Course Descriptions


LOWER-DIVISION COURSES

  • ETHN 1A. Introduction to Ethnic Studies:
    Population Histories of the United States (4)
    This course examines the comparative historical demography of what is today the United States, focusing on the arrival, growth, distribution, and redistribution of immigrants from Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
  • ETHN 1B. Introduction to Ethnic Studies: Immigration and Assimilation in American Life (4)
    A history of immigration to the United States from colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the roles of ethnic and racial groups in economics, power relations between dominant and subordinate groups, and contemporary ethnic and racial consciousness.
  • ETHN 1C. Introduction to Ethnic Studies: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States (4)
    This course examines the theoretical literature on race and ethnicity, focusing on issues of domination and subordination, and the historical emergence of racism and ethnic conflict. Attention is given to class and gender differences with racial and ethnic groups.
  • ETHN 20. Introduction to Asian American Studies (4)
    This course introduces students to key issues in Asian American lives, with emphasis on the global historical context of migration; changing ethnic and racial consciousness; economic, social and political status; cultural production; and family and gender relations.
  • ETHN 87. Freshman Seminar (1)
    A seminar designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Enrollment is limited to 15-20 students, with preference given to entering freshmen.
  • ETHN 90. Undergraduate Seminar (1)
    A seminar intended for exposing undergraduate students, especially freshmen and sophomores, to exciting research programs conducted by department faculty. Enrollment is limited.

LOWER DIVISION SPECIAL STUDIES: *

  • ETHN 97 Field Work in Racial and Ethnic Communities
  • ETHN 98 Directed Group Studies
  • ETHN 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research

* Lower division students must have at least 30 UC credits and a minimum 3.0 UCSD GPA to participate in a lower division special studies course.

