Upper-Division

CRES100 Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity

Examines race and ethnicity as categories of lived identity intersecting with gender, sexuality, class, and culture; historical discourses of difference underwriting social inequalities and movements to redress those inequalities; and concepts critical to the understanding and reshaping of power and privilege.

Credits

5

Instructor

Neel Ahuja

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level and Composition requirements.

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Winter

CRES101 Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Examines how scholars and activists produce knowledge in critical race and ethnic studies. Interrogates key terms to build a foundation and literacy in research methods. The course is project-based; and requires work on a team.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements.

CRES111 The Sounds of Struggle

Explores relations between music and democratic politics. Is harmony the ideal condition of the nation-state? Is disharmony a necessary condition of democracy? Students read literary texts alongside political philosophy and listen to music as we explore how musical recordings and performances produce our understanding of the citizen-nation relationship.

Credits

5

General Education Code

ER

CRES114 Race and Disability in American Drama

Investigates how African-American, Asian-American, and Latin-American playwrights represent and criticize the concept of race and disability in their dramas on topics from freak shows to Jim Crow laws to the Virginia Tech massacre. Students cannot receive credit for this course and LIT 151K.

Credits

5

Instructor

Ka-Eul Yoo

General Education Code

IM

Quarter offered

Summer

CRES181 The Lynch Doctrine: From Rough Justice to Stand Your Ground

Interdisciplinary course examining the history, politics, and aesthetics of lynching culture in the United States. (Formerly History of Consciousness 181.)

Credits

5

Instructor

Erin Gray

General Education Code

ER

CRES185A Race, Gender, and Science

Examines how science as epistemology and its accompanying practices participate in, create, and are created by understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and nation.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors. Other majors by permission.

CRES190A Critical Race Feminisms

Focuses on key learning outcomes of humanistic research and writing: developing a method for critical race feminist analysis, identifying objects and fields of study, formulating an appropriately narrow topic and thesis, identifying and critiquing sources, and completing well-structured written argumentation. Readings offer key theoretical models in critical race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, and queer theory.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

FMST 194S

Instructor

Neel Ahuja

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Quarter offered

Fall

CRES192 Directed Student Teaching

Teaching of a lower-division seminar by an upper-division student under faculty supervision. (See course 42.)

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES194 Group Tutorial

Group tutorial, led by a faculty member, that focuses on various problems within critical race and ethnic studies. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and undergraduate student participants. Enrollment restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES199 Tutorial

Students submit a petition to the sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Spring

CRES199F Tutorial

Individual study in areas approved by sponsoring instructors. May not be counted toward upper-division major requirements. Student submits petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring