Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies Minor

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Course Name		Term	Completed?	Group Req.
Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Advisor Name:_______________________	Catalog: 2025-26 Catalog Program: Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies Minor
Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies Minor (CRES Minor requirements are listed below. Use the “Programs” link above for any of the CRES major requirements.) Students must complete all of the following requirements in addition to the requirements for a bachelor of arts major to graduate with this minor. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.
Minor Requirements: Total minor units: 5
CRES 300 - Junior Seminar Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, and completion of or concurrent enrollment in one of CRES 100-469 (CRES Course List)
Four Units of Disciplinary Courses:
One from the following CRES-foundational courses (outside of the student’s major field of study):
Course Name		Term	Completed?	Group Req.
DANC 112 - Introduction to Contemporary Dance: Cross-Cultural Contexts
DANC 265 - Dances of Africa and the African Diaspora
DANC 365 - Dance and Identity on the Global Stage
ENG 303 - American Studies Seminar -only when offered as “Jews across the Americas”, Prerequisite(s): Jews across the Americas: Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher; or REL 151; or any course in Jewish literature or history.
ENG 341 - Studies in American Literature -only when offered as “Literature of Reconstruction” Prerequisite(s): Humanity at Sea: Personhood from Moby Dick to Moby Doll: Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher Jewish American Graphic Novels: Two ENG or LIT courses at the 200 level or higher, or ART 251 Literature of Reconstruction: “Postbellum - Pre-Harlem”: Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher Nature Writing, Ecocriticism, and the Problem of Social Justice: Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher, demonstrated interest in American studies or environmental studies
ENG 370 - Studies in Cultural Contacts -only when offered as “Modernity and Memory in the Indian Ocean” Prerequisite(s): Modernity and Memory in the Indian Ocean: Two ENG or LIT courses at the 200 level or higher The Palestinians: Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher
LIT 398 - Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Critical Theory
MUS 150 - The Cultural Study of Music
MUS 254 - Africa in the Black Musical Imagination
MUS 360 - Music and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1865-1965 Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
SPAN 382 - Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Critical Theory Prerequisite(s): For Spanish credit: SPAN 321 or equivalent
One additional unit, either from the courses listed above or from the following (outside of the student’s major field of study):
Course Name		Term	Completed?	Group Req.
CHIN 327 - Chinese Inhumanities: Construction of the Other in Chinese Literature Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. For Chinese credit, CHIN 212 or equivalent.
DANC 211 - Afro-Contemporary Dance
DANC 362 - Dance & Ecology: Ethnographic Approaches
ENG 201 - Introduction to Narrative -only when offered as “South Asian Women Writers” or “Border Writing: Displacement, Memory, & Narration”
ENG 205 - Introduction to Fiction -only when offered as “Decolonization and the Novel in Africa,”
ENG 213 - American Poetry -only when offered as “Ethnopoetics,”
ENG 242 - Introduction to Drama -only when offered as “Black British Playwrights”
ENG 333 - Studies in Fiction -only when offered as “Postcolonial Hauntings,” Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher
ENG 355 - Twentieth-Century Jewish Literature Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
ENG 366 - Studies in Poetry -only when offered as “Remixing the Canon” Prerequisite(s): Sounds of Lyric: ENG 211, ENG 212, or ENG 213 All other topics: Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher
ENG 370 - Studies in Cultural Contacts -only when offered as “The Palestinians” Prerequisite(s): Modernity and Memory in the Indian Ocean: Two ENG or LIT courses at the 200 level or higher The Palestinians: Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher
FREN 363 - Introduction to Francophone Literature Prerequisite(s): FREN 212 or equivalent
GER 355 - Twentieth-Century Jewish Literature Prerequisite(s): For German credit: GER 212. For English or Literature credit: sophomore standing.
LIT 300 - Israeli Cinema: Myth, Memory, and History
LIT 327 - Chinese Inhumanities: Construction of the Other in Chinese Literature Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
