Ethnic Studies

The following 2026-2027 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.

This Courses that Count List was edited on March 17, 2026. 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 Nick Bloom.

"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. McCarthy. (I)   F & S
  • AAAS 11 Introduction to African Studies. Agbiboa.   (T) Sp
  • AAAS 12 Intro to Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Henry.   (T) F
  • AAAS 66 History of Sport in Africa. Glovsky.   (T) Sp
  • AAAS 108 Black Religion and Sexuaity. Greene-Hayes.   Sp
  • AAAS 111Y Introduction to African Literature and Film. Mushakavanhu.   (T) Sp
  • AAAS 112x Transition(s). Mushakavanhu.   (T) F
  • AAAS 118x The Black American Experience through Film. Eatmon.   Sp
  • AAAS 119x Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food. Martin. (Pre-1900) Sp
  • AAAS 127x Novel Nations in Africa and Latin America. Mushakavanhu.   (T) F
  • AAAS 130x Richard Wright: Literature, Philosophy, and Politics. Shelby.    F
  • AAAS 134y The Philosophy and Politics of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Terry.    F
  • AAAS 146x A Black History of Electronic Dance Music. Aumoithe.   F
  • AAAS 154y African American Fraternal Associations in US Society and Politics. Skopol.    F
  • AAAS 179x Abolition, Then and Now. Johnson.  (Pre-1900) Sp
  • AAAS 185y Made to Feel: Race & Affect in the Americas. Henry.   (T) Sp

  • AAAS 191x African American Lives in the Law. TBA.    Sp

     

  • Anthropology 1716 Neoliberalism: Empire, Extraction, and the Re-making of the Global Social Order. Keshavjee.   (T) F

  • Anthropology 1900 Counseling as Colonization? Gone.    Sp

     

  • English 90as The American Short Story. Kim.  (Pre-1900) F
  • English 90cnc Conrad, Naipaul, Coetzee: Genealogies of the Global Imagination. Bhabha.    F
  • English 90fd The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Stauffer.  (Pre-1900) Sp
  • English 90ff Indigenous Sci Fi, Horror, Fantasy, and Futurisms. Pexa.   Sp
  • English 90mnp Monsters and Power: Indigenous and Writers of Color Reimagine the Monstrous. Pexa.    Sp
  • English 172m Immigrant Literature. Carpio.   (T) Sp
  • English 181al Introduction to Asian American Literature. Kim.  (T) Sp
  • English 185rj Race, Speech, and the Law. Menand.    F

  • English 187aa The Aesthetics of Athletics. Stauffer.    Sp

     

  • EMR 154 Migrations, Refugees, and Human Rights. Bhabha.   (T) F
  • EMR 157 Techno-Orientalism: Asia, Technology, Futurity. Fernandez.   (T) F
  • EMR 158 Land, Labor, Legacies: New Perspectives on Black and Indigenous Histories. TBA.    Sp
  • EMR 174 Mashpee and Harvard: Braided Histories. Braude.    F
  • EMR 179 Afro-Latinidades & World Diasporas. TBA.   (T) Sp

  • EMR 181 LatinX Medical Humanities. TBA.   (T) Sp

     

  • Folklore and Mythology 121 From Trad Lives to Trad Wives: Contemorary Homesteading. TBA.   (T) Sp
  • Folklore and Mythology 125 Introduction to the Indigenous Oral Literatures of the Northwest Coast of North America. Frim.    Sp

  • Folklore and Mythology 176 Tattoo: Histories and Practices. Lufkin.    F

     

  • General Education 1019 The Caribbean Crucible: Colonialism, Capitalism and Post-Colonial Misdevelopment In The Region. Patterson.    F
  • General Education 1042 Anime as Global Popular Culture. Yoda.   (T) Sp
  • General Education 1052 Race in a Polarized America. Hochschild.  (B) F
  • General Education 1089 The Border: Race, Politics, and Health in Modern Mexico. Soto Laveaga.   (T) F
  • General Education 1115 Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World. Patterson.  (Pre-1900) (T) Sp
  • General Education 1133 Is the US Civil War Still Being Fought? Stauffer.  (Pre-1900)  F

