Ethnic Studies (ES)
ES 101, *INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES, 3 Credits
This interdisciplinary course focuses on the ethnic group experience in the United States with emphasis on African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos/as, Latinos/as, and Asian Americans.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; LACS – Liberal Arts Social Core
Available via Ecampus
ES 159, *LANGUAGE, RACE AND RACISM IN THE US: AN INTRODUCTION, 4 Credits
Unpack language, race and racism--as well as the intersections between those ideas-- as cornerstones to understanding identity and society as inherently socially constructed notions. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 159/ES 159/WLC 159. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
ES 199, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 201, *INVENTING ETHNIC AMERICA, 3 Credits
An examination of past and present constructions of race and ethnicity in U.S. culture and society and their impact on individuals, institutions, policies, and practices, with particular emphasis on contemporary America. (Bacc Core Course) (H) (SS)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACS – Liberal Arts Social Core
Available via Ecampus
ES 211, *INTRODUCTION TO LATINO/A STUDIES, 4 Credits
An introduction to key concepts and ideas in Latino/a Studies, with a focus on the processes that led to the historical incorporation of various Latin@ groups into the United States, and the factors that have shaped contexts of reception for Latino/as historically. Explore connections and disconnections between historical and present day discourses and processes.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity
ES 213, *LATINO/A IDENTITIES AND ACTIVISM, 4 Credits
A comparative interdisciplinary treatment of contemporary Latino/a cultures and current issues affecting their status in the United States.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Available via Ecampus
ES 221, *SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES I, 4 Credits
An interdisciplinary survey of the African American experience beginning with pre-colonial Africa to the early 1900s. (H) (NC) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ES 221H
ES 221H, *SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES I, 4 Credits
An interdisciplinary survey of the African American experience beginning with pre-colonial Africa and ending with World War I. (H) (NC) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ES 221
ES 223, *SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES II, 4 Credits
An interdisciplinary survey of the African American experience from World War I to the present. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ES 223H
ES 223H, *SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES II, 4 Credits
An interdisciplinary survey of the African American experience from World War I to the present. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ES 223
ES 231, *INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, 4 Credits
An examination of the histories and experiences of Asian Americans from the mid-1800s to the present through historical texts, oral histories, personal essays, video, audio, and creative writings. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ES 233, *ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ACTIVISM AND EMPOWERMENT, 4 Credits
A look at Asian Pacific American activism and issues, from early labor organizing to contemporary community efforts, with particular emphasis on the 1960s to the present. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ES 241, *INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, 4 Credits
A survey of Native American cultures and history, both prior to and following contact with Europeans. Introduces the key contemporary issues and questions in the field of Native American studies.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ES 241H
Available via Ecampus
ES 241H, *INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, 4 Credits
A survey of Native American cultures and history, both prior to and following contact with Europeans. Introduces the key contemporary issues and questions in the field of Native American studies.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ES 241
ES 243, *NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIMILATION AND ACTIVISM, 4 Credits
Comprehensive course dealing with Native American experiences in the United States. Focuses on tribal and individual Native American activism and responses to government policies and cultural practices of assimilation since 1900.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Available via Ecampus
ES 260, *INTRODUCTION TO PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, 4 Credits
Introduction to the geography, societies, histories, cultures, and contemporary issues of Oceania (Pacific islands). Especially concerned with the experience of indigenous communities and the representations generated inside and outside Oceania. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Available via Ecampus
ES 270, MAKING ALLIANCES AND SOLIDARITIES, 4 Credits
Examines the history of social justice movement alliances and solidarity work. Students will learn from case studies and analyses of successes and failures in collaborations across race, gender, class, sexuality, and indigenous communities. Students will extend course learning via experiential projects requiring the application and practice of alliance-making and solidarity principles.
ES 299, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 319, *FEMINIST DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES: SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH, 3 Credits
Examines traditional scientific methods through a feminist philosophy of science lens that incorporates critiques of the racialized and gendered origins of modern science. Introduces the breadth of feminist research methods associated with social justice research.
