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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Concentration
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Overview
Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) is an interdisciplinary concentration that brings together a wide range of courses in the humanities and social sciences with a comparative critical focus on racial and ethnic formations, relations, and experiences. The CRES concentrator engages with the ways race and ethnicity have been and continue to be powerful social and political forces, and how they intersect with other structures of identity formation, such as class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and legal status. The concentration allows students to compare U.S. experiences along the racial and ethnic axes with those of other racially and ethnically diverse countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, past and present.
Requirements
Students fulfilling the Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies concentration are required to take a minimum of six courses that carry the CRES attribute, including at least two courses in the humanities and two courses in the social sciences. At least one course must focus on race and ethnicity within the United States, and at least one must have a non-U.S. focus.
The undergraduate concentration requirements are distributed over three components as follows:
1. One Comparative Course that offers a comparative perspective on race and/or ethnicity.
2. Four Elective Courses selected from both the humanities and the social sciences. At least two electives must be at the 200-level.
3. One Advanced Seminar Course approved by the student’s adviser.
Comparative Courses
The Comparative Courses in CRES introduce students to comparative perspectives on race and/or ethnicity either within or outside the United States.
Students may select from any the following Comparative Courses to fulfill this requirement:
Elective Courses
Elective Courses in CRES are intended to expose students to a breadth of disciplinary perspectives on race and/or ethnic studies. Courses carrying the CRES attribute are offered in the Departments of English; Geography; History; International Development and Social Change; Language, Literature and Culture; Political Science; Psychology; Sociology; and Visual and Performing Arts.
*Always check the course grid for new CRES courses each semester. Note that special topics or capstone courses in other departments may carry an CRES attribute only when the topic is relevant to the CRES concentration (for example, HIST 268 - Special Topics).
Elective Courses offered within the last 2 Academic Years include:
Humanities Courses
- CMLT 130 - The National Imagination
- CMLT 136 - Afrofuturism and Social Justice
- CMLT 208 - Caribbean Women Writers
- CRES 230 - Difficult Dialogues on Race and Racism
- EDUC 291 - An Exploration of Multicultural Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- ENG 165 - American Ethnic Writers
- ENG 182 - African American Literature I
- ENG 183 - African American Literature II
- ENG 238 - Contemporary Latino/a Literature
- ENG 263 - Traumatic Tales: National Trauma in Romantic Literature
- ENG 276 - Ethnic America: Literature, Theory, Politics
- ENG 279 - Fictions of Asian America
- ENG 293 - Special Topics in African American Literature
- GERM 286 - German-Jewish Culture and Modern Multiculturalism
- HGS 110 - Antisemitism and Racism in the Modern World
- HGS 268 - Special Topics in Genocide
- HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity
- HIST 044 - Picking up the Gun: A History of Violence in African American Social and Political Movements
- HIST 112 - African American History to 1865
- HIST 114 - African-American History, 1865-Present
- HIST 152 - Jews in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
- HIST 153 - Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
- HIST 175 - Holocaust: Agency and Action
- HIST 206 - Africans in the Americas, 1500-1888
- HIST 214 - The American Civil War
- HIST 220 - The Black Radical Tradition
- HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement
- HIST 235 - The Atlantic World
- ID 121 - Culture, Health, and Development: What Makes Us Sick?
- ID 214 - Education and Youth in a Global Context
- ID 227 - Ideologies of Race in Development
- ID 265 - Global Issues in Education
- ID 276 - Adolescent Girls and International Development
- ID 283 - Cultures of Exile
- ID 291 - Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging
- IDND 140 - Race, Health, and Social Justice in United States History
- IDND 200 - Advanced Topics in Gender, Race, and Area Studies
- SPAN 131 - Social Change in Hispanic Literature
- SPAN 245 - Latin American Short Genres
- SOC 254 - Class and Status in Black American Life
Social Science Courses
- CRES 220 - Special Topics in CRES Soc Science
- CRES 230 - Difficult Dialogues on Race and Racism
- EDUC 152 - Complexities of Urban Schooling
- EDUC 153 - Participatory (Action) Research with Youth
- EDUC 227 - Culture, Language, and Education
- EDUC 254 - Education in Film: Media Representations of Race, Class, Gender & Schooling
- EDUC 272 - Racism and Educational Inequality in the Lives of Youth in Urban Schools
- EDUC 281 - Critical Pedagogies
- EDUC 291 - An Exploration of Multicultural Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- GEOG 020 - American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places
- GEOG 090 - Native Americans, Land and Natural Resources
- GEOG 248 - Social Justice and the City
- ID 227 - Ideologies of Race in Development
- ID 283 - Cultures of Exile
- ID 291 - Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging
- IDND 200 - Advanced Topics in Gender, Race, and Area Studies
- PSCI 104 - Politics of Ethnicity and Identity
- PSCI 173 - Latin-American Politics
- PSCI 174 - Middle East Politics
- PSCI 209 - Minority Political Behavior
- PSCI 214 - Mass Murder and Genocide Under Communism
- PSCI 217 - Latino Politics in the U.S.
