Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies with a Concentration in Sociology

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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 Sociology 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

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

Two Additional Units from the History and Social Science Division:

Two units of anthropology (will not apply if anthropology courses are used to satisfy requirements above)

ANTH 211 - Introduction to Anthropology: History, Theory, Method
Either ANTH 201 - Topics in Contemporary Anthropology or one additional unit of ANTH at the 300 level or higher (excluding 470)

Two units of economics at Reed

Two units of history at Reed (will not apply if history courses are used to satisfy requirements Above)

Two units of political science

One unit of introductory political science from the following:

One additional unit in political science

A maximum of one unit of 200-, 300-, or 400-level political theory (POL 280 , or POL 380 - POL 415)

Six Units of Sociology, Including:

A minimum of two CRES-Foundational or CRES-Designated sociology units

Two additional units of sociology

One Unit of Junior Year Requirements:

CRES 300 - Junior Seminar
Junior qualifying examination in sociology
Junior qualifying examination in CRES

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.