Attributes: CSST – Bacc Core, Synthesis, Science/Technology/Society
Prerequisite: WGSS 223 with D- or better or WGSS 223H with D- or better
Equivalent to: WGSS 319
ES 321, AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT: 20TH CENTURY, 4 Credits
This interdisciplinary course examines the dialogues, conflicts and self-representations produced by African Americans beginning with the closing years of the 19 century (1895) and ending with the opening days of World War II. (SS)
Attributes: LACS – Liberal Arts Social Core
ES 323, CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL DISCOURSE, 4 Credits
Interdisciplinary course examines key African American political discourse(s) that emerged in response to major social and cultural transformations occurring in the United States after World War II to the present. (SS)
Attributes: LACS – Liberal Arts Social Core
ES 334, ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LITERATURE, 4 Credits
An examination of various works by Asian Pacific American writers and some of the critical debates surrounding them.
ES 345, NATIVE AMERICANS IN OREGON, 4 Credits
Analysis and understanding of the complex experiences of Native Americans in the present state of Oregon, from early contact with those of other ethnicities to contemporary demographic contexts.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Available via Ecampus
ES 350, ^PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND WRITINGS ON RACE, 4 Credits
Explores historical and contemporary cases of private, political, and public discourse on race and difference. Students will study diverse examples to explore strategies and methods of dominant and resistant discourse, as well as their social and material impacts.
Attributes: CSWC – Core Ed - Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC); CWIC – Bacc Core, Skills, Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC)
ES 351, *ETHNIC MINORITIES IN OREGON, 4 Credits
Exploration of the cultures and contributions of major ethnic groups in the state of Oregon. With timelines, oral histories, and audiovisual aids, the course will allow students to learn the ethnic and regional diversity in Oregon history. (Bacc Core Course) (H)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Available via Ecampus
ES 353, *ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, 4 Credits
Introduces environmental racism; the unequal impact of environmental harm on communities of color and indigenous peoples. Presents empirical evidence and theoretical frames, and explores efforts by government, residents, and activists to combat it. Considers questions of environmental justice via social structure, public access, open space, indigeneity, food, and media. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Equivalent to: ES 353H
ES 353H, *ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, 4 Credits
Introduces environmental racism; the unequal impact of environmental harm on communities of color and indigenous peoples. Presents empirical evidence and theoretical frames, and explores efforts by government, residents, and activists to combat it. Considers questions of environmental justice via social structure, public access, open space, indigeneity, food, and media. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; HNRS – Honors Course Designator
Equivalent to: ES 353
ES 355, *RACE, SPACE, AND DIFFERENCE, 4 Credits
A hands-on approach to exploring how we make space, and why geography is always infused with markers of social identity and exercises of power. Will practice "reading" space and landscapes, and learn how notions of race and other forms of "difference" shape space (and vice versa) to produce experiences of inclusion, exclusion, cooperation, and conflict. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Equivalent to: ES 355H
ES 355H, *RACE, SPACE, AND DIFFERENCE, 4 Credits
A hands-on approach to exploring how we make space, and why geography is always infused with markers of social identity and exercises of power. Will practice "reading" space and landscapes, and learn how notions of race and other forms of "difference" shape space and (vice versa) to produce experiences of inclusion, exclusion, cooperation, and conflict. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; HNRS – Honors Course Designator
Equivalent to: ES 355
ES 357, *FARMWORKER JUSTICE MOVEMENTS, 4 Credits
Justice movements for farmworkers have a long and storied past in the annals of US history. This course begins with the 1960s Chicano civil rights era struggles for social justice. Focus on the varied strategies of four farmworker justice movements: United Farm Workers, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The course is structured around the question of the movement and its various articulations. Course covers central themes and strategies that comprise the core of farmworker movements but is designed to allow students to explore other articulations they find relevant. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Equivalent to: ES 357H
ES 357H, *FARMWORKER JUSTICE MOVEMENTS, 4 Credits
Justice movements for farmworkers have a long and storied past in the annals of US history. This course begins with the 1960s Chicano civil rights era struggles for social justice. Focus on the varied strategies of four farmworker justice movements: United Farm Workers, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The course is structured around the question of the movement and its various articulations. Course covers central themes and strategies that comprise the core of farmworker movements but is designed to allow students to explore other articulations they find relevant. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; HNRS – Honors Course Designator
