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.
- Describe historical, cultural, economic, and comparative approaches to the study of race, class, gender, nation, and sexuality.
Race and Resistance Studies, Minor — 18 units minimum
- Only one third of the units or no more than approximately two courses can be taken credit/no credit for the minor.
- At least half of all courses towards the minor degree must be upper-division at the 300 level or above.
- Students should try to complete ETHS 100 or ETHS 110 before taking any further courses in the minor.
- 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 (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 Course (3 units)
3 units of any RRS courses.