Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies with a Concentration in History

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(Requirements for the CRES major with a concentration in history are listed below. Follow this link for the CRES Minor requirements.)

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

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: 14-16, depending on language proficiency

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 333 - American Studies Seminar: Jews across the Americas
CRES 336 - Studies in African American Literature: Douglass/Delany
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”
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”

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

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

Theatre

CRES 270 - Race and Identity in American Theatre

Five Units of History, Including:

A minimum of three CRES-foundational or CRES-designated History units:

Chronological requirement:

A minimum of one unit before 1800
A minimum of one unit after 1800

Geographic requirement:

A minimum of one unit in European history;
A minimum of one unit of United States history;
A minimum of one unit of history from areas outside Europe, the United States, and Canada.

Proficiency in a non-English language, demonstrated by one of the following:

Successful completion of Reed language courses:
⇒ Two units at a second-year level,
OR
⇒ One unit at a higher level;
Committee approval of language courses taken elsewhere, which may include:
⇒ Successful completion of language courses taken in secondary (high) school or at another college/university,
AND/OR
⇒ Successful completion of a language placement examination at Reed;
Committee approval following an individual assessment of language proficiency.

Two Units of Junior Year Requirements:

CRES 300 - Junior Seminar
HIST 411 - Junior Seminar
Junior qualifying examination in history

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:

One or more units of CRES courses with an explicit comparative/transnational element.
Study abroad.