Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies with a Concentration in Religion

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Committee Page: Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies

Program Learning Outcomes: Comparative Race & Ethnicity Studies

This major may not be paired with the CRES Minor or the Religion Minor .

Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

College Requirements:

Degree Requirements (2025-26)

Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.

Major Requirements:

This major requires a curriculum proposal with a course plan approved by the CRES committee and the advisor in the department of concentration.

Total major units: 16

Two Disciplinary Units from Distribution Group I:

One unit from the following CRES-foundational or CRES-designated courses (CRES-foundational courses cross-listed as “CRES”):

Dance

English

CRES 330 - Studies in Cultural Contacts: Modernity and Memory in the Indian Ocean
CRES 331 - Studies in American Literature: Literature of Reconstruction: “Postbellum - Pre-Harlem”
CRES 336 - Studies in African American Literature: African American Modernism
ENG 201 - Introduction to Narrative -only when offered as “South Asian Women Writers” or “Border Writing: Displacement, Memory, & Narration”
ENG 333 - Studies in Fiction -only when offered as “Postcolonial Hauntings”
ENG 355 - Twentieth-Century Jewish Literature
ENG 356 - Studies in African American Literature -only when offered as “Black Arts Movement”
ENG 366 - Studies in Poetry -only when offered as “Remixing the Canon”
ENG 370 - Studies in Cultural Contacts -only when offered as “The Palestinians”

Literature

Music

One additional unit in the same subject as above

Two Disciplinary Units from Distribution Group II:

One unit from the following CRES-foundational or CRES-designated courses (CRES-foundational courses cross-listed as “CRES”):

Anthropology

History

Sociology

One additional unit in the same subject as above

One additional CRES-foundational unit from:

Anthropology

Dance

English

History

Literature

CRES 338 - Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Critical Theory

Music

Religion

Sociology

CRES 348 - Race, Economy, Public Policy

Seven Units of Religion, Including:

REL 201 - Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion

Two at the 100 level in different religious traditions

Two at the 300 level in different religious traditions

A minimum of two CRES-Foundational or CRES-designated religion units:

Two Units of Junior Year Requirements:

CRES 300 - Junior Seminar
REL 402 - The Junior Seminar in Religion
Junior qualifying examination in religion

Two units of Thesis:

CRES 470 - Thesis

Recommended but Not Required:

CRES explicitly focuses on the comparative study of race and ethnicity across borders and boundaries. Consequently, the committee strongly recommends as many of the following as possible:

Proficiency in a non-English language.
One or more units of CRES courses with an explicit comparative/transnational element.
Study abroad.