LIT 346 - Twentieth-Century Jewish Literature Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
LIT 360 - Soviet World Literature: International, Multinational, National
LIT 367 - Envisioning Modernity: Central Asia and the Caucasus through Literature, Film, and the Arts
LIT 383 - Arctic Awakenings
LIT 396 - Decolonial Theory and Practice in Latin America
MUS 355 - Black Women’s Music as Intellectual History
RUSS 325 - Soviet World Literature: International, Multinational, National Prerequisite(s): For Russian credit: RUSS 212 or equivalent.
RUSS 367 - Envisioning Modernity: Central Asia and the Caucasus through Literature, Film, and the Arts Prerequisite(s): For Russian credit: RUSS 212 or equivalent.
RUSS 394 - Arctic Awakenings Prerequisite(s): For Russian credit: RUSS 212 or equivalent.
SPAN 386 - Decolonial Theory and Practice in Latin America Prerequisite(s): For Spanish credit: SPAN 321 or equivalent
One from the following CRES-foundational courses (outside of the student’s major field of study):
Course Name		Term	Completed?	Group Req.
ANTH 306 - #CentralAmericanTwitter: Continuity and Rupture in Central American Indigenous Histories Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211
ANTH 343 - African Pasts, African Futures Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211
ANTH 363 - Race and Transnational China Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211
ANTH 371 - Race and Caste Prerequisite(s): ANTH 211
HIST 315 - Defining and Defying Difference: Race, Ethnicity, and Empire Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and HUM 110
HIST 334 - Race and the Politics of Decolonization Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
HIST 369 - Race and the Law in American History Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
HIST 388 - Race and Ethnicity in the Andes Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
HIST 390 - Music and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1865-1965 Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
REL 226 - Islam in America Prerequisite(s): HUM 110, sophomore standing
REL 259 - American Studies Seminar: Jews across the Americas Prerequisite(s): Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher; or REL 151; or any course in Jewish literature or history.
REL 327 - Erasure and Location of Muslims in Western Humanities Prerequisite(s): HUM 110 and sophomore standing
REL 351 - Bible and Ethnicity: Deuteronomy and Mestizaje Prerequisite(s): REL 152
REL 354 - Bible, Race, and Empire Prerequisite(s): REL 141, REL 151, REL 152, or REL 215
SOC 342 - Social Technologies of Belonging Prerequisite(s): SOC 211
SOC 348 - Race, Economy, Public Policy Prerequisite(s): SOC 211
One additional unit, either from the courses listed above or from the following (outside of the student’s major field of study):
Course Name		Term	Completed?	Group Req.
ANTH 333 - Local and Global Indigenous Archaeologies Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211
ANTH 334 - Queer Politics and Pleasures Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211
ANTH 337 - Black Ecologies in the Americas Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211
ANTH 347 - Outbreak, Emergency, Pandemic: Anthropology of Health Systems Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211
ANTH 364 - Global Tibet through Film Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211
ANTH 411 - The Politics of World Making: Semiotics, Pragmatics, Performance Prerequisite(s): ANTH 211
HIST 205 - The Twentieth-Century Middle East through Music
HIST 207 - Gender in the Middle East
HIST 256 - Migration Histories in the British Imperial World
HIST 303 - The History of the Sahara Prerequisite(s): HUM 110
REL 151 - Introduction to Judaism
REL 335 - South Asian Religious Nationalisms Prerequisite(s): REL 131 or REL 132
REL 364 - Religion in the U.S. - Mexico Borderlands Prerequisite(s): HUM 110
SOC 280 - Social Movements Prerequisite(s): SOC 211
SOC 326 - Science and Social Difference Prerequisite(s): SOC 211
SOC 362 - Culture and Inequality in Contemporary Communities Prerequisite(s): SOC 211
SOC 371 - Military and Society Prerequisite(s): SOC 211
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Minor Requirements:

Four Units of Disciplinary Courses:

One from the following CRES-foundational courses (outside of the student’s major field of study):

One additional unit, either from the courses listed above or from the following (outside of the student’s major field of study):

One from the following CRES-foundational courses (outside of the student’s major field of study):

One additional unit, either from the courses listed above or from the following (outside of the student’s major field of study):