Race & Ethnicity Studies Minor
The minor in race & ethnicity studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of race and ethnicity. What do these categories of difference mean? How have they been defined, constructed and applied in different historical and socio-cultural contexts? How do they intersect or overlap with other aspects of difference (e.g., gender, class, nation, sexuality, religion)? Exploring these questions with analytical tools and approaches developed in a range of academic disciplines, the minor leads to a critical examination of the construction of race and ethnicity in a variety of social, cultural, historical, political and economic contexts.
The minor consists of five courses to be taken from three categories:
| Course from any of the three categories | 1 | |
| Race & Ethnicity Core Requirement | ||
| Select at least one of the following: | 1 | |
| Introduction to Race and Literature (Queerness and Race) | ||
| Introduction to Race and Literature (Reading Race in Time Travel) | ||
| Topics in Women's and Gender History (Brujas, Machos y Travestis) | ||
| Philosophy and Race | ||
| Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought | ||
| Comparative Ethnic Politics | ||
| Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | ||
| Race and Sexuality | ||
| Comparative/Theoretical | ||
| Select at least one course from the list of approved comparative/theoretical courses. 1 | 1 | |
| Economics of Inequality | ||
| Critical Multiculturalism | ||
| Introduction to Race and Literature (Queerness and Race) | ||
| Introduction to Race and Literature (Reading Race in Time Travel) | ||
| Identity, Inequality, and the Environment | ||
| Topics in Russian History (Soviet Union as a Multiethnic Empire) | ||
| Black Women's History | ||
| Racism(s) Across the Americas | ||
| Advanced Topics in Markets, Innovation and Design (1 course credit) (Marketing for Social Impact) | ||
| Philosophy and Race | ||
| Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Philosophy | ||
| Race Ethnicity and American Politics | ||
| Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought | ||
| Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | ||
| Race and Ethnicity after Technology | ||
| Reading Race, Gender and Sexuality | ||
| Race and Sexuality | ||
| Area or Ethnic Group | ||
| Select at least two courses from the list of approved area or ethnic group courses. 2 | 2 | |
| Anthropology of Native North America | ||
| Religions in Africa: Spirits, Saints, and Sufis | ||
| Immigrant Youth in U.S. Society | ||
| Special Topics in American Literature (Beyond Rum and Revolution: imagining Cuba from the Diaspora) | ||
| US Latino/a Literature (Growing Up Latinx) | ||
| Studies in Dramatic Literature (Margins to the Mainstream: US Latino/a Theatre & Film) | ||
| Studies in Dramatic Literature (The Theatre of the Civil Rights Movement) | ||
| Studies-Selected American Authors (Melville's Sea, Faulkner's South, Morrison's Song) | ||
| Introduction to African American Literature | ||
| Ethnic Comedy in the United States | ||
| Questioning the Post-Racial | ||
| Caribbean Literature | ||
| Jewish American Comedy: Stage, Screen, Stand-up | ||
| Special Topics (Affrilachia, Race, Power, and Regional Literature) | ||
| US: Fever/Fantasy/Desire | ||
| Seminar in Contemporary American Literature (Book Banning and US Latinx Literature) | ||
| Race & Gender in the 18th Century | ||
| Topics in Francophone Literature and Culture (French West Indies) | ||
| Holocaust Literature | ||
| German Jewish Identities | ||
| Never Again?: Antisemitism | ||
| American West | ||
| Topics in American History (Native American History) | ||
| American Revolution (African Americans and the American Revolution) | ||
| American Abolition (Slavery) | ||
| U.S. History from the 1940s to the Present (When taught by Jennifer Thomson) | ||
| Gender in Africa | ||
| African-American History (Terror and the Black Struggle) | ||
| Latin America: An Introduction | ||
| Identity, Politics, Nation | ||
| Language and Race | ||
| Music and Culture: Jazz and Social Justice | ||
| Music and Culture: Jazz, Rock, and Race | ||
| Gender, Race and Poverty in the United States | ||
| White Privilege and Whiteness Seminar | ||
| Integrated Perspectives Course (Modern Africa) | ||
| Reading Race, Gender and Sexuality | ||
| Women and the Penal System | ||
- 1
The list of approved comparative/theoretical courses is available on the website of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender (bucknell.edu/csreg.xml).
- 2
The list of approved area or ethnic group courses is available on the website of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender (bucknell.edu/csreg.xml).
- The fifth course may be selected from any of the three categories.
- Any given course may not count for more than one category.
- At least one course in the social sciences and one course in the humanities are required.
- No more than one 100-level course may count toward the minor.
- Students are encouraged to take the core course as early as possible.
- Courses other than those on the approved list may be approved by the Coordinating Committee on a case-by-case basis upon request of the student. These include interdisciplinary courses that span the humanities and social sciences, and courses in the natural sciences.
- Students are encouraged to discuss their selection of courses for the minor with a member of the Coordinating Committee.
- Students may request that study abroad courses be considered for the minor. The Coordinating Committee will consider such courses upon review of the syllabus.
Faculty
Coordinating Committee: Cymone Fourshey, Susan A. Reed