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Program Office: 428 Warner Hall Director: Teresa Burns Phone: 342-1928 E-mail: burnst@uwplatt.edu The Ethnic Studies Program Council includes Carl Allsup, Ethnic Studies; Stephanie Branson, Humanities; Roslyn Broussard, Social Sciences; Teresa Burns, Humanities; Tom LoGuidice, Education; Joseph Lomax, Criminal Justice; Rea Kirk, Education; John Krogman, General Engineering; Donney Moroney, Multicultural Student Services; Sherrie Nicol, Mathematics; John Nkemnji, Education; Richard Waugh, Social Sciences; Kay Winder, Fine Arts; and David Zierath, Sociology. The Ethnic Studies Program is dedicated to awakening the minds and spirits of students and others to the issues of race and ethnicity in the United States and the social realities and moral challenges of racism in U.S. culture. It strives to help students fulfill their intellectual, moral, and social potential, and encourages them to remove barriers which can prevent others from achieving their potential. It promotes the study of race and ethnicity in historical, social, and political structures, and supports and encourages the integration of the vast new scholarship which questions, analyzes, and narrates the role of race and ethnicity in the United States. The Ethnic Studies Program oversees the UWP Design for Diversity curriculum requirement that every student in a degree program must complete a three-credit course on issues of race and ethnicity.
Certificate in Ethnic Studies (15 credits)
ES 1030 Race, Gender, and Class in the U.S. OR ES 2200 Introduction to Ethnic Studies Plus 12 credits selected from the following courses: ES 2130 The Native American Experience ES 3400 History of Chicano Peoples in the U.S. ES 2730/ART 2730 Ethnic Art in the United States ES 2830/CJ 2830 Ethnicity, Race, and Crime ES 2930/ENGL 2930 Minority Women Writers of the U.S. ES 3230/SOC 3230 Human Relations ES 3240/HIST 3240 African-American History: 1619 to present BSAD 3340 Ethnic and Gender Issues in Management ES 3630/TCHG 3630 Ethnic and Gender Equity in Education ES 3720/POSC 3730 Ethnic Rights and Politics ES 3730/ENGL 3730 Black Literature in America ES 3740/ENGL 3740 Asian-American Literature ES 3750/ENGL 3750 American Literature of Ethnicity and Immigration ES 3830/WS 3830 Black Women and Feminism in the U.S.
Minor in Ethnic Studies (24 credits)
ES 1030 Race, Gender, and Class in the U.S. OR ES 2200 Introduction to Ethnic Studies Plus 21 credits selected from the following courses: ES 2130 The Native American Experience ES 3400 History of Chicano Peoples in the U.S. ES 2730/ART 2730 Ethnic Art in the United States ES 2830/CJ 2830 Ethnicity, Race, and Crime ES 2930/ENGL 2930 Minority Women Writers of the U.S. ES 3230/SOC 3230 Human Relations ES 3240/HIST 3240 African-American History: 1619 to present BSAD 3340 Ethnic and Gender Issues in Management ES 3630/TCHG 3630 Ethnic and Gender Equity in Education ES 3720/POSC 3730 Ethnic Rights and Politics ES 3730/ENGL 3730 Black Literature in America ES 3740/ENGL 3740 Asian-American Literature ES 3750/ENGL 3750 American Literature of Ethnicity and Immigration ES 3830/WS 3830 Black Women and Feminism in the U.S.
