Information and Policies
Introduction
The B.A. program in critical race and ethnic studies (CRES) offers an interdisciplinary curriculum that enables majors to examine the dynamic power relations resulting from the cultural and institutional productions of the idea of "race" on a local, national, and global scale. Our majors study the history of race and ethnicity both in the United States and across the globe, and they learn how the constructs of race and racism have changed over time. By approaching race as a major ideological framework through which practices of power and domination as well as struggles for liberation and self-determination have been articulated and enacted throughout modern history and in the contemporary moment, our majors develop a deep understanding of how race and other modalities of power have informed the imagination and trajectory of social transformation and justice in the past and the present. The study of race in CRES yields critical insights into the social, political, cultural, and economic processes that have defined and shaped the modern era—colonialism, slavery, conquest, displacement, genocide, warfare, migration, creolization, criminalization, imprisonment, disenfranchisement, globalization, racial profiling, and post-9/11 security state policies. Our majors also examine historical racial/ethnic ideologies such as multiculturalism, colorblindness, and postracialism as well as contemporary social phenomena such as changing working conditions, new migration patterns, and emergent cultural expressions. Students further explore the ways that race and ethnicity have developed in concert with gender, sexuality, class, indigeneity, citizenship, and other areas of power, privilege, and lived identity, as well as the role they play in access to education, employment, welfare services, and participation in politics, the economy, and the arts.
The academic fields with which CRES is necessarily in dialogue include postcolonial studies, settler colonial studies, human rights studies, indigenous studies, migration, diaspora and border studies, mixed race studies, legal studies, environmental studies, and science studies. CRES majors draw on methods and concepts from different academic disciplines in order to better understand historical and contemporary social phenomena and problems. The major allows students flexibility at the upper-division level to design an interdisciplinary course of study that enables a general overview of areas of interest, while selecting electives from multiple areas of specific research and career interests. Alternatively, they can engage deeply with a key area of focus, taking a number of courses in a particular area in order to develop expertise in it. For example, they may wish to focus on a social group (e.g., members of the African diaspora), on a discipline (e.g., history), on a social phenomenon (e.g., social movements), or on a methodological or theoretical orientation (e.g., theories of race, gender, and sexuality).
Through immersion in a program of study that is multidisciplinary, comparative, and transnational in scope, CRES majors develop a critical perspective on race, racial relations, and racial justice in the United States and beyond. CRES also helps students develop skills in critical thinking, comparative analysis, the application of social theory, research, communication, and writing so that they can act effectively in an ever-changing, complex, and culturally diverse world. A student with a bachelor’s degree in CRES will be well prepared for graduate-level study in the humanities, social sciences, law, medicine/public health, education, and international affairs and strongly positioned to pursue careers in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Program Learning Outcomes
Students who complete the CRES major should emerge with the following skills, competencies, and knowledge:
Critical Frameworks
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of historical, contemporary, and intersectional perspectives on race and ethnicity.
- Demonstrate familiarity with different disciplinary methods applied to race and ethnicity.
- Demonstrate a critical perspective on institutional power and knowledge.
Communication
- Demonstrate ability to account for other people’s arguments, to formulate one’s own arguments, and to locate both arguments in the larger context of the field.
- Demonstrate ability to formulate an argument in alternative media, such as speech, audiovisual, digital, and other forms of non-written communication.
- Demonstrate writing effectively in the interdisciplinary field.
Research
- Demonstrate ability to design and implement a collaborative research project.
- Demonstrate ability to design and implement an independent research project.
Community Collaboration, Engagement, and Activism
- Demonstrate an understanding of the issues, ethics, and methods surrounding activist, collaborative, and community-based research projects.
- Demonstrate an understanding of collaborative knowledge that effectively integrates theoretical and experiential thinking about social justice.
Academic Advising for the Program
Email: cres@ucsc.edu
Phone: (831) 459-2757
CRES advising is held in Humanities 1, room 403 or via Zoom. Drop-in hours are posted on the CRES website. Students can make an appointment by using the Slug Success application found under Resources in their student portal (MyUCSC).
