Upper-Division

CRES 100 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

Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu

Requirements

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

General Education Code

ER

CRES 101 Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Introduces students to tools, conceptual frameworks, keywords, and methods for research and writing in critical race and ethnic studies. Drawing from ethnic studies, Asian American studies, Arab American studies, Black studies, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, feminist studies, and queer studies, students analyze how scholars do the work of studying the effects of and resistance to U.S. colonialism, capitalism, empire, war, globalization, and migration. Examines questions of settler colonial state practice, dispossession, diaspora, incarceration, and the ethics of research methods. Students practice the craft of writing about race, colonialism, state violence, and the manifold movements that imagine alternative, decolonized futures.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jennifer Mogannam

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

CRES 112 AsianAm Enviro Justice

Explores the concept of environmental racism in a transnational framework, focusing on the shaping of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the United States and in the current and former territories of U.S. empire in the Pacific. Students explore environmental racism within the historical contexts of U.S. militarism and imperial warfare, empire and settler colonialism, disasters and disaster aid, and climate change refugeehood.

Credits

5

CRES 113 Music and Performance

Considers issues of race, place, gender, power, and identities through the converging fields of Black studies and performance studies. Emphasizes global diasporic histories of broad music production and performance from the 14th century onward with an emphasis on the making and performance of global Black social life. Primarily creative in nature, the course allows students to practice creative processes and allows opportunities to produce music and generate performance art.

Credits

5

Instructor

Fahima Ife

General Education Code

PR-C

CRES 115 Frantz Fanon: Resistance, Revolution, and Decolonization

Students immerse themselves in the intellectual, political, and critical thought of 20th-century Martiniquan psychoanalyst, writer, and revolutionary Frantz Fanon. Students closely read several of Fanon’s most noted works, including Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, and The Wretched of the Earth, as well as thinkers Fanon studied and engaged in these works. Class also engages contemporary interpretations of Fanon’s transnational, emancipatory thought and practice from scholarly, aesthetic, and political organizing perspectives.

Credits

5

Instructor

Sophia Azeb

CRES 118 Abolitionist Futures

Grounded in local, national, and global prison abolition movements, this course explores through feminist political frameworks creative strategies that imagine and work to end all systems of domination and exploitation. Looks at California's prisoner organizing and abolition movements, along with other historic and contemporary social movements which deepen our understandings of the ways in which carceral systems are shaped by and through capitalist formations of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Also examines strategies such as disability justice and transformative justice which demonstrate expansive and liberatory visions of abolition, extending far beyond the prison system itself.

Credits

5

CRES 120 Third World Feminisms

Places the thought and praxis developed and pursued by Third Worldist women, queer, and gender nonconforming peoples at the center of a conversation on the conditions of coloniality and pursuits of liberation from the entwined tyrannies of imperial, racial, and gendered oppressions. Course asks how African, Asian, Caribbean, and other Third Worldist women activists, artists, and scholars imagined and defined what liberation might have looked like in the 20th century, and what it might mean today.

Credits

5

Instructor

Sophia Azeb

CRES 121 The Struggle for K-12 Ethnic Studies

Critical analysis of the movement for K-12 ethnic studies in historical and contemporary time periods with a particular focus on the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. Students read, discuss, and analyze past and present K-12 ethnic studies research, policy, and practice to deepen their knowledge and strengthen their ability to critique issues in K-12 ethnic studies education while reflecting on how the concepts and questions that arise relate to their own educational experiences and lives.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

EDUC 121

Instructor

Tricia Gallagher-Geursten

CRES 123 Introduction to Native American & Indigenous Studies

Explores the emergence of Native American and Indigenous Studies as well as the theories, methods, and contemporary issues that inform the field. Centers key concepts and central themes from over the last half century of academic scholarship, and activist organizing, for Indigenous peoples and the decolonization of settler occupied lands.

Credits

5

Instructor

Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar

General Education Code

CC

CRES 127 Indigenous Environmentalisms From Oceania to Native California

Examines Indigenous environmentalist struggles and contemporary movements to protect land and water in California and in Oceania. Course examines three Indigenous women-led movements to protect land and water: Run4Salmon, Sogorea Te Land Trust, and Protect Mauna Kea. Also examines their transnational collaborations with Aotearoa/New Zealand and West Papua.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

FMST 127

Instructor

Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu

General Education Code

PE-E

CRES 131 Black Freedom Movements

Examines the development of Black freedom movements ranging from resistance to slavery to contemporary movements for Black power in Jackson, Mississippi. Interdisciplinary in scope, course examines a variety of materials ranging from novels, to autobiographies, to political manifestos in order to understand fully the broad scope of Black freedom movements.