Courses OfferedEthnic Studies
ES 1030 3 credits Race, Gender, and ClassExamines the concepts of race, gender, and class in the United States as these influences are related historically to form a matrix that serves as a comprehensive basis for understanding the contemporary society of the United States. GE: EGS ES 2130 3 credits The Native American ExperienceExamines the indigenous peoples of North America with particular emphasis on the area now called the United States. GE: HUM, E
ES 2200 3 credits Introduction to Ethnic StudiesExamines the concepts, issues, and experience of People of Color in the U.S. with an emphasis on historical and contemporary interaction of race, gender, and class within and external to communities of color. GE: E
ES 2730 3 credits Ethnic Art in the United States(Cross offered under Art 2730) Course explores influences of a variety of cultures on art of present-day America. The focus in on art of Africa, Mexico and Native America and on contemporary artists whose work grows out of those and other traditions. GE: FA, E
ES 2830 3 credits Ethnicity, Race, and Crime(Cross offered under Criminal Justice 2830) This course will study the correlation between ethnicity, race, crime, and criminality in the United States. It will explore the interrelationship among ethnicity, race, and the production of criminal law, and the sanctioning of criminal behavior. Also, it will examine social dynamic which underlie current concept, information, and misinformation regarding ethnicity, race, and crime in an increasingly diverse society. P: sophomore standing. GE: E
ES 2930 3 credits Minority Women Writers of the United States(Cross offered under English or Women's Studies 2930) Literature written by Native-American women, African-American women, Latina-American women, and Asian-American women. Includes investigation of historical and cultural backgrounds as well as literary traditions of minority women of the United States. Students will read authors such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cabeza de Vaca, Louise Erdich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others. P: ENGL 1230. GE: HUM, EG ES 3230 3 credits Human Relations(Cross offered under Sociology 3230) A sociological analysis of selected aspects of human relations that are assumed to be socially structured and primarily group relations. The central focus is on relations between groups of people who are in unequal positions in society, based on the central dimensions of class, race/ethnicity and sex/gender. P: SOC 1030. GE: SS, EGS
ES 3240 3 credits African-American History: 1619 to present(Cross offered under History 3240) The historical experience of African-Americans since 1619. P: HIST 1330 or HIST 1430 or consent of the instructor or department chair. GE: HP, E
ES 3340 3 credits Management, Gender, and Race(Cross offered under Business Administration 3340) This course reviews the changing nature of management and explains why gender and race/ethnicity have become important considerations in business. It examines the status of women and people of color in managerial or administrative positions and discusses socialization processes, stereotypes, equal employment opportunity laws, illegal harassment, and power in organizations. Networking, mentoring, work/life balance, and career planning are other topics that are addressed. P: BSAD 2330 or junior standing. GE: EGS
ES 3400 3 credits History of Chicano Peoples in the U.S.An examination of the history of the indigenous peoples in the Americas who experience the Spanish conquest and colonization, and their subsequent inclusion in the United States as a result of U.S. expansion, war, economic imperialism, and migration within the Americas. GE: HP, E
ES 3410 3 credits Chicano Literature(Cross offered under English 3410) An examination of representative texts from various Chicana/Chicano writers, covering a range of genres and generations. There will be an emphasis on the relationship between literary production and historical context, in particular, the involvement of the writers in the social and political conflicts affecting the Chicano community. P: ENGL 1230. GE: HUM, E ES 3630 3 credits Ethnic and Gender Equity in Education(Cross offered under Teaching 3630) To increase appreciation, understanding, and awareness of ethnic and gender equity in the educational process and in society. The student will view equity issues through research, historical, philosophical, sociological, and psychological perspective, and the implications that each arena has on the lives of us all. G: EGS
ES 3720 3 credits Ethnic Rights and Politics(Cross offered under Political Science 3730) Changing patterns of ethnic, gender, and race relations; legislative and judicial developments affecting civil rights; political movements; political, social, and economic discrimination; judicial system and legal protection for civil rights. P: POSC 1230 or permission of instructor. GE: SS, E
ES 3730 3 credits Black Literature in America(Cross offered under English 3730) A survey of African-American literature beginning in the antebellum period and continuing to the present, including oral forms (folk tales and spirituals), novels, poetry, drama, autobiography, and other selected nonfiction. P: ENGL 1230. GE: HUM, E ES 3740 3 credits Asian-American Literature(Cross offered under English 3740) Introduces students to works of Asian-American literature, by looking at different works of fiction, autobiography, poetry, and drama. We will look at U.S. writers whose works are influenced by different literary and oral traditions including (but not limited to) Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hmong, Vietnamese, and Indian. P: ENGL 1230. GE: HUM, E
ES 3750 3 credits American Literature of Ethnicity and Immigration(Cross offered under English 3750) This course will examine various meanings some American writers have given to the terms "race" and "ethnicity", and the different ways they have portrayed the experience of immigration and assimilation. P: ENGL 1230. GE: HUM, E
ES 3830 3 credits Black Women and Feminism in the U.S.(Cross offered under Women's Studies 3830) An interdisciplinary examination of the historical and contemporary relationship between black women in the U.S. and the feminist movement. Authors discussed will include Frances Harper, Ida Wells-Barnett, Bell Hook, and Audre Lorde. GE: EGS |