Transfer students should consult the Transfer Student Information and Policy section for specific requirements.
Getting Started in the Major: Frosh
This major is not highly sequential or course intensive. Students interested in CRES may declare at any time. While specific courses are not required in order to declare, ideally, students will be enrolled in or have completed CRES 10 with a C or better. (Please see the section "How to Declare a Major" for details.) All requirements of the major can be completed within two years. Although it is advisable to begin taking courses toward the major in the first year, it is not required.
Transfer Information and Policy
Transfer Admission Screening Policy
No major preparation courses are required prior to transfer; however, prospective students are strongly encouraged to complete the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) or to complete all University of California, Santa Cruz, general education requirements before matriculation. Students who did not list CRES on their application are welcome to pursue the major.
Getting Started in the Major: Transfer Students
Transfer students are encouraged to declare the major and enroll in CRES 10 as soon as possible to be assured entrance into the required core courses. Transfer students are encouraged to take advantage of the Summer Session offering of CRES 10 to jump-start their academic career. Transfer students and students in exceptional circumstances may substitute an equivalent course with the department chair or undergraduate director’s approval. Students are recommended to make an advising appointment as soon as possible to plan their academic career.
Major Qualification Policy and Declaration Process
Major Qualification
Students may declare the CRES major at any time. Transfer students should consult the Transfer and Information Policy section above.
Appeal Process
A student may file an appeal with the CRES advisor within 15 days of the denial of major declaration. The CRES Department will notify the student and the college of the decision within 15 days of the receipt of the appeal.
How to Declare a Major
Students may declare the major by submitting a proposed Petition for Major/Minor Declaration to the department advisor. The major declaration should include a plan to complete CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101 at the next possible opportunity.
Per campus policy, students must submit their major declaration no later than the third quarter of their sophomore year or, in the case of transfer students, no later than the second quarter of their junior year. CRES welcomes students who are pursuing more than one major or who are transferring from another major to declare after this time frame.
Letter Grade Policy
This program does not have a letter grade policy.
Course Substitution Policy
CRES is an interdisciplinary major that includes courses taught by faculty in other departments (see the Electives section below for a list of approved courses). Students who wish to substitute a course not on the electives list should complete the Petition for Course Credit form available on the CRES website and submit the completed form to CRES advising.
Double Majors and Major/Minor Combinations Policy
The CRES major works very well as a double major with numerous fields of study such as anthropology; community studies; creative writing; feminist studies; film and digital media; education; environmental studies; history; history of art and visual culture; legal studies; linguistics; languages; literature; music; performance, play, and design; politics; sociology; and more.
Honors
CRES awards honors and highest honors in the major. Students are considered for honors and highest honors based on their cumulative GPA, calculated from grades earned in coursework and the senior exit requirement undertaken for completion of the major. For honors, students must earn a minimum GPA of 3.70 in the relevant courses, while for highest honors, the GPA must be 3.90 or higher. Writing a thesis is not a requirement for receiving honors or highest honors.
Requirements and Planners
Course Requirements
To graduate with a major in CRES, a student is required to complete 10 courses with the approval of the department.
Lower-Division Core
One lower-division foundation course:
CRES 10 | Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: An Introduction | 5 |
Upper-Division Core
One upper-division core course is required for the major:
CRES 100 | Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity | 5 |
Disciplinary Communication (DC) Requirement
Students of every major must satisfy that major’s upper-division disciplinary communication (DC) requirement. The DC requirement in CRES is satisfied by completing CRES 101, Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Students must complete their DC requirement prior to the Senior Seminar.
CRES 101 | Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | 5 |
Electives
Students must complete at least six electives offered in critical race and ethnic studies (with the CRES designation) or from the lists below. At least five must be upper-division, and up to one lower-division course is allowed. For current offerings, please visit the CRES course page.
