Graduate Course Schedule

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - S. Streeby

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - S. Streeby

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - S. Streeby

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - C. Marez

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - C. Marez

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - C. Marez

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - C. Marez

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - C. Marez

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 230 Department Colloquium (1 unit) - C. Marez

Wednesdays at 3:00pm, Speaker/Topics TBA

ETHN 200C

ETHN 200B

ETHN 200A

ETHN 200C

ETHN 200A

ETHN 200C

ETHN 200A
Section ID: 877924

ETHN 200C
Section ID: 864539

ETHN 200B
Section ID: 857727

ETHN 200A
Section ID: 822258

ETHN 260
Section ID: 820839

Projects (ProSeminar): Research in Ethnic Studies

M 1:30p - 4:20p SSB 103

Cultural Studies and Cultural Production

Th 1:30p - 4:20p SSB 103

Indigenous Epistemologies and Their Disruptions

Tu 1:30p - 4:20p SSB 103

Topics in Ethnic Studies: Critical University Studies

W 12:00p - 2:50p SSB 103

Comprehensive Research Preparation: The Literature Review

F 11:00a - 1:50p SSB 103

Comprehensive Research Preparation: The Methodologies Paper

Tu 9:30a - 12:20p SSB 103

ETHN 200B
Section ID:
794577

Formulations: Interdisciplinarity and Knoledge Production in Ethnic Studies

Tu 1:00p - 3:50p SSB 103

ETHN 202
Section ID:
794578

Qualitative Methods/ Ethnography

Tu 9:30a - 12:20p SSB 103

This course focuses on conceptual and methodological frameworks of ethnography and qualitative inquiry, including research design, grounded theory, the field note journal, participant observation, and interviewing; major themes include the role of indigenous/insider researchers, ethics of involvement, and community collaboration. 

ETHN 265
Section ID:
794580

Critical Immigration and Refugee Studies

Th 10:00a - 12:50p SSB 103

Y . Espiritu

 This course 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. 

Topics in Communication

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - S. Streeby - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 103 (1 unit) Section ID: 794579

ETHN 200A
Section ID: 784733

Departures: A Genealogy of Critical Racial and Ethnic Studies

Historical Methods and Archives

Tu 1:30 - 4:20p SSB 103

This course seeks to develop research skills in historical methods; to understand techniques and tools historians use to create historical narratives using archival and historical sources; and to compare and relate the value of these to ethnic studies research. Students may not receive credit for both ETHN 240 and ETHN 201.

ETHN 256
Section ID: 784736

Gender, Sexuality, and Race

Th 10:00a - 12:50p SSB 103

S. Kaplan

This course studies the body cross-culturally as the site for the construction of gender, sex, ethnic, and racial identities.

Marxist Thought

Th 1:30p - 4:20p SSB 103

This seminar examines critical engagements between scholarship from postcolonial, feminist and other radical Marxist traditions. We focus on philosophical and political debates stemming from issues of race and gender, tracing them in Marx's texts and their historical contexts.

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - S. Streeby - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 103 (1 unit) Section ID: 784735

ETHN 200C
Section ID: 773089

Projects (ProSeminar): Research in Ethnic Studies

Cultural Studies and Cultural Production

Th 9:00 - 11:50a SSB 103

This course will train students in approaches to interdisciplinary research concerned with power and the production of knowledge, with a focus on conducting multimedia field research, applying discourse analysis, and recognizing forms of data across disciplinary divides.

ETHN 257B
Section ID: 773092

Social Theory

Th 1:30 - 4:20p SSB 103

R. Kheshti

This course 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.

Special Topics: Decolonial Turn

Tu 1:30 - 4:20a SSB 103

This course will examine the intellectual production emerging from decolonial social movements in the Americas, with a focus on writers theorizing blackness, indigeneity, and the human.