Equivalent to: ES 357
ES 360, *INDIGENOUS OCEAN AND COAST, 4 Credits
An intensive experiential course that explores Indigenous ocean and coast relationships. Work directly with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz on several possible coast related projects, all using hands-on learning and application methods. All projects will be centered on traditional knowledge, including traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Projects will center current tribal interests and needs as well as engage with the complexities of continuing cultural practices within a confederated (and once terminated) tribe comprised of both coastal and inland bands and tribes.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity
ES 375, *ARTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, 4 Credits
Explores concepts of structural inequality, difference, power, and discrimination through a critical survey of arts activism. Think critically about artwork and artists which address a number of social issues in the United States, including race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, immigration, and indigeneity. CROSSLISTED as ES 375/QS 375/WGSS 375.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
ES 377, *HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, 4 Credits
Introduction to the intersection of health and social justice, to better understand socially unjust health differences (inequities) present in communities across the United States and abroad. Examination of relevant historical issues, theories of justice, human rights, and empirical evidence of health inequities, with an emphasis in critical analysis and applied knowledge. Overview of community -engaged participatory approaches that may be used to address social injustices and health inequities.
Attributes: CPSI – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Social Processes & Institutions
ES 399, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
Equivalent to: ES 399H
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 399H, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
Attributes: HNRS – Honors Course Designator
Equivalent to: ES 399
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 401, RESEARCH, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 402, INDEPENDENT STUDY, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 403, THESIS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 405, READING AND CONFERENCE, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 406, PROJECTS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 407, SEMINAR, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 408, WORKSHOP, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 99 credits.
ES 409, PRACTICUM, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 410, INTERNSHIP, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 431, *QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUES, 4 Credits
"Queer of color critiques" refers to political theories and activism that emerge from LGBTQ people of color to examine the intersections between race, sexuality and gender. Addresses these intersections through theory, history, and activism. CROSSLISTED as ES 431/QS 431/WGSS 431 and ES 531/QS 531/WGSS 531.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
ES 440X, INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE & POP CULTURE, 4 Credits
Examines Indigenous resistance through the mode of pop culture. Explores pop culture medium which includes street art, clothing, music, film/video, online gaming, and other forms of popular culture. Analyzes current issues facing Indigenous people in the Americas as well as Indigenous responses and resistance to these same struggles through pop culture.
ES 444, NATIVE AMERICAN LAW: TRIBES, TREATIES, AND THE UNITED STATES, 4 Credits
Examination of the parameters of native treaty relationships with the federal and state governments, and considers the future of these agreements.
Attributes: LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core; LACS – Liberal Arts Social Core
Available via Ecampus
ES 445, *NATIVE AMERICAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 4 Credits
Examination of scientific and technological discovery, continuity, and change among indigenous peoples, with particular emphasis on selected communities of pre- and post-European contact North America. (Bacc Core Course) (H) (NC)
Attributes: CSST – Bacc Core, Synthesis, Science/Technology/Society; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ES 445H
ES 445H, *NATIVE AMERICAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 4 Credits
Examination of scientific and technological discovery, continuity, and change among indigenous peoples, with particular emphasis on selected communities of pre- and post-European contact North America. (Bacc Core Course) (H) (NC)
Attributes: CSST – Bacc Core, Synthesis, Science/Technology/Society; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ES 445
ES 448, NATIVE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHIES, 4 Credits
Native American perspectives on ways of knowing, sources of meaning and ethics, the nature of reality, self, community, and cosmos. Includes lectures, scholarship, story-telling, poetry, theater, and music as forums for this exploration. Introduces ideas of leading Native American thinkers about the human relation to the natural world, sources of strength and wisdom, the nature of time and place and spirit, right ways of acting in communities, both civic and biotic, and the place of beauty in a well-lived life. CROSSLISTED as ES 448/PHL 448/REL 448.