- At least two electives must be from the list of designated courses focusing on phenomena outside of the U.S. or on transnational or hemispheric subjects.
- At least one elective must be from the list of designated courses focusing on social movements.
- At least two academic divisions must be represented in the elective coursework.
Students are encouraged to supplement their upper-division coursework with language study, internships, and individual or group independent studies. Students may petition to have up to 10 credits of such activities substituted for upper-division elective requirements, so long as these activities serve, or do not interfere with, the breadth requirements.
Division of Arts
ARTG 142
/CRES 142
| Black Aesthetics: Interventions in Digital Media | 5 |
FILM 165B | Race on Screen | 5 |
FILM 165D | Asian Americans and Media | 5 |
FILM 165E | Chicana/o Cinema, Video | 5 |
HAVC 140A | America in Art | 5 |
HAVC 140B | Victorian America | 5 |
HAVC 140C | Race and American Visual Arts | 5 |
HAVC 140D | Chicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present | 5 |
HAVC 141B | Death, Desire, and Modernity | 5 |
HAVC 141F | The Camera and the Body | 5 |
HAVC 141K | Activist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism | 5 |
HAVC 142 | Contemporary Art and Ecology | 5 |
HAVC 190J | Visual Cultures of the Vietnam-American War | 5 |
HAVC 191B | The Virgin of Guadalupe: Images and Symbolism in Spain, Mexico, and the U.S | 5 |
HAVC 191C | Subalternatives: Representing Others | 5 |
HAVC 191E | Feminist Theory and Art Production | 5 |
HAVC 191K | Decolonial Visual Culture | 5 |
MUSC 80O | Music, Politics, and Protest | 5 |
MUSC 81A | Survey of Rap and Hip Hop Music | 5 |
MUSC 81M | Chicano/Latino Music in the United States | 5 |
THEA 151A | Studies in Performance: African American Theater Arts Troupe | 5 |
Division of Humanities
CRES 15 | Resource Centers Service Learning Course | 5 |
CRES 60E | Blackness and Indigeneity in Europe | 5 |
CRES 68 | Approaches to Black Studies | 5 |
CRES 111 | The Sounds of Struggle | 5 |
CRES 114 | Race and Disability in American Drama | 5 |
CRES 118 | Abolitionist Futures | 5 |
CRES 121
/EDUC 121
| The Struggle for K-12 Ethnic Studies | 5 |
CRES 131 | Black Freedom Movements | 5 |
CRES 150 | Race, Gender and Algorithms | 5 |
CRES 181 | The Lynch Doctrine: From Rough Justice to Stand Your Ground | 5 |
CRES 185A | Race, Gender, and Science | 5 |
CRES 188B | Topics in Black Studies | 5 |
CRES 188T | Topics in Race, Science and Technology | 5 |
CRES 188X | Topics in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | 5 |
FMST 117 | Post Zora Interventions: Art, Activism and Anthropology | 5 |
FMST 123 | Feminism and Cultural Production | 5 |
FMST 124 | Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas | 5 |
FMST 125 | Race, Sex, and Technology | 5 |
FMST 126 | Images, Power, and Politics: Methods in Visual and Textual Analysis | 5 |
FMST 131 | The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics | 5 |
FMST 136
/CRES 136/ENVS 136
| Organizing for Water Justice in California | 5 |
FMST 139 | African American Women's History | 5 |
FMST 145 | Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S | 5 |
