Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
416 Humanities I
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http://humanities.ucsc.edu/
Lower-Division Courses
10. Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: An Introduction. F
Examines the concept of race, followed by an investigation of colorblindness, multiculturalism, and post-racialism. Race and ethnicity are examined as historically formulated in relationship to the concepts of gender, sexuality, class, nationalism, indigeneity, citizenship, immigration, and inequality. Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and C1 requirements. (General Education Code(s): ER.) N. Mitchell
70S. Introduction to the Sikhs (2 credits). *
Introduces the Sikh community, including origins, history, belief system, and contemporary issues. Other topics include: Sikh music, art, literature, and aspects of Sikh society. Attention paid to the Sikh diaspora in the United States and in California in particular, including comparative perspectives with other minority communities. (Formerly Humanities 70S.) N. Singh
94. Group Tutorial. F,W,S
A lower-division group tutorial, led by a faculty member, that focuses on various problems within critical race and ethnic studies. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and undergraduate student participants. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethic studies majors. The Staff
94F. Group Tutorial (2 credits). F,W,S
A program of independent study arranged between a group of students and a faculty instructor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
99. Tutorial. F,W,S
Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
Upper-Division Courses
100. Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity. W
Examines race and ethnicity as categories of lived identity intersecting with gender, sexuality, class, and culture; historical discourses of difference underwriting social inequalities and movements to redress those inequalities; and concepts critical to the understanding and reshaping of power and privilege. Prerequisite(s): course 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level and Composition requirements. (General Education Code(s): ER.) N. Ahuja
101. Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. *
Examines how scholars and activists produce knowledge in critical race and ethnic studies. Interrogates key terms to build a foundation and literacy in research methods. The course is project-based; and requires work on a team. Prerequisite(s): course 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. The Staff
110Q. Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture. F
From Janet Mock to Young M.A., queerness has become hypervisible in Black popular culture--but at what cost? Using music, television, and social media as central texts, students investigate the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race in public life. (Also offered as Feminist Studies 110Q. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): IM.) The Staff
140A. Africa: How to Make a Continent. *
Introduces the histories of exploration, museum collection, and photography that shape historical and contemporary ideas about race, culture, and place in Africa. (Also offered as History of Consciousness 140A. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): CC.) A. De Morais
185A. Race, Gender, and Science. *
Examines how science as epistemology and its accompanying practices participate in, create, and are created by understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and nation. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors. Other majors by permission. The Staff
190. Senior Seminar. W
Required research seminar for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies majors in which students write a substantial research paper or a series of short papers. May be organized around a specific theme at the instructor's discretion. Prerequisite(s): courses 10 and 100, and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior CRES majors Enrollment limited to 25. N. Ahuja
192. Directed Student Teaching. F,W,S
Teaching of a lower-division seminar by an upper-division student under faculty supervision. (See course 42.) The Staff
194. Group Tutorial. F,W,S
Group tutorial, led by a faculty member, that focuses on various problems within critical race and ethnic studies. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and undergraduate student participants. Enrollment restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
199. Tutorial. S
Students submit a petition to the sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
199F. Tutorial (2 credits). F,W,S
Individual study in areas approved by sponsoring instructors. May not be counted toward upper-division major requirements. Student submits petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
Graduate Courses
243. Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Knowledge. *
Course takes as its central topic the institutional politics of feminist and critical race knowledges in the post-1960s United States university. Considers these fields' complex and contradictory relation to disciplinarity, the university's primary or default mode of arranging and legitimizing knowledge formations. (Also offered as Feminist Studies 243. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. N. Mitchell
Revised: 07/15/18