Attributes: LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
ES 449, INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS, 4 Credits
Explores Indigenous feminisms as well as some of the issues facing Indigenous women in the Americas and Pacific Islands. Relates Indigenous feminisms to the complexity of federal law and policies as well as land struggles between Indigenous communities and contemporary settler colonial nations. Raises awareness of current Indigenous struggles as well as Indigenous feminist responses and resistance to these same struggles.
Equivalent to: QS 449, WGSS 449
Recommended: Critical thinking, evaluation, and synthesis skills
ES 451, THEORIES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY, 4 Credits
A seminar examining various theories of race and ethnicity, their historical contexts, and applications.
Available via Ecampus
ES 452, *ETHNICITY IN FILM, 4 Credits
Using ethnicity and gender as primary frames of reference, this upper-division/graduate level seminar seeks to introduce students to critical film theory and examine ethnicity and gender as a force both in front of and behind the camera.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Available via Ecampus
ES 453, *ETHNOHISTORY METHODOLOGY, 4 Credits
A seminar developing techniques for collecting, analyzing, and incorporating ethnic community histories in research papers and theses.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
ES 454, KALAPUYA PEOPLES CULTURE AND HISTORY STUDIES, 4 Credits
Presents and analyzes the deep history and cultural contexts of the Kalapuya peoples of western Oregon from multiple academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, linguistics, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies. Addresses historic and prehistoric themes including Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), arts and crafts (material culture), settler colonization, treaties & removal, reservation life, federal Indian policy, termination & restoration, and survivance of contemporary cultural identity. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 454/ES 454.
Prerequisite: ES 241 with C or better or ES 241H with C or better
Corequisites: ES 345
Equivalent to: ANTH 454
ES 455, INTERNSHIP SEMINAR, 1 Credit
Prepares students for the internship and provides an opportunity to explore career options and/or graduate study.
ES 459, LANGUAGE, RACE AND RACISM IN THE U.S.: ADVANCED STUDY, 4 Credits
Unpack language, race and racism--as well as the intersections between those ideas-- as cornerstones to understanding identity and society as inherently socially constructed ideas. Better understand how racism is produced and reproduced in talk and text (this will include symbols and signs), especially in the context of the denial of racism. Focuses on the language of racism, and more specifically, types of discourse that construct Whiteness as dominant over Color. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 459/ES 459/WLC 459.
ES 460, ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, 4 Credits
Seminar examines inequities and social justice issues in contemporary U.S. society, particularly dimensions of race and ethnicity in our public policies and practices impacting communities in areas such as housing, poverty, employment, public health, education, law enforcement, and the environment.
ES 461, RACISM AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, 4 Credits
The prison industrial/punishment complex in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has become a growth industry with the privatization of prisons, and mass incarceration of mostly people-of-color. This course examines the history and growth of this industry and the implications that it has on this democracy.
ES 463, US EMPIRE/IMPERIALISM, SETTLER/COLONIALISM, CAPITALISM/RACE, 4 Credits
How and when did the United States become an empire? This course approaches the historical and contemporary actions of the United States as both a continental and global empire through historiography, socio-political, economic, and racial analyses of U.S. hegemony. Students will learn from recent interdisciplinary scholars who have worked to understand the development of U.S. empire as a series of overlapping cultural projects in the homeland, and beyond the borders of the United States as mutually constitutive of political, and economic, and cultural processes of empire-building, that is capital accumulation, and power.
