Race and Ethnic Studies

Minimum number of credits to complete the minor: 20

Minimum cumulative GPA required to graduate: 2.0

School: School of Arts and Sciences

Department: Humanities

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The Race and Ethnic Studies minor offers students an opportunity to center issues of race and ethnicity as a field of study. Students explore how ideas about race and ethnicity function in society and have shaped history, politics, and economics. Courses focus on various debates surrounding race, ethnicity, racism, and biases, and how they intersect with gender, sexuality, class, and nation.

Race and Ethnic Studies classes examine the role of ideas and biases about race and ethnicity in shaping communities, movements, individual and collective experiences and identities. The minor not only highlights the contributions of minoritized peoples to history and society, but it provides cutting-edge training in understanding and working with various groups of people - knowledge that is in high demand by 21st century employers.

Minor Requirements

A minimum of five courses (20 credits) are required: one core course and four elective courses.

Required Course

Complete the following required course:

WGS 2010 - Introduction to Race and Ethnic Studies Credits: 4

Required Electives

Choose four courses (16 credits) from the following. Note that three of the four electives should be at the 3000 level.

CRM 3380 - Race, Class and Crime Credits: 4
ENG 3870 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance Credits: 4
GCS 1900 - Introduction to Latinx Studies Credits: 4
HDE 2130 - Ethics, Identity, and Society Credits: 4
HIS 3365 - The History of Muslim Communities, 600-1600 Credits: 4
HIS 3439 - Sugar and Revolutions: Atlantic World History, 1400-1800 Credits: 4
PHL 2750 - Thinking through Race and Racism Credits: 4
PHL 3010 - Human Rights: Theory and Practice Credits: 4
POL 3161 - Politics of Immigration Credits: 4
POL 3162 - Citizenship Rights, Politics, and Law Credits: 4
RTS 2990 - Special Topics in Religious Studies Credits: 4
SOC 2000 - Social Inequality Credits: 4
SOC 3651 - Sociology of Immigration Credits: 4
WGS 2200 - Social Movements, Past and Present Credits: 4
WGS 2310 - Nontraditional Leaders Credits: 4
WGS 2880 - Gender, Race, and War Credits: 4
WGS 3000 - Thinking Green: Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice Credits: 4
WGS 3110 - Global Women’s Issues Credits: 4
WGS 3280 - Racism and Antiracism: Global perspectives Credits: 4
WGS 3420 - Gender, Race, and the Media Credits: 4
WGS 3720 - Gender, Immigration, and the Law Credits: 4

Notes on the Minor

Students who also major or minor in Women’s and Gender Studies cannot double-count more than two courses toward the minor in Race and Ethnic Studies.
WGS 1010 Gender and Society cannot count for both WGS majors/minors and the minor in Race and Ethnic Studies.