UPPER-DIVISION COURSES

  • ETHN 100. Theories and Methods in Ethnic Studies (4)
    An introduction to research in ethnic studies with special emphasis on theories, concepts, and methods. Students will explore how racial and ethnic categories are shaped by gender, class, and regional experiences and will study ethnicity and race in comparative perspective.
  • ETHN 101. Ethnic Images in Film (4)
    An upper-division lecture course studying representations of ethnicity in the American cinema. Topics include ethnic images as narrative devices, the social implication of ethnic images, and the role of film in shaping and reflecting societal power relations.
  • ETHN 103. Environmental Racism (4)
    This course will examine and interrogate the concept of environmental racism, the empirical evidence of its widespread existence, and the efforts by government, residents, workers, and activists to combat it. We will examine those forces that create environmental injustices in order to understand its causes as well as its consequences. Students are expected to learn and apply several concepts and social scientific theories to the course material.
  • ETHN 104. Race, Space, and Segregation (4)This course focuses on a range of problems and solutions to social inequality in communities of color in the U.S. and in the Global South. Students will examine housing segregation, urban renewal and population displacement, institutional racism, worker exploitation, and the location of hazards and amenities in a local and global context, as well as social movements and policy-making directed at addressing these issues. Students are expected to learn and apply a range of social scientific theories to the course material.
  • ETHN 105. Ethnic Diversity and the City (4)
    This course will examine the city as a crucible of ethnic identity exploring both the racial and ethnic dimensions of urban life in the U.S. from the Civil War to the present. (Cross-listed with USP 104)
  • ETHN 107. Ethnographic Field Work in Racial and Ethnic Communities (4)
    This is a research methods course examining social, economic, and political issues in ethnic and racial communities through ethnographic field work that places the researcher directly in the social world under study. Topics are examined through field work and library research. (Cross-listed with USP 130).
  • ETHN 108. Race, Culture and Social Change (4)
    Aggrieved groups often generate distinctive forms of cultural expression by turning negative ascription into positive affirmation and by transforming segregation into congregation. This course examines the role of cultural expressions in struggles for social change by members of aggrieved racialized communities in the U.S. and around the world. (Cross-listed with MUS 151).
  • ETHN 109. Race and Social Movements (4)
    This course explores collective mobilizations for resources, recognition, and power by members of aggrieved racialized groups, past and present. Emphasis will be placed on the conditions that generate collective movements, the strategies and ideologies that these movements have developed, and on the prospect for collective mobilization for change within aggrieved communities in the present and future.
  • ETHN 110. Cultural World Views of Native Americans (4)
    Using interdisciplinary methods, this course examines the cultural world views of various Native American societies in the U.S. through an exploration of written literary texts and other expressive cultural forms such as dance, art, song, religious and medicinal rituals.
  • ETHN 111. Native American Literature (4)
    This course analyzes Native American written and oral traditions. Students will read chronicles and commentaries on published texts, historic speeches, trickster narratives, oratorical and prophetic tribal epics, and will delve into the methodological problems posed by tribal literature in translation
  • ETHN 112A. History of Native Americans in the U.S. I (4)
    This course examines the history of Native Americans in the United States, with emphasis on the life ways, mores, warfare, cultural adaptation, and relations with the European colonial powers and the emerging United States until 1870.
  • ETHN 112B. History of Native Americans in the U.S. II (4)
    This course examines the history of Native Americans in the United States, with emphasis on the life ways, mores, warfare, cultural adaptation, and relations with the United States from 1870 to the present.
  • ETHN 116. The United States-Mexico Border in Comparative Perspective. (4)
    This course critically explores the U.S.-Mexico frontier and the social-cultural issues on both sides of the international demarcation. Social-historical and political-economic patterns illuminate border life, ethnic identity, social diversity and cultural expression. Border Ethnography is complemented by film and music.
  • ETHN 117. Organic Social Movements (4)
    Examination of local responses to global change and social disruption through the examinations of organic movements in indigenous societies. In-depth analysis of the Kuna Indians of San Blas, Panama; Maya-Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico; and Micronesians of the western Pacific.
  • ETHN 118. Contemporary Immigration Issues (4)
    This course examines the diversity of todays immigrants-their social origins and contexts of exit and their adaptation experiences and contexts of incorporation.
  • ETHN 119. Race in the Americas (4)
    This course explores the genesis, evolution, and contradictions of racially heterogeneous societies in the Americas, from European conquest to the present. Topics: the social history of Native Americans, Blacks, and Asians, and their interactions with European settlers, and racial, sexual, and class divisions.
