ES 1030 3 credits Race, Gender, and Class Examines 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 1240 3 credits Music Making in Ethnic Communities of the United States (Cross offered MUS 1240) Music as it is created, performed, and experienced within diverse communities of the U.S. From Czech American Polka Music in Wisconsin to West Indian Steel Bands in Brooklyn, New York, the musical elements will be studied as they are. Intersections between music, community, and identity, personal and group, provide further focus for this course. GE: FA, E ES 2130 3 credits The Native American Experience Examines 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 Studies Examines 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 Art History IV: 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 2750 3 credits Native American Art (Cross offered under ART 2750) Art of various culture groups of native Americans, ranging from the Inuit of the far north to tribes and nations of the southwest. Ancient and traditional art forms will be studied as well as history of art in times of culture contact and conflict, continuing through work created by comtemporary tribal artists informed by those traditions. Offered Various Semesters. GE: FA, E ES 2830 3 credits Ethnicity, Race, and Crime (Cross offered under CJ 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 dynamics which underlie current concepts, 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 ENGL 2930 and WS 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, EGS ES 2940 3 credits Political Economy of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (Cross offered under ECON 2940) This course uses economics principles to analyze salient issues involving people of color, women, and ethnic minorities. The focus is interdisciplinary, drawing from the fields of business and political science, among others. Analysis will occur within the contextual framework provided by guest presenters having expertise in areas of race and ethnic studies and of women's studies. Pertinent principles and concepts will be used to analyze the causes and effects of the changing composition of U.S. families, to examine the nature and extent of discrimination within the U.S. economy, and to understand why issues involving race, ethnicity, and gender are of concern to all. F S GE: SS, EGS ES 3230 3 credits Human Relations (Cross offered under SOC 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 HIST 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 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 ENGL 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 TCHG and WS 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. GE: EGS ES 3720 3 credits Ethnic Rights and Politics (Cross offered under POSC 3730) Changing patterns of ethnic, gender, and race relations; legislative and judicial developments affecting civil rights; political movements; political, social, and economic discrim-ination; 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 ENGL 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 ENGL 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 ENGL 3750) An examination of literature from a variety of U.S. "racial" and "ethnic" groups, including African-, Italian-, Mexican-, Jewish-, Asian-, and Native-American. Emphasis will be placed on the meanings of "race" and "ethnicity," the effects of immigration, and the impact of gender in this literature. P: ENGL 1130 and 1230. F GE: HUM, E ES 3830 3 credits Black Women and Feminism in the U.S. (Cross offered under WS 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 Hooks, and Audre Lorde. GE: EGS