Credits

5

Instructor

Xavier Livermon

General Education Code

ER

CRES 132 Black Speculations

Traces the heterogenous historic, material, and ephemeral manifestations of Blackness and the Black radical imaginary in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and visionary literary, sonic, and visual cultural forms. Identifies how Black speculative aesthetic, cultural, and political practices reorients understanding of the past, recalibrates elation to the present, remaps assumptive notions of space and time, and allows us to reimagine our futures. Class collectively identifies, interprets, and puts into conversation the meaning-making speculative practices of Black diasporic writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, abolitionists, even in genres and traditions seldom thought of as speculative. Class pays particular attention to Black diasporic/international contributions to these genres.

Credits

5

Instructor

Sophia Azeb

General Education Code

TA

CRES 140 Latina/o/x Geographies

Explores questions like: Who is Latinx? What communities does this include/exclude? How extensive of a geography does Latinidad cover? What is the political usefulness of Latinidad in the face of overwhelming heterogeneity? How does Latinx Geographies reckon with or overcome the anti-Black and de-Indigenizing nationalist projects of Latinidad in Latin America and in the U.S.? Students learn how to define Latinx geographies and evaluate its disciplinary boundaries and assess the work of Latinx geographers and their ability to negotiate historic tensions within academia and Latinx studies.

Credits

5

Instructor

Luis Trujillo

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10.

CRES 150 Race, Gender and Algorithms

Algorithms shape race and gender today, yet algorithms are older than digital media and can be understood as recipes or rituals. Course engages with the emerging field of trans of color poetics by studying readings in women of color feminism, transgender studies, and decolonial theory. Digital media art grounds the discussion, including works from queer and trans artists of color working in digital games, anti-surveillance fashion and performance art. Students create digital media projects in response to the ideas of the course, in the medium or platform of their choice, including video prototypes, web sites, Scalar books, Twine games, podcasts and/or video channels, the technical aspects of which will be covered in class.

Credits

5

Instructor

Micha Cardenas

CRES 151 After Man: Race, Gender and Technology

As Sylvia Wynter and many of the other authors to be read this quarter point out, the definition of the human has historically excluded racialized peoples, gender non-conforming people, indigenous people, disabled people, and even at times cisgender women. This class examines the intersection of science and justice to understand how the border of the human is used to reinforce anti-blackness, xenophobia, transphobia and many other forms of social oppression.

Credits

5

Instructor

Micha Cárdenas

General Education Code

PE-T

CRES 153 A Radical History of the Korean War

Against dominant framings of the Korean War, which left 4 million Koreans dead, as the freeing of the Korean people by the United States from the forces of global communism, this course reconsiders the war, which has never formally ended, from below and to the left, namely, through the lenses of multigenerational people's struggles against fascism and imperialism. Through collaborative, participatory research, students materialize from the ashbin of history what might be called a people's archive of the Korean War.

Credits

5

Instructor

Christine Hong

General Education Code

CC

CRES 160 Latina/o/x Geographies

Explores questions like: Who is Latinx? What communities does this include/exclude? How extensive of a geography does Latinidad cover? What is the political usefulness of Latinidad in the face of overwhelming heterogeneity? How does Latinx Geographies reckon with or overcome the anti-Black and de-Indigenizing nationalist projects of Latinidad in Latin America and in the U.S.? Students learn how to define Latinx geographies and evaluate its disciplinary boundaries and assess the work of Latinx geographers and their ability to negotiate historic tensions within academia and Latinx studies.

Credits

5

Instructor

Luis Trujillo

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10.

CRES 161 The Racial and Gendered Economies of Housing

Explores the political and libidinal economic dimensions of the housing market and their relation as analytics to explain the development of the housing market over the 20th and 21st centuries. Explores the interdependence of political and libidinal factors in influencing the operation and management of housing markets from public and private entities. Course pays special attention to the role of race (in addition to other determinants of difference: gender, class, etc.) in structuring housing’s libidinal and political economies. Students cannot receive credit for this course and CRES 261.