Comprehensive Research Preparation: The Literature Review

F 11:00a - 1:50p SSB 103

Using key theoretical approaches, debates, and frameworks of Ethnic Studies, students develop a critical analysis of how existing scholarship within the field of Ethnic Studies informs a specific research question, topic, or object of study; this literature review demonstrates comprehensive and holistic knowledge of critical approaches and constructs a coherent theoretical framework that effectively summarizes, synthesizes, and assesses a particular body of relevant Ethnic Studies

 Comprehensive Research Preparation: The Methodologies Paper

M 11:00a - 1:50p SSB 103

Implementing interdisciplinary research methods, students produce independent, generative research germane to the study of race and ethnicity.  Students write a 20-25 page critical paper that poses an appropriate research question; engages relevant literature to provide a conceptual framework; develops and incorporates appropriate research methodologies; and constructs a critical, thorough, and cohesive argument based on the collection, organization, interpretation, and analysis of evidence.

TDGR 292
Section ID: 772813

Cultural and Critical Theory

Tu 9:00p - 11:50a GH 144

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - S. Streeby - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 103 (1 unit) Section ID: 773091

ETHN 200B
Section ID: 763877

Formulations: Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Production in Ethnic Studies

Qualitative Methods/Ethnography

Th 1:00-3:50p SSB 103

This course focuses on conceptual and methodological frameworks of ethnography and qualitative inquiry, including research design, grounded theory, the field note journal, participant observation, and interviewing; major themes include the role of indigenous/insider researchers, ethics of involvement, and community collaboration. Students may not receive credit for both ETHN 242 and ETHN 202.

ETHN 252
Section ID: 763880

Race, Gender, and Space

M 2:00-4:50p SSB 103

K. Dorr

This course offers scholars of race, gender, and sexuality an introduction to spatial theory and geographic methodologies. Particular attention will be given to theories of spatial formation, the interplay of social and spatial mobility and containment, and alternative spatio-political imaginaries.

LTCO 283
Section ID: 761298

Literature and Political Philosophy 

W 1:00p - 3:50p LIT 437

COGR 275
Section ID: 764228

Topics in Communication: Political Objecthood

Tu 9:30a - 12:20p MCC 139

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - S. Streeby - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 103 (1 unit) Section ID: 763879

ETHN 200A
Section ID: 751506

Departure: A Genealogy of Critical Racial and Ethnic Studies

Historical Methods and archives

Th 10:00a-12:50p SSB 103

This course seeks to develop research skills in historical methods; to understand techniques and tools historians use to create historical narratives using archival and historical sources; and to compare and relate the value of these to ethnic studies research. Students may not receive credit for both ETHN 240 and ETHN 201.

ETHN 266
Section ID: 751509

Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Th 2:00p-4:50p SSB 103

W. Yang

This course examines popular culture as a site of domination and resistance, and pedagogy broadly as (always political) educational projects in a variety of social contexts with a focus on youth popular culture in US urban public schools.

Topics/ Ethnic Studies Research
Practicum in Performance Pedagogy
Tu 5:00-7:50p

LTEN 254
Section ID: 752209

Topics in US Minority Literatures and Cultures 
W 1:00p - 3:50p LIT 355

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - S. Streeby - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 103 (1 unit) Section ID: 751508

ETHN 200C
Section ID: 740732

Projects (Pro Seminar)

Colonial Modernities

W 2:00-4:50 SSB 103

This course will examine the major statements regarding the colonial legacy for those countries and regions fighting for an understanding of independence and equality that had yet to be invented; one that had to at once borrow and (yet) remain autonomous from local cultural traditions and NATO world hegemony. Concepts like “Third World,” “plural societies,” “the global South,” “coloniality,” and “occidentosis” all contributed to this challenge in the attempt to take stock of nationalism in the age of Empire; to imagine globalization otherwise; and to project the role of new nations in a history that had yet to be determined. Readings may include works by John Furnivall, Jamal Al Ahmad, Frantz Fanon, Renato Constantino, Nick Joaquin, Carl Schmitt, and Ashis Nandy, as well as more recent works by Aníbal Quijano, Partha Chatterjee, Mahmood Mamdani, and Kuan-Hsing Chien. Requirements: in addition to attendance and participation, include an oral presentation, three short papers, and a longer essay.

