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Twin Cities Campus
Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality MinorAnthropology
College of Liberal Arts
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative
310 Scott Hall
72 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-626-1313
Email:
ridgs@umn.edu
Website: https://cla.umn.edu/ridgs
The RIDGS graduate minor is the critical and comparative study of significant social categories of power and inequality, namely race, ethnicity, indigeneity, disability, gender, sexuality, class, sovereignty, and diaspora. This interdisciplinary minor foregrounds a transnational and comparative framework to analyze these multiple forms of social difference and their interactions in relation to one another. While the focus is on the United States, given the minor’s attention to the making of social categories and borders, the analytical lens and purview of the minor will be transnational in scale and scope.
Seminars in the minor are grounded by a strong commitment to the analysis and understanding of power relations, structural inequality, and social justice through a relational and multidisciplinary approach. The RIDGS graduate minor focuses on the processes that constitute the categories and groups in the first place, rather than juxtaposing discrete groups, and offers tools for theorizing their mutual constitution. Accordingly, this graduate minor privileges intersectionality, interdisciplinary, transnationalism, comparison, and relationality. What distinguishes this graduate minor is its conceptual and theoretical approach, which not only makes this program complementary to existing graduate courses of study at UMN, but also engages multiscalar justice and equity discourses, in historical and contemporary perspectives.
The RIDGS graduate minor strengthens student work in their major field of study as students learn how best to integrate critical and comparative race, ethnicity, indigeneity, disability, gender and sexuality theories and methodologies into their existing work.
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
Special Application Requirements:
Students interested in the minor are strongly encouraged to confer with their major field advisor and director of graduate studies, and the Race, Indigeneity, Gender, Disability, and Sexuality (RIDGS) director of graduate studies regarding feasibility and requirements.
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the
General Information section of this
website.
Program Requirements
Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.
Courses offered for variable credit must be taken for 3 credits and any 4xxx-level coursework requires pre-approval by the RIDGS director of graduate studies.
The minimum cumulative GPA for minor field coursework is 3.00.
Proseminar (3 credits)
Select 1 of the following courses in consultation with the RIGS director of graduate studies. If HIST 8910 Topics is chosen, take Race and Class in the United States for 3 credits.
AFRO 8202 - Seminar: Intellectual History of Race
(3.0 cr)
HIST 8910 - Topics in U.S. History
(1.0-4.0 cr)
SOC 8211 - The Sociology of Race & Racialization
(3.0 cr)
Electives (3-6 credits)
Master's students select 3 credits, and doctoral students select 6 credits in consultation with the RIDGS director of graduate studies.
Topics courses must be taken for 3 credits in the section noted: AMIN 8910 AmInd & Indigenous Studies; ANTH 8510 Decolonizing Archives; ANTH 8810 Anthro of Capitalism; HIST 5910 Am Colonial & Indigenous Hist; HIST 5910 Intersect of Native & AfAm Hist; HIST 8910 Race & Class in US; HIST 8960 Politics of Land; HIST 8970 W. Imperialisms; POL 8260 Theorizing Violence; SOC 8090 Soc of Black Exp; SOC 8190 Genocide & Mass Violence.
AFRO 5866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984
(3.0 cr)
AFRO 8202 - Seminar: Intellectual History of Race
(3.0 cr)
AMIN 5402 - American Indians and the Cinema
[AH, DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
AMIN 5409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives
[HIS, DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
AMIN 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms
[GP]
(3.0 cr)
AMIN 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History
(3.0 cr)
AMIN 5920 - Topics in American Indian Studies
(3.0 cr)
AMIN 8301 - Critical Indigenous Theory
(3.0 cr)
AMIN 8910 - Topics in American Indian and Indigenous Studies
(1.0-3.0 cr)
AMST 5920 - Topics in American Studies
(1.0-4.0 cr)
ANTH 8203 - Research Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology
(3.0 cr)
ANTH 8510 - Topics in Archaeology
(3.0 cr)
ANTH 8810 - Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology
(3.0 cr)
CHIC 5374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy
[CIV]
(4.0 cr)
CI 8416 - Speculative Fiction, Radical Imagination, and Social Change
(3.0 cr)
CI 8645 - Indigenous Language Revitalization and Activist Research Methods
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 5104 - Transnational Feminist Theory
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 8260 - Seminar: Race, Representation and Resistance
(3.0 cr)
HIST 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History
(3.0 cr)
HIST 5910 - Topics in U.S. History
(1.0-4.0 cr)
HIST 8910 - Topics in U.S. History
(1.0-4.0 cr)
HIST 8960 - Topics in History
(1.0-4.0 cr)
HIST 8970 - Advanced Research in Quantitative History
(3.0 cr)
HSPH 8003 - Race and Indigeneity in Heritage Representation
(3.0 cr)
PA 5690 - Topics in Women, Gender and Public Policy
(0.5-3.0 cr)
PA 8690 - Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Public Policy
(1.0-3.0 cr)
POL 8260 - Topics in Political Theory
(3.0 cr)
SOC 8090 - Topics in Sociology
(1.5-3.0 cr)
SOC 8190 - Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance
(3.0 cr)
SOC 8211 - The Sociology of Race & Racialization
(3.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.
Masters
Doctoral
Interdisciplinary Methodologies (3 credits)
Doctoral minors select 1 of the following courses in consultation with the RIDGS director of graduate studies:
AMST 8289 - Ethnographic Research Methods: Research Strategies in American Studies
(3.0 cr)
ANTH 8203 - Research Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology
(3.0 cr)
COMM 8110 - Seminar: Communication Research Methods
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 8201 - Feminist Theory and Methods in the Social Sciences
(3.0 cr)
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