Race and Ethnic Studies Minor

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The minor in Race and Ethnic Studies offers an interdisciplinary curriculum that enables students to think critically about the enduring role of race and ethnicity in social, political and economic arrangements in the U.S. and beyond. With this minor, you will learn to see race and ethnicities as sites of power, resistance and transformation.

For additional programs and courses in this department, see Race and Ethnic Studies

Minor Requirements

A minimum of 20 credit hours, including:

Core Courses

RAES 100 - Introduction to Race and Ethnic Studies
RAES 350 - Critical Theories of Race and Ethnicity

Elective Courses

A minimum of 12 credit hours from the following that must include courses from at least two departments outside of the student’s major

ANTH 325 - Indigenous Peoples, State and Order
ANTH 355 - Native Nations of North America: Homelands, Reservations and Urban Indian Communities
ANTH 365 - Mayas, Aztecs and Their Neighbors: Heart of the Earth
ARTH 312 - African American Art
ARTH 314 - Latin American Art
EDUC 411 - Equity and Access in Systems of Education
ENGL 232 - Black Narrative
ENGL 260 - Black Lives Matter: Race and Writing
ENGL 322 - Cosmopolitan 20th–21st Century England: Global Identities in British Literature and Culture
HIST 112 - African American History
HIST 114 - History of the American West
HIST 116 - Lincoln and the Civil War Era
HIST 270 - India, Empire and Violence
HIST 310 - Immigration and U.S. Ethnic Identity
MKTG 120 - Consumerism and Black Culture
POLS 337 - From Slavery to Prisons: Race and the Carceral State
POLS 338 - Black Lives Matter: Making A Movement
SGBS 311 - Philosophy of Race and Gender
SOCI 211 - Race/Ethnicity: Conflict and Change

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Race and Ethnic Studies Minor

Minor Requirements

Core Courses

Elective Courses