HIS 104C | Celluloid Natives: American Indian History on Film | 5 |
HIS 104D | Museums and the Representation of Native American History, Memory, and Culture | 5 |
HIS 106B | Asian and Asian American History, 1941-Present | 5 |
HIS 109A | Race, Gender, and Power in the Antebellum South | 5 |
HIS 110D | The Civil War Era | 5 |
HIS 110H | Greater Reconstruction: Race, Empire, and Citizenship in the Post-Civil War United States | 5 |
HIS 111 | Popular Conceptions of Race in U.S. History, 1600-Present | 5 |
HIS 116A | Unchained Memory: Slavery and the Politics of the Past | 5 |
HIS 120 | W.E.B. Du Bois | 5 |
HIS 121A | African American History to 1877 | 5 |
HIS 121B | African American History: 1877 to the Present | 5 |
HIS 122A | Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1900-1945 | 5 |
HIS 122B | Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1945 to the Present | 5 |
HIS 123 | Immigrants and Immigration in U.S. History | 5 |
HIS 128 | Chicana/Chicano History | 5 |
HIS 151A | Medicine and the Body in the Colonial World | 5 |
HIS 158A | The Escapes of David George: Biographical Research on Slavery and Early America | 5 |
HIS 190D | Asian and Latino Immigration Since 1875 | 5 |
HIS 190Y | The Atlantic Slave Trade | 5 |
HIS 194I | U.S. Bases and Social Movements in Asia | 5 |
LING 135
/CRES 135
| Language and Racialization | 5 |
LIT 102 | Translation Theory | 5 |
LIT 121L | Green Ache: Ecopoetics, Race, and Material | 5 |
LIT 121N | RAGE: Race and Performance | 5 |
LIT 125H | Modern Arabic Novel | 5 |
LIT 133H | Haunted by the Forgotten War: Literature and Film of the Korean War | 5 |
LIT 134A | Caribbean Literature | 5 |
LIT 135F | Empire and After in the Anglophone Novel | 5 |
LIT 135G | Postcolonial Writing | 5 |
LIT 138B | Regions in American Literature | 5 |
LIT 145A | Colonial American Literatures | 5 |
LIT 146D | Nineteenth-Century American Fiction | 5 |
LIT 147A | Twain, Slavery, and the Literary Imagination | 5 |
LIT 149E | Modern Fiction and Poetry | 5 |
LIT 149B | Contemporary American Literature | 5 |
LIT 154C | Hip Hop Hi Art | 5 |
LIT 160E | Theorizing Race and Comics | 5 |
LIT 160K | Race, Labor, and Migration | 5 |
LIT 161A | African American Literature | 5 |
LIT 161B | African American Women Writers | 5 |
LIT 162A | Asian American Literature | 5 |
LIT 163A | American Indian Literature | 5 |
LIT 164A | Jewish Travel Narratives | 5 |
LIT 164D | Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life | 5 |
LIT 164J | Jewish Writers and the American City | 5 |
LIT 165B | Latino Fictions of the Americas | 5 |
LIT 169A | White Flow(n): Race, Gender, and Material | 5 |
LIT 182I | Littérature d'expression française hors de France | 5 |
LIT 183P | Fremdenangst: Ausländerfeindlichkeit in der deutschen Literatur und Kultur | 5 |
LIT 189F | Literaturas Latinas en los Estados Unidos: en inglés, español y Spanglish | 5 |
LIT 189U | Modernidad y literatura: El Boom de la novela latinoamericana | 5 |
LIT 189V | Andean Indigenismo | 5 |
LIT 190Y | Topics in Jewish Literature and Culture | 5 |
Division of Social Sciences
ANTH 110Q
/CRES 110Q/FMST 110Q
| Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture | 5 |
