Minor in Race and Resistance Studies
The Race and Resistance Studies minor is an interdisciplinary program that provides undergraduate students with an approach to social justice to study race as a politically produced and contested process that begins with institutions, movements, and social problems, to examine racialized communities. The curriculum examines how race, gender, and class are co-constitutive factors of identity; how different groups are racialized in relation to one another; how social justice movements cohere and fall apart; and how groups have formed their own identities. The Race and Resistance Studies minor provides students with non-traditional, multi-ethnic, and comparative perspectives on national and transnational experiences of people of color within the U.S.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Identify the objectives of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies.
- Learn how to interpret cultural production by people of color and how it expresses agency.
- Apply the concept of intersectionality to the experiences of people of color.
- Apply principles of community-engaged scholarship and community service learning.
Race and Resistance Studies, Minor — 19 units minimum
The minor consists of 19 units minimum of undergraduate study.
- Only one third of the units or no more than approximately two courses can be taken credit/no credit for the minor.
- Students must have maintained at least a 2.0 grade point average in minor courses.
- At least half of all courses towards the minor degree must be upper-division at the 300 level or above.
Consistent with current University policy, courses for meeting the requirements of this minor may, as appropriate, be used simultaneously for meeting general education or credential requirements. Written declaration of the pursuit of the minor is not necessary prior to enrollment in any of its required or elective courses. Students should try to complete ETHS 100 or ETHS 110 before taking any further courses in the minor. These courses, however, may be taken concurrently. Additional courses may count towards the minor upon consultation with the Race and Resistance Studies undergraduate minor advisor.
All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Introductory Course (3 units)
Select one:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ETHS/RRS 100 | Introduction to Ethnic Studies | 3 |
| ETHS/RRS 110 | Critical Thinking and the Ethnic Studies Experience | 3 |
Core Courses (9 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Select one course from three different sections A through D below: | 9 | |
| Section A: History and Politics | ||
| All Power to the People: Comparative Freedom Movements of the "Sixties" | ||
| Race, Ethnicity and Power in America | ||
| Beyond Bars and Borders: Race and the Carceral State | ||
| Creativity, Decolonization, and Social Justice in Oceania | ||
| Race, Activism and Climate Justice | ||
RRS 350 | ||
| Reclaiming the Bay: Grassroots Struggle Against Racial Capitalism | ||
| National Security and the Racialization of Arabs and Muslims in North America | ||
| Race, Radicalism and Revolution | ||
| History of People of Color in the U.S. | ||
| Section B: Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts | ||
| Introduction to Pacific Islander Literature: How To Read An Ocean | ||
| Disrupting Science Fiction: Race, Gender, and Alternative Futures | ||
| Art and Cultural Practices of Oceania | ||
| Race, Sports, and Society | ||
| Sounds of Resistance: Race, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Revolution | ||
| Race, Public Art, and Creative Resistance | ||
| Our Stories: Literatures of Race and Resistance | ||
| Race and Comedy in the United States | ||
| Arab Media Images in America: Impact on Arab Americans | ||
| Pacific Islanders in Film: Re-Presenting Oceania Through an Indigenous Lens | ||
| Contemporary Arabic and Arab American Literature | ||
| Youth Culture, Race and Resistance | ||
| Section C: Gender and Sexuality | ||
| Decolonize Your Diet: Food Justice and Gendered Labor in Communities of Color | ||
| Queer Arabs in the U.S. | ||
| Queer and Trans Ethnic Studies | ||
RRS 460/COUN 450/SXS 460 | ||
| Women, Race, and Class | ||
| Race and Sexual Migration | ||
| Section D: Diasporas and Transnationalism | ||
| Islamophobia: Roots, Development, and Contestation of Hatred | ||
| Arab American Identity: Memory and Resistance | ||
| Palestine: Ethnic Studies Perspective | ||
| South Asian Diaspora | ||
| Gender and Modernity in the Muslim and Arab Worlds | ||
Community Service Learning (1-3 units)
Select One:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| RRS/SOC 410 | Grassroots Organizing for Change in Communities of Color | 3 |
| RRS 694 | Community Engaged Learning: Praxis in Race and Resistance Studies | 3 |
Elective Courses (6 units)
6 units of any RRS courses.