Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies – College of Professional & Global Education
60 Total Units Required
Minimum Number of Units in the Major: 42
This roadmap is a suggested plan of study and does not replace meeting with an advisor. Please note that students may need to adjust the actual sequence of courses based on course availability. Please consult an advisor in your major program for further guidance.
| First Semester | Units | |
|---|---|---|
| ETHS/RRS 100 | Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Major Core, D1, AERM, GP, SJ) | 3 |
| Health and Environment in Communities of Color (6 units) 1 | 3 | |
| Arts, Literature, and Community (6 units) 2 | 3 | |
| Program Elective (15 units) 3 | 3 | |
| SF State Studies or University Elective 4 | 3 | |
| Units | 15 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| ETHS 300GW | Writing in Ethnic Studies - GWAR (Major Core) | 3 |
| Program Elective (15 units) 3 | 3 | |
| History and Social Movements (6 units) 5 | 3 | |
| GE Area UD-B: Upper-Division Physical and/or Life Sciences (Consider SF State Studies Course) | 3 | |
| SF State Studies or University Elective | 3 | |
| Units | 15 | |
| Third Semester | ||
| Health and Environment in Communities of Color (6 units) 1 | 3 | |
| Arts, Literature, and Community (6 units) 2 | 3 | |
| Program Elective (15 units) 3 | 3 | |
| History and Social Movements (6 units) 5 | 3 | |
| SF State Studies or University Elective | 3 | |
| Units | 15 | |
| Fourth Semester | ||
| ETHS 580 | Senior Capstone for Online Degree in Ethnic Studies (Major Core) | 3 |
| Program Elective (15 units) - Take Two 3 | 6 | |
| GE Area UD-D: Upper-Division Social Sciences (Consider SF State Studies Course) | 3 | |
| SF State Studies or University Elective | 3 | |
| Units | 15 | |
| Total Units | 60 | |
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Health and Environment in Communities of Color (6 units)
Select two:
AA S 591 Asian American Community Health Issues (3 units) (UD-B, AERM, SJ)
AFRS 370 Health, Medicine, and Nutrition in the Black Community (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, ES, SJ)
AFRS 678 Urban Issues of Black Children and Youth (3 units)
AIS 450 American Indian Science (3 units)
AIS 520 Before the Wilderness: American Indian Ecology (3 units)
RRS 304 Decolonize Your Diet: Food Justice and Gendered Labor in Communities of Color (3 units) (UD-B, AERM, ES)
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Arts, Literature, and Community (6 units)
Select Two:
AA S 585 Asian American Religiosities (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, GP, SJ)
AFRS 326 Black Religion (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, SJ)
AFRS 645 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, GP, SJ)
AFRS 665 Black Journalism (3 units) (UD-C, AERM)
AIS 310 American Indian Religion and Philosophy (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, GP, SJ)
AIS 320 American Indian Music (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, SJ)
LTNS 530 Latina/os and the Media (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, SJ)
RRS 360 Our Stories: Literatures of Race and Resistance (3 units) (UD-C, AERM)
RRS 480 Youth Culture, Race and Resistance (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, SJ)
RRS 571 Women, Race, and Class (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, ES, GP, SJ)
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Program Electives (15 units)
Select Five:
AA S 210 History of Asians in the United States (3 units) (D2, USH, AERM)
AA S 211 Contemporary Asian Americans (3 units) (D1, AERM, SJ)
AA S 353 Filipina/o American Identities (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, SJ)
AFRS 101 Introduction to Africana Studies (3 units) (D1, AERM, SJ)
AFRS 200 Introduction to Black Psychology (3 units) (D1, AERM, GP, SJ)
AFRS 204 Black Creative Arts (3 units) (C1, AERM, GP, SJ)
AFRS 208 Introduction to African American History (3 units) (D2, USH, AERM, GP, SJ)
AFRS 210 Introduction to Africana Literature (3 units) (C2, AERM, SJ)
AFRS 266 Black Online: Cyberspace, Culture, and Community (3 units) (C2, AERM, GP, SJ)
AFRS 515 Black Family Studies (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, ES, SJ)
AIS 150 American Indian History in the United States (3 units) (D2, USH, AERM, SJ)
AIS 205 American Indians and U.S. Laws (3 units) (D3, USG/CSLG, AERM, SJ)
AIS 235 American Indians: Image and Issues in the Mass Media (3 units) (C1, AERM, SJ)
AIS 250 American Indian Populations and Colonial Diseases (3 units)
AIS 410 Perspectives of Native California Indians (3 units) (AERM, ES)
RRS 110/ETHS 110 Critical Thinking and the Ethnic Studies Experience (3 units) (A3, AERM)
RRS 240 All Power to the People: Comparative Freedom Movements of the "Sixties" (3 units) (D2, USH, AERM, SJ)
RRS 250 Race, Ethnicity and Power in America (3 units) (D3, USG/CSLG, AERM, SJ)
RRS 276 Race, Activism and Climate Justice (3 units) (B2, AERM, ES, GP, SJ)
RRS 280 Disrupting Science Fiction: Race, Gender, and Alternative Futures (3 units) (C2, AERM)
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Complementary Studies
Bachelor of Arts students must complete at least 12 units of Complementary Studies outside of the primary prefix for the major. (Note: Students may not use an alternate prefix that is cross-listed with the primary prefix for the major.) Ethnic Studies majors may satisfy this requirement by taking any 12 units outside the Ethnic Studies subject codes (AA S, AFRS, AIS, ETHS, LTNS, and RRS).
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History and Social Movements (6 units)
Select Two:
AA S 380 Cambodians in the United States (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, GP, SJ)
AA S 540 South Asians in the United States (3 units) (UD-C, AERM, GP, SJ)
AA S 570 Southeast Asians in the United States (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, GP, SJ)
AFRS 350/AIS 350/LTNS 355 Black Indians in the Americas (3 units) (UD-D, AERM)
AIS 400 American Indian Education (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, GP, SJ)
AIS 410 Perspectives of Native California Indians (3 units) (AERM, ES)
AIS 420/WGS 420 Native Genders and Feminism (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, SJ)
AIS 440/SXS 440/WGS 440 Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, GP, SJ)
AIS 460 Power and Politics in American Indian History (3 units) (UD-D, USH, AERM, SJ)
LTNS 460 Central Americans of the U.S.: History and Heritage (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, GP, SJ)
LTNS 465 Mexican American and Chicana/x/o History (3 units) (AERM, GP)
LTNS 467 Caribbeans in the U.S.: History and Heritage (3 units) (UD-D, GP, SJ)
RRS 600/HIST 466 History of People of Color in the U.S. (3 units) (UD-D, USH, AERM, SJ)
RRS 625 Mixed Race Studies: A Comparative Focus (3 units) (UD-D, AERM, SJ)