ANTH 130O | Native Feminisms, Gender, and Settler Colonialism | 5 |
ANTH 131 | Gender in Cross-Cultural Context | 5 |
ANTH 140
/CRES 140
| The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections | 5 |
ANTH 149 | Anthropology of Activism | 5 |
ANTH 158 | Feminist Ethnographies | 5 |
ANTH 187 | Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts | 5 |
ANTH 196J | Imagining America | 5 |
CMMU 101 | Communities, Social Movements, and the Third Sector | 5 |
CMMU 163 | Health Care Inequalities | 5 |
ECON 128
/LGST 128
| Poverty and Public Policy | 5 |
EDUC 102 | Education, Media, and Society | 5 |
EDUC 104 | Ethical Issues and Teaching | 5 |
EDUC 125 | Multicultural Children's Literature for Elementary Classrooms | 5 |
EDUC 128 | Immigrants and Education | 5 |
EDUC 135 | Gender and Education | 5 |
EDUC 140 | Language, Diversity, and Learning | 5 |
EDUC 141 | Bilingualism and Schooling | 5 |
EDUC 160 | Issues in Educational Reform | 5 |
EDUC 164 | Urban Education | 5 |
EDUC 173 | Seminar in Critical Pedagogy | 5 |
EDUC 174 | Ethnographic Research in Schools and Communities | 5 |
EDUC 177 | Teaching Linguistically Diverse Students | 5 |
EDUC 181 | Race, Class, and Culture in Education | 5 |
LALS 112 | Immigration and Assimilation | 5 |
LALS 128
/OAKS 128
| Latino Media in the U.S | 5 |
LALS 131 | Latino Literatures: Assimilation and Assimilability | 5 |
LALS 143 | Race and Ethnicity | 5 |
LALS 144 | Mexicana/Chicana Histories | 5 |
LGST 111B
/POLI 111B
| Civil Liberties | 5 |
LGST 135 | Native Peoples Law | 5 |
POLI 110
/LGST 110
| Law and Social Issues | 5 |
PSYC 153 | The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class | 5 |
PSYC 155 | Social-Community Psychology in Practice | 5 |
PSYC 159H | Community-Based Interventions | 5 |
PSYC 159I | Psychology of Immigration | 5 |
SOCY 120 | Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Sexuality and Cultural Politics | 5 |
SOCY 121 | Sociology of Health and Medicine | 5 |
SOCY 126 | Sex and Sexuality as Social Practice and Representation | 5 |
SOCY 127P | Sociology of Drugs, Botanicals and Pharmaceuticals | 5 |
SOCY 128C
/LGST 128C
| Social History of Democracy, Anarchism, and Indigenism | 5 |
SOCY 128I
/LGST 128I
| Race and Law | 5 |
SOCY 132 | Sociology of Science and Technology | 5 |
SOCY 133 | Currents in African American Cultural Politics | 5 |
SOCY 139T | Community-Engaged Research Practicum | 5 |
SOCY 145 | Sociology of Masculinities | 5 |
SOCY 148 | Educational Inequality | 5 |
SOCY 152 | Body and Society | 5 |
SOCY 156 | U.S. Latinx Identities: Centers and Margins | 5 |
SOCY 168 | Social Justice | 5 |
SOCY 169 | Social Inequality | 5 |
SOCY 170 | Ethnicity and Race | 5 |
SOCY 170P | The Political Economy of Race | 5 |
SOCY 171 | Exploring Global Inequality | 5 |
SOCY 172 | Sociology of Social Movements | 5 |
SOCY 173X | Water and Sanitation Justice | 5 |
The Colleges
JRLC 135 | Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research | 5 |
JRLC 136 | Methodologies of Critical Praxis | 5 |
Transnational Requirement
Students must select at least two electives focusing on phenomena outside of the U.S. or on transnational or hemispheric subjects.