  • ETHN 120. Race and Performance: The Politics of Popular Culture (4)
    This course explores how racial categories and ideologies have been constructed through performance and displays of the body in the United States and other sites. Racialized performances, whether self-displays or coerced displays, such as world's fairs, museums, minstrelsy, film, ethnography, and tourist performances are considered.
  • ETHN 121. Contemporary Asian-American History (4)
    The course will study changes in Asian-American communities as a result of renewed immigration since 1965; the influx of refugees from Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Lao, the economic impact of contemporary social movements on Asian-Americans' current economic, social, and political status.
  • ETHN 122. Asian-American Culture and Identity (4)
    A survey of Asian-American cultural expressions in literature, art, and music to understand the social experiences that helped forge Asian-American identity. Topics will include: culture conflict, media portrayals, assimilation pressures, the model minority myth, and interethnic and class relations.
  • ETHN 123. Asian-American Politics (4-4)
    This course will examine the development of Asian-American politics by studying the historical and contemporary factors, such as political and economic exclusion, that have contributed to the importance and complexity of ethnicity as a mobilizing force in politics.
  • ETHN 124. Asian-American Literature (4)
    Selected topics in the literature by men and women of Asian descent who live and write in the United States. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Cross-listed with LTEN 181).
  • ETHN 125. Asian-American History (4)
    Explore how Asian Americans were involved in the political, economic and cultural formation of United States society. Topics include migration; labor systems; gender, sexuality and social organization; racial ideologies and anti-Asian movements; and nationalism and debates over citizenship. (Cross-listed with HIUS 124).
  • ETHN 126. Comparative Filipino & Vietnamese American Identities and Communities(4)
    This course compares the historical and contemporary social, political, and economic experiences of Filipino and Vietnamese Americans, paying particular attention to the impact of U.S. wars in the Philippines and in Vietnam on their respective lives.
  • ETHN 127. Sexuality and Nation (4)
    This course explores the nexus of sex, race, ethnicity, gender and nation and considers their influence on identity, sexuality, migration, movement and borders, and other social, cultural, and political issues which these constructs affect. (Cross-listed with CGS 112)
  • ETHN 128. Hip Hop: The Politics of Culture (4)
    This course is an exploration of the development of hip hop music and culture in the United States as well as the cultural and political debates that surround it. We will consider a wide range of issues and aspects of hip hop, including the music, technology, lyrics, dance as well as hip hop's influences in graffiti, film, music video, fiction, advertising, gender issues, corporate investment, government and censorship debates. Our aims are not only to explore the cultural form itself, but also to learn how to think actively and critically about race, gender, and popular culture and the politics of creative expression in the late twentieth century. (Cross-listed with MUS 152)
  • ETHN 129. Asian and Latina Immigrant Workers in the Global Economy (4)
    This course will explore the social, political, and economic implications of Asian and Latina immigrant women in the U.S. and their increasing role as workers in the global economy. Global economic restructuring, immigration policies and welfare reform have had significant impacts on the everyday lives of immigrants in the United States. We will critically examine these larger social forces from the perspectives of Latina and Asian immigrant women workers, incorporating theories of race, class, and gender to provide a careful reading of the experiences of immigrant women on the global assembly line. (Cross-listed with USP 135).
  • ETHN 130. Social and Economic History of the Southwest I (4)
    This course examines the history of the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands (what became the U.S. Southwest) from roughly 1400 to the end of the U.S. - Mexican War in 1846 - 1848, focusing specifically on the area's social, cultural, and political development (Cross-listed with HIUS 158.)
  • ETHN 131. Social and Economic History of the Southwest II (4)
    This course examines the history of the American Southwest from the U.S. -Mexican War in 1846-48 to the present, focusing on immigration, racial and ethnic conflict, and the growth of Chicano national identity. (Cross-listed with HIUS 159).
  • ETHN 132. Chicano Dramatic Literature (4)
    Focusing on the contemporary evolution of Chicano dramatic literature, the course will analyze playwrights and theatre groups that express the Chicano experience in the U.S., examining relevant acts, plays, and documentaries for their contributions to the developing Chicano theatre movement. (Cross-listed with THHS 111).
  • ETHN 133. Hispanic-American Dramatic Literature (4)
    This course examines the plays of leading Cuban-American, Puerto Rican, and Chicano playwrights in an effort to understand the experiences of these Hispanic-American groups in the United States. (Cross-listed with THHS 111.)
  • ETHN 134. Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern American Society (4)
    Comparative study of immigration and ethnic-group formation in the United States from 1880 to the present. Topics include immigrant adaptation, competing theories about the experiences of different ethnic groups, and the persistence of ethnic attachments in modern American society. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students may be required to submit a more substantial piece of work.