ES 464, FOOD AND ETHNIC IDENTITY: DECOLONIZING OUR FOOD AND BODY, 3 Credits
This interdisciplinary and comparative course will examine the relationship between food and identity. Food, from its production to consumption, is a powerful symbol of social and cultural meaning. As an expression of identity and subjectivity, food also marks borders between humans and non-humans, plants and animals, nature and culture, tradition and modernity, etc. CROSSLISTED as ES 464/FCSJ 464 and ES 564/FCSJ 564.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: FCSJ 464
ES 475, *RACE, GENDER, AND LABOR ON THE OREGON COAST, 4 Credits
Examines the sociopolitical and cultural processes that constitute coastal spaces in Oregon, including issues of race/ethnicity, immigration, labor/class, and gender, as these shape and are shaped by human interactions with the coast and the ocean. In addition to reading, writing, and discussion, engage in guided-inquiry and problem-solving projects, to explore substantive issues in Newport and other locations along the Oregon coast. Takes advantage of the Hatfield Marine Science Center and available technologies, to connect students with Newport and other coastal locations including Coos Bay, Lincoln City, and Astoria. CROSSLISTED as ES 475/WGSS 475.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Equivalent to: WGSS 475
Recommended: Junior class standing; collaboration, critical thinking, and synthesis skills
ES 477, QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR ARTS AND ACTIVISM, 4 Credits
LGBTQ people of color often engage struggles for social justice through artistic movements. Focuses on arts by LGBTQ people of color and the way these artistic movements contribute to activism that interrupts interlocking systems of oppression. CROSSLISTED as ES 477/QS 477/WGSS 477 and ES 577/QS 577/WGSS 577.
Equivalent to: QS 477, WGSS 477
Recommended: QS 262 and QS 462
Available via Ecampus
ES 485, CAPSTONE IN SOCIAL JUSTICE, 2 Credits
Working with an advisor from the Social Justice minor, conduct research to synthesize and extend analysis of a particular social justice issue, building on three previous papers or projects. Results are presented in a 10-15 page paper and a public poster, presentation or website. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 485/ES 485/WGSS 485.
Prerequisite: (ANTH 373 with D- or better or ES 373 with D- or better or WGSS 373 with D- or better or WLC 373 with D- or better) and (ANTH 410 [D-] or ES 410 [D-] or WGSS 410 [D-] or WLC 410 [D-])
Equivalent to: ANTH 485, WGSS 485, WLC 485
This course is repeatable for 4 credits.
ES 499, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 501, RESEARCH, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 502, INDEPENDENT STUDY, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 503, THESIS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 999 credits.
ES 505, READING AND CONFERENCE, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 506, SPECIAL PROJECTS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 507, SEMINAR, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 508, WORKSHOP, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 509, PRACTICUM, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 510, INTERNSHIP, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 531, QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUES, 4 Credits
"Queer of color critiques" refers to political theories and activism that emerge from LGBTQ people of color to examine the intersections between race, sexuality and gender. Addresses these intersections through theory, history, and activism. CROSSLISTED as ES 431/QS 431/WGSS 431 and ES 531/QS 531/WGSS 531.
ES 540X, INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE & POP CULTURE, 4 Credits
Examines Indigenous resistance through the mode of pop culture. Explores pop culture medium which includes street art, clothing, music, film/video, online gaming, and other forms of popular culture. Analyzes current issues facing Indigenous people in the Americas as well as Indigenous responses and resistance to these same struggles through pop culture.
ES 544, NATIVE AMERICAN LAW: TRIBES, TREATIES, AND THE U.S., 4 Credits
Examination of the parameters of native treaty relationships with the federal and state governments, and considers the future of these agreements.
Available via Ecampus
ES 548, NATIVE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHIES, 4 Credits
Native American perspectives on ways of knowing, sources of meaning and ethics, the nature of reality, self, community, and cosmos. Includes lectures, scholarship, story-telling, poetry, theater, and music as forums for this exploration. Introduces ideas of leading Native American thinkers about the human relation to the natural world, sources of strength and wisdom, the nature of time and place and spirit, right ways of acting in communities, both civic and biotic, and the place of beauty in a well-lived life.
Equivalent to: PHL 548, REL 548
ES 549, INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS, 4 Credits
Explores Indigenous feminisms as well as some of the issues facing Indigenous women in the Americas and Pacific Islands. Relates Indigenous feminisms to the complexity of federal law and policies as well as land struggles between Indigenous communities and contemporary settler colonial nations. Raises awareness of current Indigenous struggles as well as Indigenous feminist responses and resistance to these same struggles.
ES 551, THEORIES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY, 4 Credits
A seminar examining various theories of race and ethnicity, their historical contexts, and applications.
Available via Ecampus
ES 552, ETHNICITY IN FILM, 4 Credits
Using ethnicity and gender as primary frames of reference, this upper-division/graduate level seminar seeks to introduce students to critical film theory and examine ethnicity and gender as a force both in front of and behind the camera.