Credits

5

Instructor

Luis Trujillo

Requirements

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

General Education Code

ER

CRES 170 Arab Diasporic Communities

Situates Arab American studies and the study of Arab and Muslim diasporic communities originating from the region within a broader global racial order and through an intersectional approach. This course can be used to satisfy the CRES Transnational or Social Movement requirement if completed with a C/P or better.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jennifer Mogannam

General Education Code

ER

CRES 171 Arab Feminist Visions

Examines how global and historical factors contribute to the manufacturing of gender as a social construction of power in the Arab World. Draws on lived experiences of Arab/Muslim women and illuminates the ways in which they articulate gender and feminism, providing a community-centered alternative narrative on such questions. This course can be used to satisfy the CRES Transnational requirement if completed with a C/P or better.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jennifer Mogannam

General Education Code

CC

CRES 172 Arab Uprising: Movements, Revolutions, and Praxis

Situates the historical and present conditions, through a multiplicity of local, regional, and global configurations of power, that work to repress and mobilize the Arab masses. Course centers 20th- and 21st-century movements and revolutions with the aim of understanding these uprisings in their given contexts and analyzing what we can learn about praxis through them. This course can be used to satisfy the CRES Transnational or Social Movement Requirement if completed with a C/P or better. 

Credits

5

Instructor

Jennifer Mogannam

General Education Code

PE-H

CRES 173 Palestine: A History from Below

Offers a chronological trajectory of more than 100 years of Palestinian history from the diverse perspectives of Palestinians as knowledge producers in transnational community.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jennifer Mogannam

General Education Code

ER

CRES 179A Critical Filipinx Poetics: A Workshop for Reading and Writing Poetry

Writing workshop exploring the aesthetic and critical engagements of Filipina/o/x poets. Students analyze authors’ prosody and craft, and explore thematization of migration, family, violence, culture, history, and agency. How do Filipinx poets address racialization, gendering, sexuality, class, and citizenship? What are their commitments to place, the divine, multilingualism, and the natural world? Students also write and workshop poems. Assignments: portfolio of three poems, in-class writing exercises, revised poem drafts, peer review comments, and performance of poems in class and at one public reading.

Credits

5

Instructor

Melisa Casumbal-Salazar

General Education Code

PR-C

CRES 185 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. (Formerly CRES 185A.)

Credits

5

Instructor

M Ty

CRES 188A Topics in Transnational Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies

Focuses on a particular topic in Asian American and Pacific Islander studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, with a focus on a transnational critique of intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, lived experiences and critical theories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

CRES 188B Topics in Black Studies

Focuses on a particular topic in black studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, with a focus on the intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, lived experiences, and critical theories of peoples throughout the Black diaspora and Africa.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

CRES 188M Topics in Critical Migration Studies

Focuses on a particular topic in migrant and migration studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include examining the intersections of race, gender, and citizenship through a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, intellectual histories, and political movements as they relate to labor and capital, imperialism and neoliberalism, the racialized criminalization of movement, detention and deportation, and violence against migrant workers.

Credits

5

CRES 188S Topics in Settler Colonial Critique

Focuses on a particular topic in settler and colonial studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include examining the intersections of race and racism through a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, intellectual histories, and political movements as they relate to empire, racial capitalization, colonial occupation and dispossession, mass incarceration and concepts of property and accumulation.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

ER

CRES 188T Topics in Race, Science and Technology

Focuses on a particular topic in race and science/technology. Topics vary, but focus on the history and politics of scientific inquiry and technological development within legacies and realities of racism and colonialism, including in the areas of public health, migration, labor, and reproductive rights.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

CRES 188X Topics in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Focuses on a particular topic in critical race and ethnic studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including indigenous studies, Black studies, Latinx studies, Asian American studies, queer critique, gender studies, transgender studies, performance studies, human rights studies, mixed race studies, legal studies, critical area studies, war and empire studies, environmental studies, science studies, and critical university studies.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

CRES 190A 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

Fahima Ife

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190B Critical Migration Studies

Focuses on critically analyzing public representations of migration. Exploring key scholarship in migration and diaspora studies, including recent writings on "border crises," students develop an individual research project exploring a controversy, archive, cultural text, or historical debate in research on a specific migrant or diasporic group. The focus is on key learning outcomes of humanistic research and writing: developing a method for studying migration attentive to critical race analysis; identifying objects and fields of study, formulating research questions, organizing an appropriately narrow thesis, identifying and critiquing sources, and completing well-structured written argumentation.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190C The Black Transnational

Senior seminar focusing on the transnational circulation of Black political and cultural thought and practice in the 20th century. Explores the dynamics of Black transnational circulations beyond (and often in spite of) imposed national and international borders that have historically and continue presently to dictate, criminalize, or otherwise obstruct or limit the free movement of Black peoples. Aims to permit students to trace the multidirectional, radical imaginary of such Black diasporic circulations, cataloguing the possibilities that Black transnational political and cultural thought and practice engendered alongside the differences and contestations these formations might reveal.