  • ETHN 135A. Early Latino/a-Chicano/a Cultural Production: 1848 to 1960 (4)
    Cross disciplinary study of nineteenth and early twentieth century Latino/a-Chicano/a literature, folklore, music, testimonio, or other cultural practices. Specific periods covered will fall between the immediate aftermath of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the Cuban revolution. Repeatable for credit when topics vary. (Cross-listed with LTSP 150A.) Prerequisites: LTSP 50B or consent of instructor.
  • ETHN 135B. Contemporary Latino/a-Chicano/a Cultural Production: 1960 to Present (4)
    Cross disciplinary study of late twentieth century Latino/a-Chicano/a literature, the visual and performing arts, film, or other cultural practices. Specific periods covered will fall between the Kennedy years to the era of neoliberalism and the creation of "Hispanic" or Latino/a identities. Repeatable for credit when topics vary. (Cross-listed with LTSP 150B.) Prerequisites: LTSP 50B or consent of instructor.
  • ETHN 136. Topics in Chicano/a-Latino/a Cultures (4)
    Cross disciplinary study of late twentieth century; Chicano/a-Latino/a literature, the visual and performing arts, film, or other cultural practices. Representative areas of study are social movements, revolution, immigration, globalization, gender and sexuality, cultures of the U.S.-Mexican border, and Chicano/a-Mexicano/a literary relations. Repeatable for credit when topics vary. (Cross-listed with LTSP 151.) Prerequisites: LTSP 50B or consent of instructor.
  • ETHN 138. Chicano/a and Latino/a Poetry (4)
    A study of themes and issues in the poetic production of Latino communities in the United States. Every effort will be made to select texts in Spanish, but some will be bilingual. Repeatable for credit when topics vary. (Cross-listed with LTSP 153.) Prerequisites: LTSP 50B or consent of instructor.
  • ETHN 140. Language and American Ethnicity (4)
    This course examines the intersection of language and ethnicity in the United States, focusing on the social and political impact of bilingualism, ethnically based English dialects, and standard and nonstandard English.
  • ETHN 141. Language and Culture (4)
    A critical review of conceptions of language and how they have been deployed in constructing images of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Topics include cultural and linguistic relativism, structuralism, symbolic and cognitive approaches, ethnomethodology, sociolinguistics, ethnography of speaking, performance, and ethnopoetics.
  • ETHN 142. Medicine, Race, and the Global Politics of Inequality (4)
    Globalization fosters both the transmission of AIDS, cholera, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases and gross inequalities in the resources available to prevent and cure them. This course focuses on how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and nation both shape and are shaped by the social construction ofhealth and disease worldwide.
  • ETHN 144. Bilingual Communities in the USA (4)
    This course compares the many ways of "doing being bilingual" that exist among communities of speakers of varied national origins, generations, networks, localities, races, classes, and genders. Of particular interest are the varied types of bilingual individuals and linguistic repertoires that exist in communities of Native American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian origin, and the implications of shifting and hybrid linguistic identities for the drawing of community boundaries and the shaping of national language policy. Specific topics include factors that promote language loss or maintenance in families, the linguistic and cultural repercussions of code switching and works borrowing, bilingual education, linguistic profiling, and language ideologies.
  • ETHN 145. Spanish Language in the United States (4)
    A sociolinguistic study of the popular dialects in the United States and their relation to other Latin American dialects. The course will cover phonological and syntactic differences between the dialects as well as the influence of English on the Southwest dialects. (Cross-listed with LTSP 162 if taught in Spanish.)
  • ETHN 146A. Theatrical Ensemble (4-4)
    An intensive theatre practicum designed to generate theatre created by an ensemble, with particular emphasis upon the analysis of text. Students will explore and analyze scripts and authors. Ensemble segments include: black theatre, Chicano theatre, feminist theatre, commedia dell'arte theatre. (Cross listed with TDAC 120)
  • ETHN 148. Latino/a and Chicano/a Literature (4)
    This course will study the representation of a variety of social issues (immigration, racism, class differences, violence, inter/intra-ethnic relations, etc.) in works written in Spanish by Latino/a and Chicano/a writers. May be repeated for credit as topics, texts, and historical periods vary. (Cross-listed with LTSP 154.) Prerequisites: LTSP 50B or consent of instructor.
  • ETHN 149. African American History in the 20th Century (4)
    This course examines the transformation of African America across the expanse of the long 20th Century. In addition to the effects of imperialism, migration, urbanization, desegregation and deindustrialization, special emphasis will be placed on issues of culture, international relations, and urban politics. (Cross-listed with HIUS 139.)
  • ETHN 151. Ethnic Politics in America (4)
    This course will survey the political effects of immigration, ethnic mobilization, and community building in America, and the contemporary role of ethnicity in politics and intergroup relations.
  • ETHN 152. Law and Civil Rights (4)