  • General Education 1176 Sexuality in Literature: From Giovanni's Room to Fun Home. Schlossberg.    Sp

     

  • Government 94aa American Political Thought. Ecker.    Sp
  • Government 94gc African American Politics. Gay.    Sp
  • Government 94lm The Politics of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Global Perspective. Malik.    Sp
  • Government 94mr The Politics of Immigration. Roman.    Sp

  • Government 1317 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States. Lee and Roman. (pre-1865)   Sp

     

  • History 25 Native American and Indigenous Studies: An Introduction. Deloria.   (T) Sp
  • History 26 Latin America and the United States. Weld.   (T) F
  • History 57 The Making of the Modern Middle East. Bsheer.   (T) Sp
  • History 63 Afro-Indigenous Intersections in Early America. Miles. (Pre-1900) Sp
  • History 65 The Black American Experience since 1865. Eatmon.    Sp
  • History 67 The United States and World Order since 1900. Manela.   (T) F
  • History 73 Environmental History of the United States. Deloria.    F
  • History 122 Scandal in the Colonies. McKenzie.   (T) F
  • History 164 Romancing the Archive: Romance Fiction in Historical and Cultural Context. Miles.    F
  • History 175 US History: Major Themes in the Twentieth Century. McGirr.    F
  • History 188 Ecologies of American Empire: the United States and Global Environments, 1898 - 2000. Ruamcharoen.   (T) Sp

  • History 1957 Healthcare and the Welfare State. Aumoithe.    Sp

     

  • History and Literature 10 Introduction to Cultural Studies. Allan.    Sp
  • History and Literature 90dv Red Scares. Biel.    Sp
  • History and Literature 90hd Literatures of the Displaced: Diasporic Culture in the United States. Lam-Saili.   (T) F
  • History and Literature 90hm The University and the City. Hogan.    Sp
  • History and Literature 90hn Soccer, Globalization, and Urban Life. Carvalho.   (T) F
  • History and Literature 90ho New York Modern. Hawkey.    F
  • History and Literature 90hp Manliness & Civilization. Bloom.    F

  • History and Literature 93aa Queer Archives. Kaminsky.    Sp

     

  • History of Art and Architecture 172v Unseen Black Art. Lewis.    Sp

     

  • History of Science 1450 The Mind Has No Sex: The History of Women in Science in the US. Hammonds.    Sp

  • History of Science 1458 Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: A History of Health Disparities in America. Hammonds.    Sp

     

  • Religion 16 Religious Dimensions in Human Experience: Apocalypse, Sports, Music, Home, Sacrifice, Medicine. Carrasco.    F
  • Religion 33 Indigenous Pacific Islander Wellbeing and Spirtuality. Lautua.    Sp
  • Religion 147 Religion and Nationalism: The Case of Religious (anti) -Zionism. Harush.    F
  • Religion 1087 Black Religion and Sexuaity. Greene-Hayes.   Sp
  • Religion 1093 Racial Liberalism and the Ethics of Law and Justice. Johnson.    Sp
  • Religion 1497 Evangelicalism in America. Brekus.    F
  • Religion 1562 Alternative Spiritualities in the United States. McKanan.    F
  • Religion 1901 The Religious and Ecological Diminsons of Octavia Butler's Parable. Hoskins.    Sp

  • Religion 1902 American Religious Ecofascism. Hoskins.    Sp

     

  • Sociology 1276 Fiction as Social Theory: Memory, Domination, and Resistance in the Novel. Dromi.    F

     

  • WGS 1133 Gender and Performance. Bernstein.    Sp
  • WGS 1170 Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation, 1955 - 1975. Bronski.    F
  • WGS 1424 American Fetish: Consumer Culture Encounters the Other. Light.    Sp
  • WGS 1471 Art, Culture, and the Global Struggle for Black Liberation. Kothor.   (T) Sp

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