Credits

5

Instructor

Sophia Azeb

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190D Black Geographies and the Imperative of Abolition

Far from a recent development, abolitionist demands to defund the police are actually central to a 400-year legacy of Black struggle. In the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings that erupted in response to several high-profile police murders, this senior seminar takes an interdisciplinary look at the burgeoning field of Black geographies to help us understand the renewed urgency of these calls in our current moment by engaging with works of activism, speculative fiction, and multimedia, including videos, podcasts, music, websites, and graphics.

Credits

5

Instructor

Camilla Hawthorne

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190F Black Queer Film

Students critically examine public representations of Black queer and trans communities. Work is grounded in analysis of Black feminist, Black queer, and Black trans thought in relation to critical media studies.

Credits

5

Instructor

Fahima Ife

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190N Science/Fiction and the Possible

Where are the limits of our imaginations around science and technology? How does existing science fiction reimagine the same old kinds of science, technology, and social and political relations between people? How do they wildly reimagine all these categories? This senior seminar analyzes and creates short pieces of speculative fiction that imagine new political configurations capable of giving rise to different forms of science and technology than those currently on offer. Class collates these into an anthology, and culminate the course with a public reading of our work.

Credits

5

Instructor

Kriti Sharma

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

General Education Code

PE-T

CRES 190P Trans of Color Performance and Media

Trans of color poetics is a decolonial method of study and creation that decenters Western conceptions of gender, race, and identity. Students study trans of color performance and media art, and create performance art in response. Trans of color poetics is an emerging field that is in dialog with queer of color theory and women of color feminism. Students also read trans of color theory and learn about these genealogies, and read performance studies and watch performance artworks to understand the genres of performance and media art as artistic movements where artists make art with bodies in time and space. Assignments include performances on video and photo, as well as writing assignments.

Credits

5

Instructor

Micha Cardenas

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190S From Slavery to Precarity: Race, Logistics and Globalization

Over the past half-century, there has been a profound transformation in the way that goods are produced and moved about the world resulting in what has been referred to as the "logistics revolution". Course examines the ways in which this "revolution" in mass circulation of goods necessitates a radical thinking of race and racial politics in the context of contemporary capitalist globalization.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190T The War on Terror: Imperialism Past and Present

Senior seminar focusing on the theoretical underpinnings of U.S. imperialism from a global perspective, from the annexation of the Philippines in 1898 to the current War on Terror. Drawing on the history of U.S. settler-colonialism and liberal empire as racial projects, the course investigates contemporary forms of racialization surrounding the Muslim as figure for foreign enemy. Utilizing a diverse range of media, course considers various theoretical texts in critical race and ethnic studies, visual studies, gender and queer studies, history, and literature.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190X Racial Capitalism

Overview of the history and conceptualization of racial capitalism. Students study recent works in critical race and ethnic studies that analyze capitalism as a specifically racial phenomenon, and evaluate their contribution in a historical lens.

Credits

5

Instructor

Nick Mitchell

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior CRES majors.

CRES 190Y Solidarity

Considers different moments in movement work—for example, solidarity with Palestine, #NODAPL, Mauna Kea, Black freedom struggles, ACT UP, trans liberation, and beyond—and explores the failures and liberatory potential of solidarity. Students read theoretical meditations on solidarity, thinking through what it means to study solidarity, and also consider how solidarity can require risk, danger, and loss. Most importantly, course studies what it means to craft horizontal networks of care in the face of the ceaseless demands to (re)produce hierarchical ones.

Credits

5

Instructor

Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100, and CRES 101; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

General Education Code

ER

CRES 192 Directed Student Teaching

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

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

CRES 194 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

CRES 199 Tutorial

Students submit a petition to the sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

CRES 199F 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

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Cross-listed courses that are managed by another department are listed at the bottom.

Cross-listed Courses

ANTH 110G Westside Stories: Race, Place and the California Imaginary

From South Central to La Misión, this course explores the role of race and culture in creating the California Dream. Draws on films, music, and activism as lenses into the complex flows of power that shape our communities.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 110G

General Education Code

IM

ANTH 130F Blackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas

What connects Black communities in the Caribbean, the U.S., Latin America, and Canada, and what sets them apart? Examines theories of diaspora, gender and sexuality, slavery, colorism, music, U.S. hegemonies, social movements, and comparative racialization and global anti-blackness (Formerly African Diasporas in the Americas.)