    In this course students explore the relationship between race, class, and law as it applies to civil rights both in an historical and a contemporary context. Topics include racism and the law, history of the 14th Amendment, equal protection, school desegregation, and affirmative action.
  • ETHN 159. Topics in African American History (4)
    A colloquium dealing with special topics in the history of people of African descent in the United States. Themes will vary from quarter to quarter. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students will be required to submit a more substantial piece of work. (Cross-listed with HIUS 183; conjoined with HIUS 283.)
  • ETHN 161. Black Politics and Protest Since 1941 (4)
    Discussion of black social, political, and intellectual experiences since the publication of Richard Wright's Native Son. Close examination of blacks' involvement in and relationships to Second World War, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Reagan Revolution, and Underclass Debate.
  • ETHN 164. African Americans and the Mass Media (4)
    This course will examine the media representations of African Americans from slavery through the twentieth century. Attention will be paid to the emergence and transmission of enduring stereotypes, and their relationship to changing social, political, and economic frameworks in the United States. The course will also consider African Americans' responses to and interpretations of these mediated images. (Cross-listed with MUS 153)
  • ETHN 165. Sex and Gender in African American Communities (4)
    This course will investigate the changing constructions of sex, gender, and sexuality in African American communities defined by historical period, region, and class. Topics will include the sexual division of labor, myths of black sexuality, the rise of black feminism, black masculinity, and queer politics.
  • ETHN 167. African-American History in War and Peace: 1917 to the Present (4)
    The social, political, economic, and ideological pressures generated during the international conflicts of the twentieth century have had an enormous impact on American life. This course examines how the pressures of "total war" and "cold war" shaped the African-American experience in both war and peacetime. (Cross-listed with HIUS 138).
  • ETHN 168. Comparative Ethnic Literature (4)
    A lecture-discussion course that juxtaposes the experience of two or more U.S. ethnic groups and examines their relationship with the dominant culture. Students will analyze a variety of texts representing the history of ethnicity in this country. Topics will vary. (Cross-listed with LTEN 178).
  • ETHN 170A. Origins of the Atlantic World (4)
    An examination of interactions among the peoples of western Europe, Africa, and the Americas that transformed the Atlantic basin into an interconnected "Atlantic World." Topics will include maritime technology and the European Age of Discovery, colonization in the Americas, the beginnings of the transatlantic slave trade and early development of plantation slavery in the New World.
  • ETHN 170B. Slavery and the Atlantic World (4)
    The development of the Atlantic slave trade and the spread of racial slavery in the Americas before 1800. Explores the diversity of slave labor in the Americas and the different slave cultures African Americans produced under the constraints of slavery.
  • ETHN 172. Afro-American Prose (4)
    Students will analyze and discuss the novel, the personal narrative, and other prose genres, with particular emphasis on the developing characters of Afro-American narrative and the cultural and social circumstances that influence their development. (Cross-listed with LTEN 183).
  • ETHN 174. Themes in Afro-American Literature (4)
    This course focuses on the influence of slavery upon African American writers. Our concern is not upon what slavery was but upon what it is within the works and what these texts reveal about themselves, their authors, and their audiences. (Cross-listed with LTEN 185).
  • ETHN 175. Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (4)
    The Harlem Renaissance (1917-39) focuses on the emergence of the "New Negro" and the impact of this concept on black literature, art, and music. Writers studied include Claude McKay, Zora N. Hurston, and Langston Hughes. Special emphasis on new themes and forms. (Cross-listed with LTEN 186).
  • ETHN 176. Black Music/Black Texts: Communication and Cultural Expression (4)
    This course explores the role of music as a traditional form of communication among Africans, Afro-Americans, and West Indians. Special attention given to poetry of black music, including blues and other forms of vocal music expressive of contestatory political attitudes. (Cross-listed with LTEN 187 and MUS 154).
  • ETHN 178. Blues: An Oral Tradition(4)
    This course will examine the development of the Blues from its roots in work-songs and the minstrel show to its flowering in the Mississippi Delta to the development of Urban blues and the close relationship of the Blues with Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll. (Cross-listed with MUS 126).
  • ETHN 179A. Jazz Roots and Early Development (1900-1943) (4)
    This course will trace the early development of Jazz and the diverse traditions which helped create this uniquely American art form. We will witness the emergence of Louis Armstrong in New Orleans and examine the composer's role in Jazz with Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. (Cross-listed with MUS 127A).
  • ETHN 179B. Jazz Since 1946: Freedom and Form (4)
    This course will examine the evolution of Jazz from 1943 to the present. The course will survey the contrasting and competing styles in Jazz from BEBOP to COOL to the avant garde and fusion. (Cross-listed with MUS 127B).

