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AFRO 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AMST 3113W - Global Minnesota: Diversity in the 21st Century (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Diverse cultural (racial, ethnic, class) groups in America. Institutions/processes that shape their relations and create domination, resistance, hybridity, nationalism, racism, alliance. Specific content may vary.

ANTH 4047 - Anthropology of American Culture (SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Anthropological approaches to contemporary American society/culture. Tensions between market and family. Unity, diversity. Individualism, community.

GWSS 3002W - Gender, Race, and Class in the U.S. (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3002W/GWSS 3002V
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative study of women, gender, race, class, sexuality in two or more ethnic cultures throughout U.S.

GWSS 3203W - Blood, Bodies and Science (TS, SOCS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

This course examines the contemporary politics of health and medicine from a critical race theory, disability-oriented, and feminist/queer/trans perspective. Who is understood to be deserving of health and medical care? Who should decide how to govern the provision of care? Who, if anyone should profit from life-saving medical treatment or medicines? How did we come to have the health system we have now? How have Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and people of color communities fought for access to equitable health care in the context of the racial history of medicine and health? Struggles for justice and equity in health and medicine are integrally related to the question of how society treats people who are in need of care. Topics include the history of DIY health movements; trans health care bans; the science and history of pandemics, including Covid and HIV; the history of health insurance; struggles for global equity in vaccines and pharmaceuticals; disability; reproductive justice movements; and the history of eugenics.

GWSS 3303W - Writing Differences: Literature by U.S. Women of Color (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3303W/ENGL 3303W/GWSS 3303
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Interpret/analyze poetry, fiction, and drama of U.S. women minority writers. Relationship of writer's history, ethnicity, race, class, and gender to her writings.

HIST 3875W - Comparative Race and Ethnicity in US History (HIS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3875W/Hist 3875W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America to learn from and engage with what historians enmeshed in ethnic studies do. These historians examine the systematic and coordinated exercises of power called race in the American past and make legible how racially aggrieved groups responded to this shaping power. Thus, throughout, we ask, "What did racial subjects do with what was done to them by the American system forged out of settler colonialism, slavery, racism, and other forms of injustice, exclusion, and violence?" This question issues an intellectual challenge to do all that needs to be done to capture community life, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of social identities in all their richness, fullness, and complexity. In other words, we study and write about the racial history of modern America, including its ugly past and arc of justice, to consider what it would take to transcend this racial past.

SOC 3211W - Race and Racism in the US (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3211W/Soc 3211W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

We live in a society steeped in racial understandings that are often invisible?some that are hard to see, and others that we work hard not to see. This course will focus on race relations in today's society with a historical overview of the experiences of various racial and ethnic groups in order to help explain their present-day social status. This course is designed to help students begin to develop their own informed perspectives on American racial ?problems? by introducing them to the ways that sociologists deal with race, ethnicity, race relations and racism. We will expand our understanding of racial and ethnic dynamics by exploring the experiences of specific groups in the U.S. and how race/ethnicity intersects with sources of stratification such as class, nationality, and gender. The course will conclude by re-considering ideas about assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism. Throughout, our goal will be to consider race both as a source of identity and social differentiation as well as a system of privilege, power, and inequality affecting everyone in the society albeit in different ways.

AAS 3301 - Asian America Through Arts and Culture (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3301/EngL 3301
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

The course focuses on the close analysis and interpretation of individual works by a range of modern and contemporary artists. Students will analyze, critique, and interpret these works in light of the historical and social contexts in which they were produced, their creation and uses of aesthetic form, and their impact on individuals and communities. Discussion, writing assignments, and oral presentations will focus on different ways of encountering and evaluating artistic work; for instance, students will write critical analyses and production reviews as well as dialogue more informally through weekly journal entries and online discussion forums. We will examine what it means to define artists and their work as being "Asian American" and explore how other categories of identity such as gender, sexuality, or class intersect with race. We will study how art works not only as individual creativity but also as communal and social practice; for instance, we look at the history of theaters, such as East-West Players or Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, that have sustained Asian Americans as actors, playwrights, and designers.

AAS 4311 - Asian American Literature and Drama (LITR, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4311/ENGL 4311
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Literary/dramatic works by Asian American writers. Historical past of Asian America through perspective of writers such as Sui Sin Far and Carlos Bulosan. Contemporary artists such as Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, and Han Ong. Political/historical background of Asian American artists, their aesthetic choices.

AFRO 3112 - In the Heart of the Beat: the Poetry of Rap

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Contemporary African American poetry as expressed by popular culture contributors. Students analyze/evaluate poems used in rap, in context of African American literature, American culture, and aesthetics.

AFRO 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analytical overview of three major forms of inequalities in the United Sates today: race, class, gender. Focus on these inequalities as relatively autonomous from one another and as deeply connected/intertwined with one another. Intersectionality key to critical understanding of these social forces. Social change possibilities.