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 130

General Education Code

CC

ANTH 130IG Cultures of India Abroad

An examination of anthropological studies of tribal, rural, and urban cultures of India and a look at changes taking place in India.

Credits

5

General Education Code

ER

ANTH 140 The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections

Explores medical and environmental anthropologies, including how bodies-human and other-are implicated in processes often figured as environmental. Explores how the body and the environment combine and interact to form nexus of political, cultural, and material forces.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 140

General Education Code

PE-E

ANTH 196G Queer Worlds: Sexuality, Intimacy and Power in Contemporary Ethnography

How do we read, write, and recognize the queer body? How is it marked in politics, in intimate spaces, and in the ethnographic text? Drawing on ethnic studies and black queer studies, this seminar engages contemporary anthropological approaches to sexuality.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190G

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; and ANTH 1, ANTH 2, and ANTH 3. Enrollment is restricted to senior anthropology majors.

ARTG 142 Black Aesthetics: Interventions in Digital Media

How do we conceptualize a Black Aesthetic in the realm of digital art and media? How do we re/define Black virtuality when, historically, computer graphics has failed to accurately render Blackness? This course looks at the field of digital media from a technological and cultural perspective, understanding the ways in which anti-Blackness has been embedded in our technology, from photography to video games. Concurrently, course examines the history of the Black Aesthetic as an interventionist art movement, and find ways to intervene in the contemporary digital media landscape.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 142

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior art and design: games and playable media, and critical race and ethnic studies majors, and Black studies minors.

General Education Code

PE-T

FIL 82 Introduction to Filipino Language & Culture

Introduction to Filipino language and culture. Four skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) in basic Filipino (Tagalog), with readings and discussion of critical contemporary thought (decolonization, gender, social movements) in English. For heritage speakers and second-language learners.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 82

FMST 136 Organizing for Water Justice in California

Investigates, imagines, and practices movement toward water justice in California using feminist, Indigenous, and critical race theory. The course includes collaborative projects with environmental justice organizers in the Central Valley, and offers new ways of thinking about water inequity and access through racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and critical theories of place.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 136, ENVS 136

General Education Code

PR-E

FMST 194K Black Diaspora

Seminar focuses on the historical and subjective processes that produce the concept of an African or Black Diaspora. In narrative, film, and cultural studies, themes of slavery, exile, home, identity, alienation, colonialism, politics, and reinvention are explored.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190K

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194M Empire and Sexuality

Explores the production of sexualities, sexual identification, and gender differentiation within multiple contexts of colonialism, decolonization, and emerging neo-colonial global formations.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190M

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194O The Politics of Gender and Human Rights

Examines human rights projects and discourses with a focus on the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and rights in the international sphere. Reading important human rights documents and theoretical writings, and addressing particular case studies, emphasizes the tensions between the ideals of the universal and the particular inherent in human rights law, activism, and humanitarianism.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190O

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194Q Queer Diasporas

Queer diaspora emerged from Third World/queer-of-color critique of queer theory and provides a framework for analyzing racializations, genders, and sexualities in colonial, developmental, and modernizing contexts. Readings from anthropology, history, literature, and feminist and cultural studies.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190Q

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194R Histories of the Carceral State

Surveys how over the course of the 20th century and into the present, the U.S. prison system has metastasized with more than 2 million people locked in cages and many millions more under forms of correctional supervision such as parole, probation, or deportation order, as well as the expansion of a policing apparatus that surveils, stops and frisks, asks for "papers, please," and shoots first. Recently, historians have produced works exploring the origins of this era of racialized police terror, criminalization, mass incarceration, and deportation. Course surveys key works in carceral studies while guiding students through the process of crafting their own original research projects.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190R

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1, FMST 100, and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194U Touring War and Empire

Senior seminar focusing on tourism, colonialism, and militarism. Considers case studies on tourism in colonial contexts and sites of U.S. empire across multiple geographies as students craft their projects, participate in writing workshops, and present research.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190U

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194V Marxism and Feminism

Explores critically the intersections and crisis points between feminism and Marxism as bodies of thought, theoretical formations, and forms of historical inquiry.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190V

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 208 African(a) Genders and Sexualities

Examines a number of classic and new critical texts in the field of African(a) Feminism and Sexuality. Focuses on how African(a) scholars have had to theorize genders and sexualities through an intersectional lens that takes into account questions of decoloniality and freedom. How might we rethink issues of oppression and domination in relationship to race, nation, sex, gender, and sexuality in the global Black world using the tools provided by Africa(a) scholars?

