Race and Ethnic Studies, Minor
Race and Ethnic Studies Minor Requirements
Complete six courses, two of which are core to all students in the minor.
*No more than two courses in the student's major field may count toward the minor
Introductory Course
All students are required to take an Introductory Course on race or ethnicity which prepares them to look at the materials in their area of focus with reference to current scholarly discourse. Students are encouraged to take this course as early as possible and before completing the other requirements of the minor. Students may select as their Introductory Course one of the following or an alternative course approved by the program coordinator:
One introductory course selected from:
Four area courses selected from the list below:
Theoretical
United States
International
Capstone Seminar
The Capstone course should be a 400-level seminar outside of the student’s major, though on occasion a 300-level course may fulfill the requirement (by permission of the professor and the program coordinator)
The Capstone Seminar is designed to explore a set of significant social and ethical issues from several cultural and ethnic perspectives. In the process, students will be encouraged to apply the knowledge and analytical skills they have acquired while pursuing the minor in Race and Ethnic Studies. This will be carried out through a dialogue with their peers and the faculty seminar leader(s).
More specifically, the seminar seeks to:
Recognize and examine the complexity of the social, personal and moral questions involved in addressing U.S. cultural diversity; develop in a student a capacity for listening, understanding and applying concepts, techniques and value assessments applied by their peers or the faculty seminar leader(s) to the issues at hand.