline.

Please note that this list is subject to change through the start of the semester. Make sure you check back before registering for classes. Look to the key below to determine which courses can count towards specific field requirements. Click on the requirement term to see a short list of courses that fulfill that field requirement. If you have any questions, please direct them to Assistant Director of Studies Morgan Day Frank.

"F" indicates a course offered during the fall semester. "Sp" indicates a course offered during the spring semester. 

Key to Requirements:
Intro category (I): Ethnic Studies survey/introduction
Pre-1900 category (Pre-1900): Pre-1900 in Ethnic Studies
Transnational (T): Race or ethnicity in a transnational U. S. or global context

  • AAAS 10. Introduction to African American Studies. Perry. (I) (Pre-1900) F
  • AAAS 55. Ishmael Reed: Novels, Poetry, Essays. Carpio.    Sp
  • AAAS 108. Black Religion and Sexuality. Greene-Hayes.    F
  • AAAS 109. Religion, Theory, and the Archive. Greene-Hayes.    F
  • AAAS 119. Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food. Martin.    Sp
  • AAAS 120x African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance. Bernstein.    F
  • AAAS 133y. The Politics of Paradise: Tourism in Latin America. Instructor. (T) F  
  • AAAS 142x Foundations of Modern Jazz. Monson.   (T) Sp
  • AAAS 146x A Black History of Electronic Dance Music. Aumoithe. F 
  • AAAS 177x W.E.B. Du Bois and His Critics. Gates.    Sp
  • AAAS 191x African American Lives in the Law. Higginbotham.    Sp
  • AAAS 194z World Fairs. Blier.   (T) Sp
  • AAAS 197. Poverty, Race, and Health. Williams.    F
     
  • AFVS 187. Indigenous Cinema. Hopinka. (B) F 
     
  • Anthropology 1190. American Invasions: Archaeological Tales of Encounter, Exploration, and Colonization, 1492-1830. Liebmann.  (Pre-1900)  Sp
  • English 90fd The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Stauffer.  (pre-1900)
  • English 90ln Harvard and Native Lands. Niles  (Pre-1900)  F
  • English 172ad American Democracy Stauffer. Unger.    Sp
  • English 185rj Race and Jurisprudence. Menand.    Sp
  • English 187nd Indigenous Literatures of the Other-than-Human. Pexa.    F
  • English 197ls Introduction to Indigenous Literary Studies: Poetry, Prose, and Politics. Pexa. (I)   Sp
  • EMR 121. Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation. Henson. Sp
  • EMR 139. Coloniality, Race, and Catastrophe. Rivera.   (T) Sp
  • EMR 157. Techno-Orientalism: Asia, Technology, Futurity. Fernandez.    F
  • EMR 159. Contemporary Asian Amerian Popular Culture. Fernandez.    F
  • EMR 161. Urban Latinidad: Barrios, Public Space, and Social Movements. Mendoza-Mori.    Sp
  • EMR 162. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Aritificial Intelligence. Fernandez.    Sp
  • EMR 163. Asian American Graphic Narratives. Fernandez.    Sp
  • EMR 164. Global Rebellion: Race, Solidarity, and Decolonizatin. Patel.    Sp
  • EMR 1010. Topics in Latinx Studies: Imagining Latinidad. Mendoza-Mori. (I)   F
  • EMR 1020. Topics in AAPI Studies. Craig. (I)  (T) Sp
  • EMR 1030 Topics in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Izadi. (I)   Sp
  • EMR 1040. Topics in Asian American Studies. Fernandez. (I) F
  • General Education 1089. The Border: Race, Politics, and Health in Modern Mexico. Soto Laveaga.    F
  • General Education 1115 Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World. Patterson.  (Pre-1900)  Sp
  • General Education 1130 Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation. Bronski.    Sp
  • General Education 1148 Moctezuma's Mexico Then and Now: The Past, The Present and Pandemics in North America. Fash and Carrasco.  (Pre-1900) (T) F
  • General Education 1178 Mexico and the Making of Global Cuisine. Carballo    Sp
  • History 16a. Immigrant Justice Lab. Hoffnung-Garskof.  Sp
  • History 16g. Echoes of the Past: Indigenous Retellings of Conquest & Colonialism. Hopp. (Pre-1900) F
  • History 16s. Asian American Women in the Archive: Schlesinger Library Immersive Course. Lee. Sp 
  • History 1014 Afro-Indigenous Intersections in Early America. Miles.  (Pre-1900)  Sp
  • History 1908 Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition. Brown and Johnson.    Sp
  • History 1940. Migration, Belonging, and the Law in Europe and the Americas. Herzog. Hoffnung-Garskof. (T) F
  • History 1963 The Black Press in Latin America. Alberto.   (T) F
  • History 1965 Asian American History. Lee.    F
  • History and Literature 90br Work and Labor Across the Americas. Hogan. (I) (T) F
  • History and Literature 90cm Asian American Cultural Studies. Remoquillo.  (I)  F
  • History and Literature 90gk Performing Latinidad: Race, Sex, and Excess in Contemporary U.S. Culture. Sanchez Cruz. (I)   F
  • History and Literature 90gj Contesting Citizenship in the United States. Teeters Knolle. (I)   Sp
  • History and Literature 90gl Zombies, Witchcraft, and Uncanny Science. Sylvain. (I)   Sp
  • History and Literature 90gp Race and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century American Thought. Bloom. (I)   F
  • History and Literature 90gr Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America. Ridgway. (I)   F
  • History and Literature 90gx U.S. Women of Color Feminisms since the 1970s. Lam-Saili. (I)  F
  • History and Literature 90fi Race and Empire in the Americas. Waits. (I) (T)  F
  • History and Literature 93ae Prison Abolition. Dichter. (I)   F
  • History of Art and Architecture. 174. "I Can't Breathe!" - Tracing the Spatially Suffocated African Diaspora in the Americas. Instructor. Sp  
  • History of Art and Architecture 178v Art of the Black World. Lewis and Blier.    F
  • History of Art and Architecture 179v Vision and Justice. Lewis.    Sp
  • History of Art and Architecture 197p Introduction to Pre-Columbian Art. Cummins.    F
  • History of Science 1684 Race, War, and Medicine. Robinson.    Sp
  • Music 30 Music to Re-imagine the World: From Afrofuturism to Experimental Music across Planet Earth. Instructor TBD.    F
  • Music 32 Music of the Mexican Diaspora. Madrid-Gonzalez.    F
  • Music 142r Foundations of Modern Jazz. Terry.    F
  • Music 142r Foundations of Modern Jazz. Monson and Terry.    Sp
  • Religion 1093. Racial Liberalism and the Ethics of Law and Justice. Johnson.  F
  • TDM 173bf Black Feminist Theory in Media and Performance. Bell.    F
  • TDM 182b Black Arts Movement to #blacklivesmatter. Bell.    Sp
  • WGS 1210ft Black Feminist Theory. Perry.    F
  • WGS 1216 Women's Voices in Asian and Asian American Literature. Choi.   (T) Sp