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The Race and Resistance Studies Minor empowers students to understand the social construction of race and its intersectionality with identity. Through interdisciplinary study, they explore racialization, social justice movements, cultural expression by people of color, and community engagement. The minor requires 19 units of coursework, emphasizing upper-division studies and a 2.0 GPA.
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Degree Overview:
The Race and Resistance Studies minor is an interdisciplinary program designed to provide undergraduate students with a social justice approach to studying race. It examines race as a politically produced and contested process that begins with institutions, movements, and social problems, with a focus on racialized communities.
Objectives:
- Identify the objectives of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies.
- Learn how to interpret cultural production by people of color and how it expresses agency.
- Apply the concept of intersectionality to the experiences of people of color.
- Apply principles of community-engaged scholarship and community service learning.
Program Description:
The curriculum examines how race, gender, and class are co-constitutive factors of identity, how different groups are racialized in relation to one another, how social justice movements cohere and fall apart, and how groups have formed their own identities. The minor provides students with non-traditional, multi-ethnic, and comparative perspectives on national and transnational experiences of people of color within the U.S.
Other:
- The minor requires a minimum of 19 units of undergraduate study.
- No more than approximately two courses (one-third of the units) can be taken credit
o credit. - Students must maintain a 2.0 grade point average in minor courses.
- At least half of the courses towards the minor degree must be upper-division at the 300 level or above.
- Courses for meeting the minor requirements may be used simultaneously for meeting general education or credential requirements.
- Written declaration of the pursuit of the minor is not necessary prior to enrollment in any of its required or elective courses.
- Students should try to complete ETHS 100 or ETHS 110 before taking any further courses in the minor. These courses, however, may be taken concurrently.
- Additional courses may count towards the minor upon consultation with the Race and Resistance Studies undergraduate minor advisor.
- All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