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 208

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 210 Sex and the Carceral State

The expansion of the state's carceral capacity over the course of the 20th century and into the present has been intimately connected to ideas about sex, gender. This course examines the ways that sex has been a target of the carceral state at the same time that policing and incarceration have shaped our understanding of sexuality and gender. Rather than focusing solely on repression, course also examines how feminists and queer activists have challenged carceral logics and practices and imagined expansive forms of freedom, justice, and safety.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 210

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 213 Colonialism, Racial Capitalism and Surveillance

Course asks students to consider surveillance technologies beyond the history of modernity and the rise of bureaucratic governance as well as the framework of liberal understandings of the right to privacy. Instead, students examine the ways colonialism and racial capitalism are structured within surveillance technologies, or violent modes of "seeing" that contribute to the brutal genocide, dehumanization, containment, extraction, and enslavement of bodies and land.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 213

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 218 Militarism and Tourism

Positioning tourism and militarism as central sites of inquiry for feminist and ethnic studies, course draws from literature on colonialism and empire to illuminate how tourism functions and how tourists move, in sites of past and present warfare.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 218

FMST 224 Reproductive Justice

Explores practices of reproductive labor, care and justice, centering global south and transnational perspectives. Readings draw from ethnography alongside critical race, feminist, and queer theory to trouble the concepts of the body, agency, and freedom that have shaped dominant discourses of reproductive politics such as, the "right to choose," along with secular liberal frameworks of justice more broadly. Aims to expand vision of what is possible and necessary in our contemporary moment of heightened contestation over reproductive life and rights.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 224

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 243 Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Knowledge

Course takes as its central topic the institutional politics of feminist and critical race knowledges in the post-1960s United States university. Considers these fields' complex and contradictory relation to disciplinarity, the university's primary or default mode of arranging and legitimizing knowledge formations.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 243

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 9C California Indian History

California encompasses the nation's largest Native population and the state's policies create a complex political and legal structure. This course provides a history of early California in the 18th and 19th centuries and a review of the urban Indian experience in the 20th century. The first part sets the historical foundation and traces early California Indian history. The second part shifts to 20th-century urban Indian issues and the contemporary moment for California Indian peoples. Covers topics such as Indian labor exploitation, genocide, termination, relocation, and federal recognition. (Formerly FMST 13.)

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 13

Instructor

Caitlin Keliiaa

General Education Code

ER

HISC 117 Making the Refugee Century: Non-Citizens and Modernity

Examines the material, discursive, and racialized conditions that have produced refugees in the last century. Also examines the social claims made by refugees, institutional responses to them, and political alternatives to state belonging

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 117

General Education Code

CC

HISC 140A Africa: How to Make a Continent

Introduces the histories of exploration, museum collection, and photography that shape historical and contemporary ideas about race, culture, and place in Africa.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 140A

General Education Code

CC

LING 135 Language and Racialization

Many of us are probably aware that people of different ethnic or racial backgrounds may speak differently, but most of us probably do not know that all varieties of English are equally "grammatical." And while some of us are probably aware of the fact that racial and ethnic categories are "constructed," most of us have probably not considered the ways in which language use figures in the construction of ethnic and/or racial identity. Course introduces a number of racialized linguistic varieties and their intersections with other identity categories (gender, sexuality, socio-economic class), as well as emergent new scholarship on language and racialization.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 135

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Ling 50.

General Education Code

ER

LIT 179E Writing for Transformation

Introductory cross-genre writing workshop exploring the social and political engagements of a wide array of BIPOC authors’ work. In interactive lectures and small group discussion,students analyze authors’ use of craft and form to inspire creation of our own poetry, flash nonfiction, and flash fiction. Course considers how authors thematize family, community, language, activism, love, culture, health, state and structural violence, relations with our natural environment, and more.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 179E

Instructor

Melissa Casumbal

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to declared and proposed literature and critical race and ethnic studies majors, literature minors, and Black studies minors.

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Spring

PSYC 148 Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Racism

Introduction to and analysis of the social psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, and racism in the United States. Examines how individuals both perpetuate and experience these phenomena, through the lens of race as a system of privilege and disadvantage.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 148

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100.

SOCY 268A Science and Justice: Experiments in Collaboration

Considers the practical and epistemological necessity of collaborative research in the development of new sciences and technologies that are attentive to questions of ethics and justice. Enrollment is by permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

BME 268A, FMST 268A, CRES 268A