Available via Ecampus
ES 553, ETHNOHISTORY METHODOLOGY, 4 Credits
A seminar developing techniques for collecting, analyzing, and incorporating ethnic community histories in research papers and theses.
ES 554, KALAPUYA PEOPLES CULTURE AND HISTORY STUDIES, 4 Credits
Presents and analyzes the deep history and cultural contexts of the Kalapuya peoples of western Oregon from multiple academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, linguistics, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies. Addresses historic and prehistoric themes including Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), arts and crafts (material culture), settler colonization, treaties & removal, reservation life, federal Indian policy, termination & restoration, and survivance of contemporary cultural identity. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 554/ES 554.
Equivalent to: ANTH 554
ES 559, LANGUAGE, RACE AND RACISM IN THE U.S.: ADVANCED STUDY, 4 Credits
Unpack language, race and racism--as well as the intersections between those ideas-- as cornerstones to understanding identity and society as inherently socially constructed ideas. Better understand how racism is produced and reproduced in talk and text (this will include symbols and signs), especially in the context of the denial of racism. Focuses on the language of racism, and more specifically, types of discourse that construct Whiteness as dominant over Color. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 559/ES 559/WLC 559.
ES 560, ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, 4 Credits
Seminar examines inequities and social justice issues in contemporary U.S. society, particularly dimensions of race and ethnicity in our public policies and practices impacting communities in areas such as housing, poverty, employment, public health, education, law enforcement, and the environment.
ES 561, RACISM AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, 4 Credits
The prison industrial/punishment complex in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has become a growth industry with the privatization of prisons, and mass incarceration of mostly people-of-color. This course examines the history and growth of this industry and the implications that it has on this democracy.
ES 563, US EMPIRE/IMPERIALISM, SETTLER/COLONIALISM, CAPITALISM/RACE, 4 Credits
How and when did the United States become an empire? This course approaches the historical and contemporary actions of the United States as both a continental and global empire through historiography, socio-political, economic, and racial analyses of U.S. hegemony. Students will learn from recent interdisciplinary scholars who have worked to understand the development of U.S. empire as a series of overlapping cultural projects in the homeland, and beyond the borders of the United States as mutually constitutive of political, and economic, and cultural processes of empire-building, that is capital accumulation, and power.
ES 564, FOOD AND ETHNIC IDENTITY: DECOLONIZING OUR FOOD AND BODY, 3 Credits
This interdisciplinary and comparative course will examine the relationship between food and identity. Food, from its production to consumption, is a powerful symbol of social and cultural meaning. As an expression of identity and subjectivity, food also marks borders between humans and non-humans, plants and animals, nature and culture, tradition and modernity, etc. CROSSLISTED as ES 464/FCSJ 464 and ES 564/FCSJ 564.
Equivalent to: FCSJ 564
ES 575, CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM AND OUTSIDER JURISPRUDENCE, 4 Credits
Critical exploration of critical legal justice movements and their relationship to social identities. Seminar emphasizes specific legal cases, federal and state laws, and constitutional issues that impact groups deemed outsiders in legal discourse as well as their social implications. The critical justice movement and anti-subordination struggles will be explored via case analyses that shape race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability relations. Theoretical contributions of law and society, critical race theory, LatCrit, and critical race feminism, critical white studies, critical mixed race studies, OutCrit, ClassCrit, and critical disability studies applied to historical precedent and current attempts at marginalizing/empowering communities. CROSSLISTED as ES 575/WGSS 575.
Equivalent to: WGSS 575
ES 577, QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR ARTS AND ACTIVISM, 4 Credits
LGBTQ people of color often engage struggles for social justice through artistic movements. Focuses on arts by LGBTQ people of color and the way these artistic movements contribute to activism that interrupts interlocking systems of oppression. CROSSLISTED as ES 477/QS 477/WGSS 477 and ES 577/QS 577/WGSS 577.
Equivalent to: QS 577, WGSS 577
Recommended: QS 262 and QS 464
ES 599, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ES 808, WORKSHOP, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 99 credits.