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Ethnic Studies (EST)
Advisor: Catherine Stewart
The Ethnic Studies Program and the courses that make up its offerings
address questions of ethnic identity and relations among ethnic groups
and is supervised by a faculty committee composed of the course
instructors.
In order to receive Ethnic Studies credit a course must devote a significant portion of its content to the study of subordinate racial or ethnic groups, where a subordinate group is understood as one whose members are, or have historically been, disadvantaged and subjected to unequal treatment by the dominant group in a society, the latter understood as a group whose members have superior access to or control over a society's economic, political, or social power. Specific courses may emphasize the cultural practices of one or more racial or ethnic groups or on the interrelationships between subordinate and dominant racial or ethnic groups.
Ethnic Studies faculty members:
Craig Allin, Jan Boney, Carol Enns, Leslie Hankins, Douglas Hanson, Lynne Ikach, David Loebsack, M.Philip Lucas, Christina McOmber, Alfrieta Monagan, Mary Olson, Richard Peters, Catherine Stewart, Richard Thomas, Charles Vernoff
Major: A minimum of 10 course credits which include:
- EST 123.
- ANT 101 (Cultural Anthropology); EDU 240 (Human Relations); REL 222 (Religions of the World); and SOC 348 (Race and Ethnic Relations).
- Four courses selected from the following, at least two of which must be at the 300 level and no more than three of which may be chosen from one department:
ANT 202 (Indigenous Peoples and Cultures of North America),
206 (West Indian People and Culture),
208 (Cross-Cultural Love and Family),
275 (The Black Woman in America);
ART 202 (Ceramics, when taught in Japan or Mexico),
261 (Topics in Non-Western Art),
263 (African Art and the Diaspora),
266 (Art of the Native Peoples of North America);
ENG 351 (African-American Literature),
367 (Multicultural Literature);
FRE 304 (Francophone Cultures of North America);
HIS 116 (Introductory Seminar in History, when the topic is ``The Holocaust''),
251 (Federal Indian Policy),
255 (American Lives, when the topic is ``African-Americans''),
350 (Colonial America),
354 (United States Social History Since 1940),
356 (African-Americans in U.S. History),
357 (Seminar in American History, when the topic is ``Japanese-Americans'');
MUS 220 (Jazz History);
PHI 301 (Asian Philosophy);
POL 335 (Seminar in International Relations and Comparative Government, when the topic is ``Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts in Today's World''),
361 (Race, Sex, and the Constitution),
367 (Urban Politics);
PSY 276 (Multicultural Psychology);
REL 335 (Religions of Ancient Mexico),
342 (Judaism),
362 (Holocaust and Response);
RUS 281 (Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization);
SOC 248 (Contemporary Native Americans),
343 (Women: Oppressions and Resistances),
376 (Civil Rights and Western Racism);
SPA 383 (Latinos in the U.S.), and
385 (Latin American Culture and Civilization).
- EST 485.
Similar courses, if approved in advance by the Ethnic Studies advisor,
may also be chosen as electives. Students are encouraged to participate in relevant
study-abroad programs. To count such programs toward an interdisciplinary
major in Ethnic Studies, students must obtain the approval of
the Ethnic Studies advisor in advance.
123. Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Examination of the meaning of ethnicity, race, and minority status. The relationship between race, class, and ethnicity. The psychology of prejudice. Structural discrimination. The evolution of ethnic interactions. The course is interdisciplinary in method and cross-cultural in perspective.
280/380. Internship: see Courses 280/380.
290/390. Individual Project: see Courses 290/390.
485. Readings/Research in Ethnic Studies
Student-designed research paper or project supervised by an Ethnic Studies faculty member. Prerequisites: a declared major in Ethnic Studies, seven courses in Ethnic Studies including EST 123, permission of the instructor, and approval by the Ethnic Studies Program Advisor.
988. There are nine semester-long programs run by the School
for International Training which have an emphasis on ethnicity. They are
located in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, Ghana (2), India
(Tibetan Studies), and Mali. See School for
International Training.
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