ETHN 291A
Section ID: 740733

Comprehensive Research Preparation: The Literature Review

Wednesdays 10:00a-12:50p SSB 103

Y. Espiritu

Using key theoretical approaches, debates, and frameworks of Ethnic Studies, students develop a critical analysis of how existing scholarship within the field of Ethnic Studies informs a specific research question, topic, or object of study; this literature review demonstrates comprehensive and holistic knowledge of critical approaches and constructs a coherent theoretical framework that effectively summarizes, synthesizes, and assesses a particular body of relevant Ethnic Studies literature.

Comprehensive Research Preparation: Methods Paper

Tu 4:00-6:50 SSB 103

TDGR 292
Section ID: 741401

 Black Global Cultural Traffic
Tuesdays 9:00 am - 11:50 am

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - R. Frank - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 107 (1 unit) Section ID: 720400

ETHN 200B
Section ID: 732487

 Formulations: Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Production in Ethnic Studies
Mondays, 2:00pm-4:50pm, SSB 103

Race and Psychoanalysis (4) This seminar explores the centrality of race to the formation of the discipline of psychoanalysis as well as the relevance of psychoanalysis to the study of race, gender and sexuality.  We will read key texts by Freud, Lacan and Fanon and follow the development of their ides in the works of late 20th and 21st century scholars like Spillers, Marriott, Judy, Seshadri-Crooks, Eng and Mercer.

ETHN 256
Section ID: 732490

Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Wednesdays, 10:00a-12:50pm, SSB 103

S. Kaplan

ETHN 280
Section ID 732491

Black Thought: Roots and Routes
Thursdays, 10:00a-12:50pm, SSB 103

This course explores major currents in Black intellectual history, and some paths less well tread, structured thematically, geographically, and chronologically from the Nineteenth Century to the present. Students read foundational primary sources and contemporary scholarly studies of African Diasporic texts. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - R. Frank - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 103 (1 unit) Section ID: 732488

ETHN 200A
Section ID: 720419

Departures: A Geneaology of Critical Racial and Ethnic Studies
Tuesdays, 9:30am-12:20pm, SSB 103

Introduction to critical racial and ethnic studies and how this perspective departs from traditional constructions of race and culture; examination of relevant studies to identify themes, concepts, and formulations that indicate the critical departures that characterize the field.

This course offers scholars of race, gender, and sexuality an introduction to spatial theory and geogrphic methodologies. Particular attention will be given to theories of spatial formation, the interplay of social and spatial mobility and containment, and alternative spatio-political imaginaries.

This course 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.

ETHN 291A
Section ID: TBD

Second year graduate students should enroll in Section ID 729136 pending assignment of section ID to ETHN 291A course

Comprehensive Research Preparation: The Literature Review
Wednesdays, 5-8:00pm, SSB 103

D. Taylor-Garcia

Using key theoretical approaches, debates, and frameworks of Ethnic Studies, students develop a critical analysis of how existing scholarship within the field of Ethnic Studies informs a specific research question, topic, or object of study; this literature review demonstrates comprehensive and holistic knowledge of critical approaches and constructs a coherent theoretical framework that effectively summarizes, synthesizes, and assesses a particular body of relevant Ethnic Studies literature.

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - R. Frank - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 107 (1 unit) Section ID: 720400

ETHN 200B

Formulations: Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Production in Ethnic Studies

A. Imada

ETHN 241

Cultural Studies and Cultural Production

R. Kheshti

ETHN 257A

Social Theory

Cancelled

ETHN 267

History & Memory

Y. Espiritu

ETHN 280

Black Thought: Roots and Routes

G. Mendes

Structured thematically,geographically, and chronologically(from the end of the Nineteenth Century to the Present), this course takes a broad conceptualization of Black intellectual history as it explores both major currents in Black thought and some paths less well tread. Students can expect to read foundational primary sources along with contemporary scholarly studies of African Diasporic texts.

ETHN 230 - Department Colloquium - Wednesdays at 3:00pm, SSB 107 ( 1 unit)