# Ethnic Studies ## expand\_more 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](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/CTC-ethnic-studies#by-requirements) **Pre-1900 category** **(Pre-1900):**[Pre-1900 in Ethnic Studies](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/CTC-ethnic-studies#by-requirements) **Transnational (T):** [Race or ethnicity in a transnational U. S. or global context](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/CTC-ethnic-studies#by-requirements) - 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 ## By Requirement Open all sections Close all sections ### Ethnic Studies survey/introduction expand\_more - AAAS 10 Introduction to African American Studies. McCarthy. **F & Sp** ### Pre-1900 in Ethnic Studies expand\_more - AAAS 119X Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food. Martin. **Sp** - AAAS 179x Abolition, Then and Now. Johnson. **Sp** - English 90as The American Short Story. Kim. **F** - English 90fd The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Stauffer. **Sp** - History 63 Afro-Indigenous Intersections in Early America. Miles. **Sp** - General Education 1133 Is the US Civil War Still Being Fought? Stauffer. **F** ### Race or ethnicity in a transnational U. S. or global context expand\_more - AAAS 11 Introduction to African Studies. Agbiboa. **Sp** - AAAS 12 Intro to Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Henry. **F** - AAAS 66 History of Sport in Africa. Glovsky. **Sp** - AAAS 111Y Introduction to African Literature and Film. Mushakavanhu. **Sp** - AAAS 112x Transition(s). Mushakavanhu. **F** - AAAS 127x Novel Nations in Africa and Latin America. Mushakavanhu. **F** - AAAS 185y Made to Feel: Race & Affect in the Americas. Henry. **Sp** - Anthropology 1716 Neoliberalism: Empire, Extraction, and the Re-making of the Global Social Order. Keshavjee. **F** - English 172m Immigrant Literature. Carpio. **Sp** - English 181al Introduction to Asian American Literature. Kim. **Sp** - EMR 154 Migrations, Refugees, and Human Rights. Bhabha. **F** - EMR 157 Techno-Orientalism: Asia, Technology, Futurity. Fernandez. **F** - EMR 179 Afro-Latinidades & World Diasporas. TBA. **Sp** - EMR 181 LatinX Medical Humanities. TBA. **Sp** - Folklore and Mythology 121 From Trad Lives to Trad Wives: Contemorary Homesteading. TBA. **Sp** - General Education 1042 Anime as Global Popular Culture. Yoda. **Sp** - 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. **Sp** - History 25 Native American and Indigenous Studies: An Introduction. Deloria. **Sp** - History 26 Latin America and the United States. Weld. **F** - History 57 The Making of the Modern Middle East. Bsheer. **Sp** - History 67 The United States and World Order since 1900. Manela. **F** - History 122 Scandal in the Colonies. McKenzie. **F** - History 188 Ecologies of American Empire: the United States and Global Environments, 1898 - 2000. Ruamcharoen. **Sp** - History and Literature 90hd Literatures of the Displaced: Diasporic Culture in the United States. Lam-Saili. **F** - History and Literature 90hn Soccer, Globalization, and Urban Life. Carvalho. **F** - WGS 1471 Art, Culture, and the Global Struggle for Black Liberation. Kothor. **Sp**