Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies Minor

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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

Four Units of Disciplinary Courses:

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

DANC 241 - Dancing Latinx America
DANC 270 - Dance, Race, and Gender
DANC 365 - Contemporary Global Dance
ENG 303 - American Studies Seminar -only when offered as “Jews across the Americas”,
ENG 356 - Studies in African American Literature -only when offered as “Douglass and Delany”,
ENG 370 - Studies in Cultural Contacts -only when offered as “Modernity and Memory in the Indian Ocean”
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

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

CHIN 327 - Chinese Inhumanities: Construction of the Other in Chinese Literature
DANC 265 - Dances of Africa and the African Diaspora
DANC 362 - Dance Ethnography
ENG 201 - Introduction to Narrative -only when offered as “South Asian Women Writers,”
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 333 - Studies in Fiction -only when offered as “Postcolonial Hauntings,”
ENG 341 - Studies in American Literature -only when offered as “American Pastoral,”
ENG 356 - Studies in African American Literature
ENG 384 - Poetry and History -only when offered as “Poetics of Resistance and Resilience”
FREN 363 - Introduction to Francophone Literature
GER 358 - Representing Genocide
MUS 142 - Latin American Popular Music
MUS 221 - Music History I: Unexpected Encounters in Early Modern Europe
RUSS 365 - Kiev, Odessa, and the Steppes: Ukrainian Imagination and Russian Literature
RUSS 387 - Jewishness and Cinema
RUSS 394 - Arctic Awakenings
SPAN 362 - Spanish Migrations
SPAN 365 - Literature, State, and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America