Race and Ethnic Studies
2023-24 Core and Elective Courses
Please note that Intro to Race and Ethnic Studies (RACE 121), required for the concentration and major, will be offered during fall 2023 and spring 20224 RACE majors and concentrators are eligible for reserved seating for all core RACE courses (RACE 121, 250, 252, 396) by contacting AAA Jennifer Schultz at schultzj@stolaf.edu before registration begins.
Fall 2023
RACE 121: Introduction to Race and Ethnic Studies (Section A: SooJin Pate, and Section B: Dana Horton): This course provides an introduction to critical concepts and key readings about race and racism that are important to the field of Ethnic Studies. Focusing on identities and communities, students learn about racial formation and difference in U.S. and comparative cultural and historical contexts. How does race intersect with class, gender, nation, and sexuality to produce privileges and oppressions? Students survey the emergence of Ethnic Studies through literary texts including art, creative writing, film, music, popular culture, and/or the sciences to become acquainted with interdisciplinary approaches and how concerns for racial equity and social justice formed this academic field. Required for the Race and Ethnic Studies major and concentration. OLE Core credits: CRE and PAR. GE credits: ALS-L and MCD.
RACE 252: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigenous Studies (SooJin Pate): This course is an advanced analysis of critical race, indigeneity, and ethnicity theories. Premised on the idea that a deeper and critical understanding of the world rests on placing race and coloniality at the center of analysis, the course will examine theoretical perspectives that problematizerace, racism, imperialism, colonialism and postcolonialism, slavery, genocide, and im/migration and borders. Theories we will cover include critical race theory, (post)colonialism, postmodernism, class-based analysis, theories of sovereignty and nationalism, multiculturalism and identity politics, third wave, global or transnational feminism and critical queer theories. Readings will include both original theoretical texts as well as field studies that demonstrate the application of theory. Recommended for the Race and Ethnic Studies major and concentration. OLE Core credits: PAR and SCS. GE credits: HBS and MCD.
***Please search SIS for courses listed under the Race and Ethnic Studies major/concentration.***
Spring 2024
RACE 121: Introduction to Race and Ethnic Studies (Section A: TBA, and Section B: TBA): This course provides an introduction to critical concepts and key readings about race and racism that are important to the field of Ethnic Studies. Focusing on identities and communities, students learn about racial formation and difference in U.S. and comparative cultural and historical contexts. How does race intersect with class, gender, nation, and sexuality to produce privileges and oppressions? Students survey the emergence of Ethnic Studies through literary texts including art, creative writing, film, music, popular culture, and/or the sciences to become acquainted with interdisciplinary approaches and how concerns for racial equity and social justice formed this academic field. Required for the Race and Ethnic Studies major and concentration. OLE Core credits: CRE and PAR. GE credits: ALS-L and MCD.
RACE 396: Advanced Methods in Race and Ethnic Studies: Research and Creativity (Jennifer Kwon Dobbs): How is academic work in race and ethnic studies enabled or transformed by an openness to creativity? And how is creative work (in fields such as film, music, literature, and visual art) enabled or transformed by research? In this seminar, students encounter foundational and contemporary work that addresses one or both of these questions. In the second half of the semester, students pursue individual projects (academic, creative, or both) that serve as their response. Strongly recommended for the Race and Ethnic Studies senior majors who prefer a course setting in which to complete their senior projects. Open to RACE senior concentrators, and RACE junior majors and concentrators by permission of the instructor. OLE Core credit: OEP
***Please search SIS for courses listed under the Race and Ethnic Studies major/concentration.***
Elective Courses
Please see the complete listing of permanently approved courses that count towards a RACE major or concentration.
Fall 2023
EDUC 250: Second Language Acquisition
EDUC 295: Foundations of Education
ENGL 200: Black Science Fiction
ENGL 200: Queer of Color Literature
ENGL 205: Am Racial/Multi Lit
GSS 250: Intersectional Feminisms
HIST 181: Civil Rights and Black Power
HIST 188: Making Scandinavia
HIST 195: Global Histories from 1500-Present
HIST 395: Oral History Seminar
MUSIC 141: Introduction to Musicology
MUSIC 231: History of Jazz
MUSIC 237: Local and Global Musicking
PSCI 258: World Politics
PSCI 264: Latin American Politics
RACE 121: Intro to Race and Ethnic Studies
RACE 252: Race, Gender, & Indigenous Studies
REL 218: Political & Liberation Theology
REL 267: African-American Religious Thought
SOAN 121: Intro to Sociology
SOAN 128: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
SOAN 247: Disasters
SOAN 264: Race and Class in American Culture
SOAN 371: Foundations of Social Science Research
SPAN 231: The U.S. and Spanish-Speaking World
SPAN 232: Latinx Experiences on the United States
SPAN 251: Gender and Race in Latin America
SPAN 276: Spanish 1st/2nd Language
SWRK 221: Soc Work/Soc Welfare
SWRK 373: Just Practice
THEAT 180: Text and Performance
Spring 2024
AFAD 231: Africa and the Americas: the Diaspora Experience
AMCON 211: Fear and Hope
DANCE 113: Hip Hop I
DANCE 246: Dance in the United States
EDUC 295: Foundations of Education
EDUC 346: Ethics of Refugee and Immigrant Education
ENGL 200: Hip Hop Literature
ENGL 200: Latinx Literature
ENGL 347: Postcolonial Literature
HIST 199: America After 1865
HIST 291: Introduction to African History
MUSIC 141: Introduction to Musicology
NORW 244: Sami: Tradition/Transition
PHIL 255: Race and Social Justice
SCI 258: World Politics
RACE 121: Introduction to Race and Ethnic Studies
RACE 396: Research and Creativity
RAMAT 130: Race Matters-Writing and Rhe
SOAN 121: Intro to Sociology
SOAN 128: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
SOAN 237: Latin American Culture
SOAN 261: Gender/Cross-Cultural/Perspective
SPAN 231: The U.S. and Spanish Speaking World
SPAN 232: Latinx Experience in United States
SPAN 251: Gender & Race in Latin America
SPAN 276: Spanish 1st/2nd Language
SWRK 221: Soc Work/Soc Welfare
Courses that May Count by Petition
Dance 141 (Topics): Intermediate West African Dance French 372 (Topics): Maghrebi Women (Maria Vendetti)
History 299 (Topics): History of the Global South (Sergio Pinto-Handler)
Nordic Studies 277: Islamic Communities in Scandinavia (Tanya Thresher)
Sociology/Anthropology 236: A Sociology of the Arab World (Ibtesam Al Atiyat)
Sociology/Anthropology 371: Foundations of Social Science Research (Ryan Sheppard)
Social Work 373: Just Practice (Susie Smalling)
Spanish 311 (Topics): Language, Power, and Ideology (Maggie Broner)
If there are courses not listed here that you would like to petition for RACE credit, please review these guidelines and contact the program director.
Other Courses
Sections of Religion 121, Writing 111, and Writing and Rhetoric may also count for RACE credit depending on their foci. Check with the program director to see.
By arrangement with the professor and program director, you may include an IS/IR or internship as part of your major or concentration if 50% of your coursework covers race, ethnicity, and/or critical indigenous studies.