COLLOQUIA

  • ETHN 180. Topics in Mexican-American History (4)
    This colloquium studies the racial representation of Mexican-Americans in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, examining critically the theories and methods of the humanities and social sciences. (Cross-listed with HIUS 167).
  • ETHN 181. American Slave Communities in Comparative Perspective (4)
    A reading and discussion seminar that explores topics related to the emergence, consolidation, and destruction of plantation slave regimes in regions of the Caribbean and the United States. Topics will vary. (Cross-listed with HIUS 164).
  • ETHN 183. Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class (4)
    Gender is often neglected in studies of ethnic/racial politics. This seminar explores the relationship of race, ethnicity, class, and gender by examining the participation of working class women of color in community politics and how they challenge mainstream political theory.
  • ETHN 184. Black Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century (4)
    An analysis of black cultural and intellectual production since 1895. Course will explore how race and race-consciousness have influenced the dialogue between ideas and social experience; and how other factors i.e., age, gender, and class affected scholars' insights.
  • ETHN 185. Discourse, Power, and Inequality (4)
    While discourse analysis has transformed numerous disciplines, a gap separates perspectives that envision discourse as practices that construct inequality from approaches which treat discourse as everyday language. This course engages both perspectives critically in analyzing law, medicine, and popular culture.
  • ETHN 186. The Ethnic Press in the United States (4)
    Readings and research on news media institutions established in ethnic communities since the nineteenth century. The course will trace the emergence, development, and longevity of ethnic presses, their role in cultivating and maintaining ethnic identity, and their attempts to respond to and resist images in mainstream media.
  • ETHN 187. Black Nationalism (4)
    This course will investigate the ideologies and practices of black nationalist movements in the United States and/or across the black Diaspora, focusing on their political philosophy, political culture, and gender and class structure.
  • ETHN 188. African Americans, Religion, and the City (4)
    This course details the history of African-American migration to urban areas after World War I and World War II and explores the role of religion in their lives as well as the impact that their religious experiences had upon the cities in which they lived. (Cross-listed with USP 132)
  • ETHN 189. Special Topics in Ethnic Studies (4)
    A reading and discussion course that explores special topics in ethnic studies. Themes will vary from quarter to quarter; therefore, course may be repeated three times as long as topics vary.

SEMINARS

  • ETHN 190. Research Methods: Studying Racial and Ethnic Communities (4)
    The course offers students the basic research methods with which to study ethnic and racial communities. The various topics to be explored include human and physical geography, transportation, employment, economic structure, cultural values, housing, health, education, and intergroup relations. (Cross-listed with USP 129)

ETHNIC STUDIES HONORS

  • ETHN 191A. Undergraduate Research in Ethnic Studies(4)
    This course is designed to help students conduct their own research rather than merely read the research of others. The course will introduce students to research paradigms in ethnic studies, familiarize them with finding aids and other library resources, and involve them in the design of research plans.
  • ETHN 191B. Honors Research in Ethnic Studies(4)
    This course is a continuation of Ethnic Studies 191A-Undergraduate Research in Ethnic Studies. Students who have completed ETHN 191A and selected a faculty research adviser may enroll in this course. During the quarter the research for the honors project will be completed under the faculty adviser's supervision. Faculty advisers will meet weekly with their honors students to oversee the progress made in carrying out the plan of research.
  • ETHN 191C. Honors Research in Ethnic Studies(4)
    This course is a continuation of Ethnic Studies 191B - Honors Research in Ethnic Studies. Students who have completed ETHN 191B and are continuing to work with a faculty research adviser may enroll in this course. During the quarter the written drafts and final honors paper will be completed under the faculty adviser's supervision. The student will meet weekly with the faculty adviser in order to prepare drafts and the final version of the honors paper.

Ethnic Studies 191A, 191B, and 191C must be taken for a letter grade only.

ETHNIC INDEPENDENT STUDIES

  • ETHN 197. Fieldwork in Racial and Ethnic Communities (4)
    This course comprises supervised community fieldwork on topics of importance to racial and ethnic communities in the greater San Diego area. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports are required. (May be repeated for credit).
  • ETHN 198. Directed Group Studies (4)
    Directed group study on a topic or in a field not included in the regular department curriculum by special arrangement with a faculty member. (May be repeated for credit).
  • ETHN 199. Supervised Independent Study and Research (4)
    Individual research on a topic that leads to the writing of a major paper. (May be repeated for credit).

    (No more than two Independent Studies courses will be counted in fulfillment of the 2B requirement; permission of instructor required for enrollment.)

 

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