- PSCI 287 - Refugees, Migrants, and the Politics of Displacement
- PSCI 288 - Immigration, Identity, and Diversity Politics in the US
- PSCI 290 - U.S. - Latin American Relations - Capstone Seminar
- PSYC 156 - Cultural Psychology
- PSYC 171 - Social Psychology of Intergroup Violence, Oppression, and Liberation
- PSYC 203 - Research in Stigma, Intersectionality, and Health
- PSYC 210 - Research on Ideology and Violence
- PSYC 225 - Research on Collective Victimization and Oppression
- PSYC 232 - Research in Community
- PSYC 240 - Race and Racism: Theory and Experiences
- PSYC 241 - The Psychology of Resistance
- PSYC 245 - TRUE CRIME: Gender, Race, and Sexuality as Lenses
- PSYC 250 - Psychology of Power and Privilege
- PSYC 264 - Social and Cultural Psychology of Genocides
- PSYC 269 - Psychology of Inequality
- PSYC 278 - The Aftermath of Intergroup Violence: Social Psychological Perspectives
- PSYC 281 - Understanding and Addressing Mental Healthcare Disparities in the U.S.
- PSYC 288 - Coping with Collective Violence and Oppression
- SOC 125 - Cities and Suburbs
- SOC 130 - Genocide
- SOC 137 - Race and Ethnicity Across Borders: Comparing the Local and Global
- SOC 203 - American Jewish Life
- SOC 208 - Class, Status and Power
- SOC 102 - Race and Autobiography
- SOC 260 - Immigrants and Immigration: Innovation, Creativity and Culture
- SOC 265 - Activism, Protest, and Social Movements
Advanced Seminar Courses
The Advanced Seminar Course is intended to serve as a culminating research experience that allows students to synthesize the knowledge and methodologies accumulated throughout their CRES experience
*Courses from the Comparative and Elective Course lists may fulfill the Advanced Seminar Course requirement with permission from the student’s adviser. Note that special topics or capstone courses in other departments may also carry an CRES attribute only when the topic is relevant to the CRES concentration (for example, HIST 268 - Special Topics). Always check the course grid for new CRES courses each semester.
Suggested Advanced Seminar Courses include, but are not limited to:
Program Faculty
María Acosta Cruz, Ph.D.
Belen Atienza, Ph.D
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Ramon Borges-Mendes, Ph.D.
Esteban Cardemil, Ph.D.
Mark Davidson, Ph.D.
Eric DeMeulenaere, Ph.D., Director
Debórah Dwork, Ph.D.
Anita Hausermann Fabos, Ph.D.
Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Everett Fox, Ph.D.
Janette Greenwood, Ph.D.
Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.
Esther Jones, Ph.D.
Lisa Kasmer, PhD.
Willem Klooster, Ph.D.
Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D.
Stephen M. Levin, Ph.D.
Olga Litvak, Ph.D.
Deborah Martin, Ph.D.
Drew McCoy, Ph.D.
Nicole Overstreet, Ph.D.
Jie Park, Ph.D.
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Ousmane Power-Greene, Ph.D.
Amy Richter, Ph.D.
Raphael Rogers, Ph.D.
Marianne Sarkis, Ph.D.
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
Ora Szekely, Ph.D.
Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
Ozden Ulug, Ph.D.
Johanna Vollahrdt, Ph.D.
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.
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