Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies Minor

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This minor may not be paired with the CRES major. This minor may be paired with the American Studies major, provided 3 or more units of the field of concentration required in the major do not overlap. This minor may be paired with the Biology (Alternate Program) major, provided 3 or more units of the nonscience field of concentration do not overlap.

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 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 341 - Studies in American Literature -only when offered as “Literature of Reconstruction”
ENG 356 - Studies in African American Literature -only when offered as “African American Modernism”
ENG 370 - Studies in Cultural Contacts -only when offered as “Modernity and Memory in the Indian Ocean,” or as “Literature After Empire”
ENG 381 - Film and New Media Studies -only when offered as “Black American Cinema”
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 259 - Afro-Asian Musical Engagements
MUS 360 - Music and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1865-1965
SPAN 382 - Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Critical Theory

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 211 - Afro-Contemporary Dance
DANC 260 - Dances of Bali, Indonesia
DANC 362 - Dance & Ecology: Ethnographic Approaches
DANC 364 - Ancestry in Motion: A Dunham Technique Immersion
ENG 201 - Introduction to Narrative -only when offered as “Border Writing: Displacement, Memory, & Narration”
ENG 205 - Introduction to Fiction -only when offered as “Decolonization and the Novel in Africa,”
ENG 242 - Introduction to Drama -only when offered as “Black British Playwrights”
ENG 355 - Twentieth-Century Jewish Literature
ENG 356 - Studies in African American Literature
ENG 366 - Studies in Poetry -only when offered as “Remixing the Canon”
ENG 370 - Studies in Cultural Contacts -only when offered as “The Palestinians”
FREN 363 - Introduction to Francophone Literature
GER 355 - Twentieth-Century Jewish Literature
LIT 300 - Israeli Cinema: Myth, Memory, and History
LIT 327 - Chinese Inhumanities: Construction of the Other in Chinese Literature
LIT 346 - Twentieth-Century Jewish Literature
LIT 360 - Soviet World Literature: International, Multinational, National
LIT 367 - Envisioning Modernity: Central Asia and the Caucasus through Literature, Film, and the Arts
LIT 396 - Decolonial Theory and Practice in Latin America
MUS 221 - Form and Listening
MUS 355 - Black Women’s Music as Intellectual History
RUSS 325 - Soviet World Literature: International, Multinational, National
RUSS 367 - Envisioning Modernity: Central Asia and the Caucasus through Literature, Film, and the Arts
SPAN 386 - Decolonial Theory and Practice in Latin America