Division of the Arts
HAVC 110 | Visual Cultures of West Africa | 5 |
HAVC 111 | Visual Cultures of Central Africa | 5 |
HAVC 115 | Gender in African Visual Culture | 5 |
HAVC 116 | African Architecture | 5 |
HAVC 117 | Contemporary Art of Africa | 5 |
HAVC 118 | Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora | 5 |
HAVC 119 | Arts and Politics of African Urban Space | 5 |
HAVC 123A | Modernity and the Arts of India | 5 |
HAVC 124B | History of Photography in Southeast Asia | 5 |
HAVC 162A | Special Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Ancient Maya | 5 |
HAVC 163 | The Native in Colonial Spanish America | 5 |
HAVC 170 | Art of the Body in Oceania | 5 |
HAVC 172 | Textile Traditions of Oceania | 5 |
HAVC 179 | Topics in Oceanic Visual Culture | 5 |
HAVC 190O | Berlin: History and the Built Environment | 5 |
HAVC 190W | Art and Culture Contact in Oceania | 5 |
HAVC 190X | Art and Identity in Oceania | 5 |
THEA 167 | Africanist Aesthetics: Live Dialogues in the Americas and Africa | 5 |
Division of the Humanities
CRES 45 | Pilipinx Historical Dialogue | 5 |
CRES 70U | (Un)docu Studies | 5 |
CRES 112 | AsianAm Enviro Justice | 5 |
CRES 116 | Race and the Pacific: U.S. and Japanese Empires in Comparative Perspective | 5 |
CRES 188A | Topics in Transnational Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies | 5 |
FMST 112
/POLI 112
| Women and the Law | 5 |
FMST 115 | Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas | 5 |
HISC 117
/CRES 117
| Making the Refugee Century: Non-Citizens and Modernity | 5 |
HIS 101C | Oceans in World History | 5 |
HIS 106A | Vietnam War Memories | 5 |
HIS 110A | Colonial America, 1500-1750 | 5 |
HIS 116 | Slavery Across the Americas | 5 |
HIS 130 | History of Modern Cuba | 5 |
HIS 131 | Women in Colonial Latin America | 5 |
HIS 134A | Colonial Mexico | 5 |
HIS 134B | History of Mexico, 1850 to Present | 5 |
HIS 137A | Africa to 1800 | 5 |
HIS 137B | Africa from 1800 to the Present | 5 |
HIS 137C | African Cinema | 5 |
HIS 140D | Recent Chinese History | 5 |
HIS 150C | Inventing Modern Japan: The State and the People | 5 |
HIS 150E | History and Memory in the Okinawan Islands | 5 |
HIS 154 | Post-Colonial North Africa | 5 |
HIS 155 | History of Modern Israel | 5 |
HIS 156 | Interrogating Politics in the Post-Colonial Middle East | 5 |
HIS 157 | The Ottoman Empire | 5 |
HIS 158C
/ANTH 179
| Slavery in the Atlantic World: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives | 5 |
HIS 166 | Northern Ireland: Communities in Conflict | 5 |
HIS 170C | From the Trenches to the Casbah: France and its Empire in the 20th Century | 5 |
HIS 177A | Slaves, Soldiers, and Scientists: History of the Tropics | 5 |
HIS 178E | Modern Jewish Intellectual History | 5 |
HIS 181B | Africa and Britain in an Imperial World | 5 |
HIS 184B | Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present | 5 |
HIS 185I | Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period | 5 |
HIS 185J | The Modern Jewish Experience | 5 |
HIS 190A | Slavery and Race in Latin America | 5 |
HIS 190B | Race and the Nation in Latin America | 5 |
HIS 190N | Topics in African History | 5 |
HIS 190X | History of the Atlantic World, 1492-1824 | 5 |
HIS 194T | Worlds of Labor in Asia | 5 |
HIS 194U | The Cold War and East Asia | 5 |
HIS 196N | Eastern European Jewish Social History | 5 |
LIT 131C | Worldings | 5 |
LIT 133F | Pacific Rim Discourse | 5 |
LIT 133G | The Nuclear Pacific | 5 |
