Race and Ethnic Relations Concentration

Overview

Undergraduate Concentration
Race and Ethnic Relations is an interdisciplinary concentration that enables students to examine relations within and between racial and ethnic groups primarily in the United States. The concentration brings together a wide range of courses in the humanities and social sciences that allow students to compare experiences across racial and ethnic groups. The concentration also allows students to compare the U.S. experience with that of other racially and ethnically diverse countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, past and present.

Requirements

Students fulfilling the Race and Ethnic Relations concentration are required to take a minimum of six courses. Five of the six courses must be U.S.-based courses; one must focus on a country or region outside the United States.

1. One course must be HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity  , a humanities course. This course serves as the introductory course for the concentration.
2. Two additional courses in the humanities (classics, English, foreign languages and literature, history). One of these courses must be a literature course.
3. Three courses in the social sciences (cultural and global processes, geography, government, sociology).
4. A minimum of three courses must be at the 200 level. One course must be an advanced seminar approved by the student’s advisor. The advanced seminar serves as the capstone experience.
5. One course whose focus is a country or region other than the United States.

Program Faculty

María Acosta Cruz, Ph.D.
Kiran Asher, Ph.D.
Belen Atienza, Ph.D
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Ramon Borges-Mendes, Ph.D.
Paul Burke, Ph.D.
Carol D’Lugo, Ph.D.
Mark Davidson, Ph.D.
Debórah Dwork, Ph.D.
Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Anita Hausermann Fabos, Ph.D.
Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
William J. Fisher, Ph.D.
Everett Fox, Ph.D.
Janette Greenwood, Ph.D.
Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.
Lene Jensen, Ph.D.
Fern Johnson, Ph.D.
Esther Jones, Ph.D.
Lisa Kasmer, PhD.
Willem Klooster, Ph.D.
Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D.
Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D.
Stephen M. Levin, Ph.D.
Deborah Martin, Ph.D.
Constance Montross, Ph.D.
Ousmane Power_Greene, Ph.D.
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Amy Richter, Ph.D.
Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.
Robert Ross, Ph.D.
Marianne Sarkis, Ph.D.
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
Ora Szekely, Ph.D.
Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D.
Johanna Vollahrdt, Ph.D.

Introductory Course

• HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity

Humanities Courses

• CLAS 262 - Jews and Christians in the Ancient World
• CMLT 130 - The National Imagination
• CMLT 174 - Islands in the Stream: Puerto Rico and the French Antilles
• CMLT 208 - Her Story: History and Fiction of Caribbean Women Writers
• ENG 148 - Memoirs from the Borderlands
• ENG 182 - African American Literature I
• ENG 183 - African American Literature II
• ENG 215 - Language and Culture in the United States
• ENG 238 - Contemporary Latino/a Literature
• ENG 257 - Language Policy: U.S. and E.U.
• ENG 263 - National Trauma: Studies in British Romanticism
• ENG 275 - Fictions of Empire: Studies in Global English Literature
• ENG 276 - Ethnic America: Literary and Theoretical Perspectives
• ENG 279 - Fictions of Asian America
• ENG 291 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
• HIST 112 - African American History to 1865
• HIST 113 - American Urban History
• 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 216 - Special Topics: African American Internationalism
• HIST 217 - Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, 1865-1877
• HIST 222 - History of the American South
• HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement
• HIST 227 - The Caribbean in the Era of Slavery, 1492-1886
• HIST 234 - History of Racism in Modern Europe
• HIST 235 - The Atlantic World
• HIST 241 - Jewish Popular Culture
• HIST 268 - Special Topics
• HIST 273 - Life Under Occupation
• ID 120 - Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
• ID 227 - Ideologies of Race in Development
• ID 269 - Capitalism, Nature Development
• MUSC 151 - Jazz History
• SPAN 117 - Field Work in the Latino Community
• SPAN 131 - Readings in Hispanic Literatures
• SPAN 239 - Hispanic Caribbean Cultures
• SPAN 245 - Hispanic American Short Story

Social Science Courses

• GEOG 020 - American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places
• GEOG 090 - Native Americans, Land and Natural Resources
• GEOG 179 - Global and Local Environmental Justice
• GEOG 248 - Social Justice and the City
• GEOG 280 - Urban Ecology: Cities as Ecosystems
• HS 204 - Freedom Dreams: Global Freedom Struggles from Decolonization to the Present
• PSCI 158 - African American Politics
• PSCI 171 - Urban Politics: People, Power and Conflict in U.S. Cities
• PSCI 174 - Middle East Politics
• PSCI 214 - Mass Murder and Genocide Under Communism
• PSCI 219 - Politics and Development in Southern Africa
• PSCI 230 - The Armenian Genocide
• PSCI 264 - Race and Representation
• PSCI 265 - Black Political Thought
• PSCI 282 - Housing Policies and Politics - Capstone Seminar
• PSCI 290 - U.S. - Latin American Relations - Capstone Seminar
• PSYC 156 - Cultural Psychology
• PSYC 157 - Cultural Psychology of Urban Living
• PSYC 225 - Research on Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
• SOC 125 - Cities and Suburbs (formerly Soc247)
• SOC 252 - Race and American Society
• SOC 260 - Roots and Routes: Immigrants, Diasporas and Travel
• SOC 265 - Social Movements: Quest for Justice
• SOC 293 - Diasporas and Immigrant Cultures: Theory, Art and Media

Race and Ethnicity Outside the United States Courses

• CLAS 262 - Jews and Christians in the Ancient World
• CMLT 130 - The National Imagination
• CMLT 174 - Islands in the Stream: Puerto Rico and the French Antilles
• CMLT 208 - Her Story: History and Fiction of Caribbean Women Writers
• ENG 254 - Still Spaces–East Meets West: Contemplative Practice in the Classroom
• HIST 175 - Holocaust: Agency and Action
• HIST 234 - History of Racism in Modern Europe
• HIST 268 - Special Topics
• HIST 273 - Life Under Occupation
• ID 120 - Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
• PSCI 173 - Introduction to Latin-American Politics
• PSCI 178 - South Africa: History and Contemporary Politics
• PSCI 230 - The Armenian Genocide
• PSCI 290 - U.S. - Latin American Relations - Capstone Seminar
• SOC 260 - Roots and Routes: Immigrants, Diasporas and Travel
• SPAN 239 - Hispanic Caribbean Cultures
• SPAN 245 - Hispanic American Short Story