AFRO 3597W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture I (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3597W/EngL 3597W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

African American oral tradition, slave narrative, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, and drama, from colonial era through Harlem Renaissance.

AFRO 3598W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture II (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3598W/EngL 3598W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

African American oral tradition, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, drama. From after Harlem Renaissance to end of 20th century.

AFRO 3864 - African American History: 1619 to 1865 (HIS, CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3864/Hist 3864
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Importance of dynamics of class, gender, region, and political ideology. Changing nature of race/racism.

AFRO 3865 - African American History: 1865 to the Present

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3865/Hist 3865
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

History of African American men and women from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Discussion of internal migrations, industrialization and unionization, The Great Depression, world wars, and large scale movements for social and political change.

AFRO 3866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3866/Afro 5866/Hist 3856
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Modern black civil rights struggle in the U.S., i.e., the second reconstruction. Failure of reconstruction, abdication of black civil rights in 19th century. Assault on white supremacy via courts, state, and grass roots southern movement in 1950s and 1960s. Black struggle in north and west. New emphasis on Black Power, by new organizations. Ascendancy of Ronald Reagan, conservative assault on the movement.

AMIN 3201W - American Indian Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3201W/EngL 3201W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Comparative studies of oral traditions, modern literature from various tribal cultures.

AMIN 3301 - American Indian Philosophies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3301/RelS 3321
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

World views of indigenous people of Americas. Topics include native medicines/healing practices, ceremonies/ritual, governance, ecology, humor, tribal histories, status of contemporary native people.

AMIN 3409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

AMIN 3501 - Indigenous Tribal Governments and Politics (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3501/Pol 3701
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

History, development, structure, politics of American Indian Governments. North American indigenous societies from pre-colonial times to present. Evolution of aboriginal governments confronted/affected by colonizing forces of European/Euro-American states. Bearing of dual citizenship on nature/powers of tribal governments in relation to states, federal government.

AMIN 3871 - American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830 (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3871
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

American Indian history from the era of ancient Native America to the removal era. Social, cultural, political, and economic diversity of Native American peoples and Native American experiences with European colonialism.

AMIN 3872 - American Indian History: 1830 to the Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3872
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Focus on the impact of federal Indian policy on American Indian cultures and societies, and on American Indian culture change.

AMST 3001 - Contemporary Perspectives on Asian America (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3001/AmSt 3001
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interdisciplinary overview of Asian American identities. Post-1965 migration/community. History, cultural productions, and concerns of Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Filipino, and Southeast Asian ancestry.

CHIC 3212 - Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3212/GWSS 3212/GWSS 3410
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.

CHIC 3223 - Chicana/o and Latina/o Representation in Film (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o visual representation. Depiction of Latina/o experience, history, and culture in film. Analyzing independent/commercial films as texts that illuminate deeply held beliefs around race, class, ethnicity, gender, and national origin.

CHIC 3444 - Chicana and Chicano History I (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3444GloS 3634/Hist 3444
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the United States. Important eras in histories of Mexico, the United States, and Mexican Americans. Central role of Chicana/os in U.S. history, culture, and politics. Topics include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, migration.

CHIC 3446 - Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3446/Hist 3446
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, changing demographics. Social, economic, and political changes that influenced day-to-day life of Mexican Americans. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans and other Latino groups.

CHIC 3452 - Chicanx/LatinX Indigeneity (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Historical, cultural, and political processes impacting Chicanas/os and their understanding of being indigenous to the North American continent. History, culture, and identity formation as dynamic processes intimately related to present and future constructions of Mexican American identities and sociopolitical perspectives.

CHIC 3507W - Introduction to Chicana/o Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3507W/EngL 3507W
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Cultural, intellectual, and sociopolitical traditions of Mexican Americans as they are represented in creative literature. Genres/forms of creative cultural expression and their significance as representations of social, cultural, and political life in the United States. Novels, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, essay, poetry, and hybrid forms of literature.

GWSS 3409W - Asian American Women's Cultural Production (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3409W/GWSS 3409W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analysis of media, art, literature, performance, on artistic contributions. History, politics, culture of Asian American women. Interpret cultural production to better understand role of race, gender, nation within American society/citizenship.

GWSS 4401 - Chicana/Latina Cultural Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 4401/GWSS 4401
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Readings in Chicana/Latina cultural studies. TV, film, art, music, dance, theatre, literature. Identity/sexuality. Production of culture/theory.

HIST 3877 - Asian American History, 1850-Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3877/HIST 3877
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Asian American history and contemporary issues, from 1850 to the present. Immigration, labor, anti-Asian movements, women/families, impact of World War Two, new immigrant/refugee communities, civil rights, Asian American identity/culture.

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