LIT 133I | Global Japan: Literatures of the Japanese Diaspora | 5 |
LIT 135A | Topics in African Literature | 5 |
LIT 137A | Global Cities | 5 |
LIT 138A | Culture and Nation | 5 |
LIT 149F | Contemporary Mexican Narrative | 5 |
LIT 155A | Cinema and Subjectivity | 5 |
LIT 155E | Cinema and Social Change in Latin America | 5 |
LIT 160I | Race, Militarism, and Empire in Asia and the Pacific | 5 |
LIT 160J | Exile, Diaspora, Migration | 5 |
LIT 162B | Literature of the Asian Diaspora | 5 |
LIT 164C | Global Jewish Writing | 5 |
LIT 164G | Literature and the Holocaust | 5 |
LIT 164H | Jewish Writers and the European City | 5 |
LIT 165A | Chicano/Mexicano Geographies | 5 |
LIT 165C | Mesoamerican Indigenous/Indigenista Literature | 5 |
LIT 168A | The Culture of Islamic Law | 5 |
LIT 189A | De la conquista a Sor Juana | 5 |
LIT 189E | Cuba | 5 |
LIT 189H | La Globalizacion en/del Cine Latin/o Americano | 5 |
LIT 189L | Poesía latinoamericana | 5 |
LIT 189M | Prosa contemporánea hispanoamericana | 5 |
LIT 189N | Latinoamericano testimonio | 5 |
LIT 189O | El Cuento Hispanoamericano: Variedades esteticas de la literatura breve en America Latina | 5 |
LIT 189P | Las mujeres en la literatura latinoamericana | 5 |
LIT 189Q | Ficción y marginalidad | 5 |
LIT 189S | La cultura popular en la narrativa latinoamericana | 5 |
LIT 189T | Historia de la lectura y los lectores: Recepcion y consumo cultural en el mundo Latino Americano | 5 |
LIT 190O | Studies in Slavery, Race, and Nation in the Americas | 5 |
Division of the Social Sciences
ANTH 110O
/HIS 181A
| Postcolonial Britain and France | 5 |
ANTH 110P | India and Indian Diaspora through Film | 5 |
ANTH 129 | Beyond Borders: Other Globalizations and Histories of Interconnection | 5 |
ANTH 130A | Anthropology of Africa. | 5 |
ANTH 130C | Politics and Culture in China | 5 |
ANTH 130F
/CRES 130
| Blackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas | 5 |
ANTH 130I | Cultures of India | 5 |
ANTH 130L | Ethnographies of Latin America | 5 |
ANTH 130T | Religion and Politics in the Muslim World | 5 |
ANTH 159 | Race and Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 194X | Women in Politics: A Third World Perspective | 5 |
CMMU 145 | Global Capitalism: a History of the Present | 5 |
LALS 100 | Concepts and Theories in Latin American and Latina/o Studies | 5 |
LALS 115 | Mexico-United States Migration | 5 |
LALS 127 | Genero, Nacion Y Modernidad En El Cine | 5 |
LALS 145 | Grassroots Social Change in Latin America | 5 |
LALS 150 | Afro-Latinos/as: Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions | 5 |
LALS 152 | Consumer Cultures Between the Americas | 5 |
LALS 165 | Contemporary Peru | 5 |
LALS 170 | Indigenous Struggles in the Americas | 5 |
LALS 171 | Brazil in Black and White | 5 |
LALS 172 | Visualizing Human Rights | 5 |
LALS 175 | Migration, Gender, and Health | 5 |
LALS 178 | Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization | 5 |
LALS 180 | Borders: Real and Imagined | 5 |
LALS 194H | Central America and the United States | 5 |
POLI 140C | Latin American Politics | 5 |
POLI 187 | Decolonial Global Health: A View from the Middle East and Africa | 5 |
SOCY 128
/LGST 126
| Law and Politics in Contemporary Japan and East Asian Societies | 5 |
SOCY 128M
/LGST 128M
| International Law and Global Justice | 5 |
Social Movements Requirement
Students must select at least one course which focuses on social movements.
