Ethnic Studies Minor
This program is available at the following locations:
- Corvallis
- Ecampus
Ethnic Studies is an interdisciplinary field focused on critical engagement with the historical and ongoing ways in which race and ethnicity shape everyday life in the United States, but also within a global context. A minor in Ethnic Studies provides students with a strong background and set of analytical skills to address issues of difference and inequality in a wide range of areas, from policy, to institutions and community settings, to pop culture, media, and literature, and is a valuable complement to any major.
Minor Code: 894
Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:
- Describe the experiences and histories of people of color in the United States, not as separate histories, but as intrinsic to U.S. and world history.
- Analyze ways in which oppressions such as racism, sexism, and heterosexism not only involve individual acts and attitudes but function systematically.
- Identify ways in which racialized ethnic groups and indigenous peoples have engaged in community formation, activism, resistance, coalition-building, and movements for self-empowerment.
- Compare the experiences of racialized groups in the United States and the ways in which they have been incorporated or excluded from national agendas.
- Evaluate social and cultural theories which explore the construction and articulation of race, class, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, ethnicity, immigration status, and citizenship.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core 1 | ||
| ES 101 | *INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES | 3 |
| ES 201 | *INVENTING ETHNIC AMERICA | 3 |
| 200-Level Courses | ||
| Select two courses from the following: | 8 | |
| *INTRODUCTION TO LATINO/A STUDIES | ||
| *LATINO/A IDENTITIES AND ACTIVISM | ||
| *SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES I | ||
| *SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES II | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES | ||
| *ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ACTIVISM AND EMPOWERMENT | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES | ||
| *NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIMILATION AND ACTIVISM | ||
| MAKING ALLIANCES AND SOLIDARITIES | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES | ||
| Upper-Division Electives | ||
| Select four courses from the following with at least two at the 400 level: | 14-16 | |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT: 20TH CENTURY | ||
| *INDIGENOUS OCEAN AND COAST | ||
| *HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | ||
| CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL DISCOURSE | ||
| ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
| NATIVE AMERICANS IN OREGON | ||
| ^PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND WRITINGS ON RACE | ||
| *ETHNIC MINORITIES IN OREGON | ||
| *ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM | ||
| *RACE, SPACE, AND DIFFERENCE | ||
| *FARMWORKER JUSTICE MOVEMENTS | ||
| *ARTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS | ||
| *QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUES | ||
| NATIVE AMERICAN LAW: TRIBES, TREATIES, AND THE UNITED STATES | ||
| *NATIVE AMERICAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | ||
| NATIVE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHIES | ||
| THEORIES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY | ||
| *ETHNICITY IN FILM | ||
| *ETHNOHISTORY METHODOLOGY | ||
| LANGUAGE, RACE AND RACISM IN THE U.S.: ADVANCED STUDY | ||
| ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | ||
| RACISM AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX | ||
| FOOD AND ETHNIC IDENTITY: DECOLONIZING OUR FOOD AND BODY | ||
| US EMPIRE/IMPERIALISM, SETTLER/COLONIALISM, CAPITALISM/RACE | ||
| *RACE, GENDER, AND LABOR ON THE OREGON COAST | ||
| QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR ARTS AND ACTIVISM | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS | ||
| Total Credits | 28 | |
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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)
- ^
Writing Intensive Course (WIC)
- 1
A grade point average of 2.0 and a grade of C- or above in all minor course work is required
Minor Code: 894