University of California, San Diego

• 200A. History of Ethnic Studies (4) charts the origins of ethnic studies research, the emergence of dominant paradigms, and the history of race and ethnic issues across and within disciplines.
  
• 200B. Theories of Ethnic Studies (4) critically explores the ways in which theories of ethnic studies have constituted as well as analyzed knowledge and ethnic identity.
  
• 200C. Controversies in Ethnic Studies (4) is structured around contemporary events and debates over theories, methods, and objects of inquiry in ethnic studies.
  
• 210. Research Seminar in Ethnic Studies (4) introduces students to the practice of original discovery research in the field of racial and ethnic studies, including articulating a research problem, placing it within theoretical discussions, selecting appropriate methods, and analyzing data.
  
• 230. Departmental Colloquium (1) is a forum for the presentation of recent research by guests, faculty, and students. May be taken for credit six times.
  
• 240. Multidiciplinary Research Methods in Ethnic Studies (4) is a critical introduction to the broad range of methods used in ethnic studies research and how they have shaped social constructions of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality.
  
• 241A. Community Ethnography I: Method and Theory (4) reviews the major tenets of ethnography using case studies of ethnographic work and critical theory pertaining to epistemological concerns in the social sciences. Critical here are the major ethical parameters of conducting ethnography in ethnic communities, the role of researchers, and the practical implications of such research.
  
• 241B. Community Ethnography II: Practicum (4) focuses on the practical application of ethnographic concepts and methods in actual field research in a local San Diego community. The purpose here is to provide experience in conducting ethnography through participant observation, interviews, and contributing to communities. This will include a brief overview of ethnographic method, but will focus on hands-on research, analysis, and ethnographic writing.
  
• 253. Mass Media and Ethnic Identity (4) examines the ways that ethnic identity influences the practices of mass media, and the ways in which mass media shape and reflect ethnic identity.
  
• 254. Race and Racism (4) examines inequality based on race with a focus on the institutions, symbols, and social practices which structure and maintain racism. Particular attention is given to laws and social policy which reinforce racial inequality.
  
• 256. Gender, Sexuality, and Race (4) studies the body cross-culturally as a site for the construction of gender, sex, ethnic, and racial identities.
  
• 257A-B. Social Theory (4-4) is an intensive survey of social and cultural theory, focusing on how constructions of science, language, politics, and social inequality shaped early modernity, Romantic Nationalism, Marxism, cultural relativity, psychoanalysis, and fin de siècle social thought. The second quarter surveys poststructuralist, postmodern, feminist, Subaltern Studies, globalization, and other critiques. ETHN 257A is not a prerequisite for ETHN 257B.
  
• 259. Comparative Conquests, Colonization, and Resistance in the Americas (4) offers a comparative survey of the impact of European interactions with Native nations and populations in the New World, from Peru to Canada. Readings will emphasize modes of initial interaction, patterns of European colonization, and Native adaptation and resistance, and broader changes in Native culture and cosmology as a result of conquest and colonization.
• 260. Transnationalism and Borderlands: The Local and Global (4) critically reviews the analytical frameworks of transnationalism and borderlands. The goals are to assess traditional and current social science practice on immigration, identity, and community studies, and to understand how diverse peoples engage and participate in global processes.
  
• 261. Race and Law (4) advances a critique of law's innocence?of its claims for universality. The reading of legal and scientific texts will indicate how by incorporation existing constructions of the meanings of race, the law produces racialized modern subjects.
  
• 262. Race, Inequality, and Health (4) new critical and multidisciplinary perspectives provide tools for examining entrenched and newly emerging diseases and inequalities. This course examines medicine and public health in relationship to race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation and explores how these connections affect the distribution of health and health services locally, nationally, and internationally.
  
• 263. Language and Socialization across Cultures (4) focuses on the ways in which children in different ethnic and racial groups are socialized to language and through language. We will explore racial and class and gender ideologies that underpin the ways parents expect children to learn to speak; examine effective and appropriate methods for studying cultural patterns and understanding ideologies; and consider impacts of bilingualism, stigmatized dialects, immigration, religious training, and home-school conflicts in ways of speaking and using language(s). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
  
• 264. War, Race, and Violence (4) critically examines theories and research on war, race, and violence, including everyday forms of state violence, war and the making of empire, the politics of war memory, and war refugees. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
  
• 265. Critical Immigration and Refugee Studies (4)  surveys the field of immigration and refugee studies and introduces students to recent theories and cutting-edge research in the field. Key topics: gender and migration; diaspora and transnationalism; immigration, race, and citizenship; and globalization and immigrant labor. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
  
• 289. Topics in Ethnic Studies Research (4) is a research seminar on themes of contemporary and historic importance in ethnic studies. Themes will be determined by instructor. Course may be repeated three times for credit.
  
• 290A-B. Master's Thesis Preparation (4-4) All graduate students are required to write a master's thesis as part of the requirements for the master of arts in ethnic studies. Students should enroll in the thesis preparation courses in the fall and spring quarters of the second year of graduate studies.
  
• 298. Directed Reading (1-12) an independent research or individual guided tutorial in an area not covered by present course offerings. This course may be repeated for an indefinite number of times due to the independent nature of the content of the course.
  
• 299. Thesis Research (1-12) is open to graduate students conducting doctoral thesis research. This course may be repeated for an indefinite number of times due to the independent nature of thesis research and writing.
  
• 500. Apprentice Teaching in Ethnic Studies (4) is a course in which teaching assistants are aided in learning proper teaching methods by means of supervision of their work by the faculty: handling of discussions, preparation and grading of examinations and other written exercises, and student relations.

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