Ethnic Studies

The following 2023-2024 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. Gates. (I) (Pre-1900)  Sp
  • AAAS 55. Ishmael Reed: Novels, Poetry, Essays. Carpio. Sp
  • AAAS 109. Religion, Theory, and the Archive. Greene-Hayes. F
  • AAAS 112. Black Humor: Performance, Art, and Literature. Carpio.    Sp
  • AAAS 112. Black Art and the Refounding of America: Art, Race, and U.S. Law. Lewis.    F
  • AAAS 119. Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food. Martin. Sp
  • AAAS 177x. W.E.B. Du Bois and His Critics. Gates. Sp
  • AAAS 120x African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance. Bernstein.    F
  • AAAS 146x A Black History of Electronic Dance Music. Aumoithe.    F
  • AAAS 156x Contemporary African American Theater. Carpio.    F
  • AAAS 170y Black Classicisms: Adaptations of Ancient Greek & Roman Classics in Africa, the Caribbean, & the US. Greenwood.   (T) Sp
  • AAAS 180z Freedom Writers: Race and Literary Form. McCarthy.    Sp
  • AAAS 184x Jim Crow: Histories and Revivals. Eatmon.    F
  • AAAS 191x African American Lives in the Law. Higginbotham.    Sp
     
  • Anthropology 1080. American History Before Columbus. Liebmann.  (Pre-1900) (T) Sp
     
  • English 90ah Asian American Theater and Performanc.e Kim.    F
  • English 90b James/Baldwin. McCarthy.    
  • English 90fd The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Stauffer.  (pre-1900)  
  • English 90ff Indigenous Sci Fi, Horror, Fantasy, and Futurisms. Pexa.    F
  • English 90ln Harvard and Native Lands. Niles and Izadi. (Pre-1900)  F
  • English 90ji Not Vanishing: Indigenous Literary Theory and Criticism. Justice.    Sp
  • English 90ri Race in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Dikcis.    F
  • English 172ad American Democracy. Stauffer.    Sp
  • English 173bl The Black Lyric. Smith.    Sp
  • English 176tm Toni Morrison. Serpell.    Sp
  • English 195bd The Dark Side of Big Data. Dikcis.    Sp
  • English 197ls Introduction to Indigenous Literary Studies: Poetry, Prose, and Politics. Justice. (I)   F
     
  • EMR 123. Issues in the Study of Native American Religion. Braude.    F
  • EMR 133. Power, Knowledge, Identity: Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity. Craig.    F
  • EMR 139. Coloniality, Race, and Catastrophe. Rivera.   (T) Sp
  • EMR 148. Indigeneity and Latinidad. Mendoza-Mori.   (T) Sp
  • EMR 149. Latinx Representation in Media, Films, and Pop Culture. Mendoza-Mori.    Sp
  • EMR 158. Land, Labor, and the Color Line: New Perspectives on Black and Indigenous Histories. Izadi. (Pre-1900) F
  • EMR 159. Contemporary Asian Amerian Popular Culture. Fernandez.    F
  • EMR 160. Environmental Practices and Indigenous Knowlege Systems. Mendoza-Mori. Sp
  • EMR161. Urban Latinidad: Barrios, Public Space, and Social Movements. Mendoza-Mori. Sp
  • EMR 162. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Artificial Intelligence. Fernandez. Sp.
  • EMR 163. Asian American Graphic Narratives. Fernandez. Sp
  • EMR 164. Global Rebellion: Race, Solidarity, and Decolonization. Sp 
  • EMR 1010. Topics in Latinx Studies: Imagining Latinidad. Mendoza-Mori.    F
  • EMR1030. Topics in Native American and Indigenous Studies: North America. Izadi. (I) (Pre-1900Sp
  • General Education 1019. The Carribbean Crucible: Colonialism, Capitalism and Post-Colonial Misdevelopment In The Region. Patterson.   (T) F
  • General Education 1022 Vision and Justice: The Art of Race and American Citizenship. Lewis. (Pre-1900)
  • General Education 1113 Race, Gender, and Performance. Bernstein.    Sp
  • General Education 1115 Human Trafficking, Slavery, and Abolition in the Modern World. Patterson. (Pre-1900) 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 15y Race, Gender, and the Law Through the Archive. Eatmon.    F
  • History 16c Rituals of Rebellion: Race Religion and Resistance in the African Diaspora. Araujo   (T) Sp
  • History 1511 Latin America and the United States. Weld.   (T) Sp
     
  • History and Literature 90cm Asian American Cultural Studies. Huang. (I)   F
  • History and Literature 90ga Slavery and Historical Memory. Bloom. (I) (Pre-1900)  F
  • History and Literature 90gc Race and the Environment in the Atlantic World. Cole. (I) (Pre-1900) (T) F
  • History and Literature 90gi Transpacific Empires. Kim. (I)  (T) 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. Knolle. (I)   F
  • History and Literature 90gl Zombies, Witchcraft, and Uncanny Science. Sylvain. (I) Sp
  • History and Literature 90go Protest and Decolonization. Sanchez Cruz. (I) (T) Sp
  • History and Literature 90fi Race and Empire in the Americas. Waits. (I)  (T) F
  • History and Literature 90fl Indigenous in the City. Ridgway. (I)   F
  • History and Literature 90ae Prison Abolition. Dichter. (I)   Sp
  • History and Literature 90ez The Global South Asian Diaspora. Dadawala (I)  (T) F
     
  • History of Art and Architecture 79 Indigenous Art History of the Great Lakes: From the Pictograph to the Beaded Medallion. Instructor TBA.    Sp
  • History of Art and Architecture 179g Indigenous Diplomacy in the Great Lakes & Northeast: Mnemonically Coding Sovereign Relationships. Instructor TBA.  (Pre-1900)  F
     
  • History of Science 1458 Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: A History of Health Disparities in America. Hammonds.    F
     
  • Music 27 Latino Music in the United States. Madrid-Gonzalez.    F
  • Music 29 Black Protest Music. Barron.    F
  • Music 190r Gospel Music from the Church to the Streets. Barron.    Sp
     
  • Religion 1087 Black Religion and Sexuality. Greene-Hayes.    F
  • Religion 1089 African American Religious History. Greene-Hayes. Sp
  • Religion 1589 Truths & Reconciliations. Klassen.    F
  • Religion 1599 Asian American Religion. Eck.    Sp
  • Religion 1590 Issues in the Study of Native American Religion. Braude.    F
     
  • WGS 1170 Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation. Bronski.    F
  • WGS 1210ft Black Feminist Theory Perry.    F
  • WGS 1216 Women's Voices in Asian and Asian American Literature. Choi.   (T) Sp