Division of Arts
HAVC 141K | Activist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism | 5 |
MUSC 80O | Music, Politics, and Protest | 5 |
Division of Humanities
CRES 131 | Black Freedom Movements | 5 |
FMST 20 | Feminism and Social Justice | 5 |
FMST 139 | African American Women's History | 5 |
HIS 121B | African American History: 1877 to the Present | 5 |
HIS 130 | History of Modern Cuba | 5 |
HIS 150C | Inventing Modern Japan: The State and the People | 5 |
HIS 154 | Post-Colonial North Africa | 5 |
HIS 156 | Interrogating Politics in the Post-Colonial Middle East | 5 |
HIS 184B | Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present | 5 |
Division of Social Sciences
ANTH 130F
/CRES 130
| Blackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas | 5 |
ANTH 149 | Anthropology of Activism | 5 |
ANTH 194X | Women in Politics: A Third World Perspective | 5 |
CMMU 101 | Communities, Social Movements, and the Third Sector | 5 |
LALS 145 | Grassroots Social Change in Latin America | 5 |
LALS 170 | Indigenous Struggles in the Americas | 5 |
LALS 178 | Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization | 5 |
SOCY 168 | Social Justice | 5 |
SOCY 172 | Sociology of Social Movements | 5 |
Comprehensive Requirement
The comprehensive requirement is fulfilled by completing a senior seminar from the CRES 190 series, or one of the other senior seminars listed below. CRES 190 series courses in the current General Catalog are also listed below; any CRES 190 series course that is listed in a subsequent General Catalog will also satisfy the comprehensive requirement.
Prerequisites for the CRES 190 series include CRES 10 and CRES 100 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Senior seminars outside of CRES may have additional enrollment restrictions or prerequisites.
CRES 190A
/FMST 194S
| Critical Race Feminisms | 5 |
CRES 190B | Critical Migration Studies | 5 |
CRES 190D | Black Geographies and the Imperative of Abolition | 5 |
CRES 190P | Trans of Color Performance and Media | 5 |
CRES 190S | From Slavery to Precarity: Race, Logistics and Globalization | 5 |
CRES 190T | The War on Terror: Imperialism Past and Present | 5 |
CRES 190X | Racial Capitalism | 5 |
FMST 194K
/CRES 190K
| Black Diaspora | 5 |
FMST 194L
/CRES 190L
| Comparative Settler Colonial Studies | 5 |
FMST 194M
/CRES 190M
| Empire and Sexuality | 5 |
FMST 194O
/CRES 190O
| The Politics of Gender and Human Rights | 5 |
FMST 194Q
/CRES 190Q
| Queer Diasporas | 5 |
FMST 194U
/CRES 190U
| Touring War and Empire | 5 |
FMST 194V
/CRES 190V
| Marxism and Feminism | 5 |
ANTH 196G
/CRES 190G
| Queer Worlds: Sexuality, Intimacy and Power in Contemporary Ethnography | 5 |
Planners
The tables below are for informational purposes and do not reflect all university, general education, and credit requirements. See Undergraduate Graduation Requirements for more information.
Four-Year Sample Academic Plan For CRES Major (Frosh)
Students must have satisfied the English language and writing requirement (ELWR) and have completed the C1 requirement in order to enroll in CRES 10. Students who place into C2 in their first fall quarter may enroll in CRES 10 in their first fall quarter.
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Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
1st (frosh) |
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2nd (soph) |
CRES 10 |
CRES 100 |
CRES 101 |
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CRES elective |
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3rd (junior) |
CRES elective |
CRES elective |
CRES elective |
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CRES elective |
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4th (senior) |
CRES elective |
CRES 190 |
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Students must also complete all general education requirements except for ER, which is satisfied by CRES 10.
Two-Year Sample Academic Plan for CRES Major (Transfer Students)
Transfer students should complete their general education (GE) requirements or IGETC before enrolling at UCSC, but this is not a requirement to complete the major within two years of transferring. The CRES major consists of 10 courses, allowing transfer students to complete about two CRES courses per quarter along with additional units to complete the required 180 units for graduation.
Sample Transfer-Students Academic Planner for CRES Major – Fall Admission
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Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
1st (junior) |
CRES 10 |
CRES 100 |
CRES 101 |
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CRES elective |
CRES elective |
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2nd (senior) |
CRES elective |
CRES elective |
CRES 190 |
CRES elective |
CRES elective |
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