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Program
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- Minor
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- Catalog 2026-27
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- degree-program
- Description
- , this course offers theoretical and practical tools for understanding difference, transforming conflict and advancing social change. We will learn how racial, ethnic and other social differences are created through culture, power, language and representation. As we learn to recognize our differences we will also learn, practice and take away a toolkit of transformational skills and frameworks for healing and communicating effectively across those differences, including la cultura cura (culture heals), cultural competence, non-violent communication, emotional literacy, mindfulness and storytelling. Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive CRPE-240LF Intermediate Topics: 'Latinas in Film' Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This course will examine Latinas as both subjects and creators of visual narratives and cultural representations. Students will view a range of films about and by Latinas in historical and cross-cultural perspective. Each film will be paired with selected readings and examined in class discussions from aesthetic, cultural, racial, gendered, historical and political dimensions. Latinas will be treated as a gender-inclusive category with trans representation present in the course films and readings selection. Central to the discussions will be the ways in which the Latina body, marked by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality, is used to produce meaning about Latinidad in the United States, as well as how those conceptions have shifted over time. Ultimately, students will apply a basic conceptual toolkit in cinematic, narrative structure and cultural criticism to examine films about and by Latinas as their final class project. Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive CRPE-240RE Intermediate Topics: 'Representing Race' Fall. Credits: 4 This class takes a look at the components of racial representation in audio-visual media: How can ideas and theories be conveyed or communicated through a visual mode? What ethical concerns emerge when representing others in different media? Drawing from written texts, documentaries, graphic novels, and artwork, we will explore the myriad ways media creatives construct racial representations, and question the perceived boundary between research and art. Starting with early anthropological film, this class will move through both conventional and nontraditional material that is used to tell stories, make political statements, and represent people's lived experiences. Crosslisted as: ANTHR-216RC Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive CRPE-244 The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This class aims to raise student awareness of and exposure to different cultural backgrounds and contributions of Black feminist thought, womanism, and afro feminism across the Caribbean and the Americas. We will take a historical journey exploring the roles of cisgender Black women and gender-non-confirmative Black people in the formations of Black feminist thought, highlighting their contributions and struggles in dismantling the Western matrix of domination, but also in the radical building of new societies. Students will learn about the groundbreaking theories and methodologies that helped pave the way for contemporary feminist organizations and social movements. Crosslisted as: GNDST-206BF Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive CRPE-254 Nueva York Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This course will explore the history of Latina/o/x populations in New York City. Students will learn about histories of migration and settlement, urban inequality, community building, and urban transformation with particular focus on the Puerto Rican population in New York City. The course will examine the many ways Latinas/os/x have transformed New York City and built vibrant communities. Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive CRPE-256 Trap Doors and Glittering Closets: Queer/Trans* of Color Politics of Recognition, Legibility, Visibility and Aesthetics Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 In 2014, Time magazine declared the "Transgender Tipping Point" as a popular moment of transgender people's arrival into the mainstream. Using a queer and trans* of color critique, this course will unpack the political discourses and seeming binaries surrounding visibility/invisibility, recognition/misrecognition, legibility/illegibility, belonging/unbelonging and aesthetics/utility. How might we grapple with the contradictions of the trapdoors, pitfalls, dark corners and glittering closets that structure and normalize violence for some while safeguarding violence for others? This course will center the 2017 anthology Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility . Crosslisted as: GNDST-204CP Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Writing-Intensive Prereq: One course in Critical Race Political Economy, Gender Studies, or Critical Social Thought. CRPE-257 Transforming Justice and Practicing Truth to Power: Critical Methodologies and Methods in Community Participatory Action Research and Accountability Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This course will offer an overview of select methodologies and methods from Community-based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR), Participatory Action Research (PAR), collaborative ethnography and other social justice research interventions such as radical oral history, grassroots research collectives, experimental digital archives, research and data justice networks and organizations. We will center on questions of "accountability"; that is, to whom, for whom, and to what end do processes of accountability serve those already in power? Moreover, we will investigate the chasms between academia and activism in order to explore the possibility of unlikely collaborative research alliances. Crosslisted as: GNDST-204TJ Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning Prereq: 4 credits in Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race Political Economy. CRPE-261 Race, Racism, and Power Fall. Credits: 4 This course analyzes the concepts of race and racism from an interdisciplinary perspective, with focus on Latinas/os/x in the United States. It explores the sociocultural, political, economic, and historical forces that interact with each other in the production of racial categories. We will focus on structural, systemic, and institutional racism and processes of racialization. The course examines racial inequality from a historical perspective and investigates how racial categories evolve and form across contexts. The analysis that develops will ultimately allow us to think rigorously about social inequality, transformation, and liberation. Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives CRPE-295 Independent Study Fall and Spring. Credits: 1 - 4 Restrictions: Contact instructor for independent study declaration form and signatures. Instructor permission required. CRPE-308 Luminous Darkness: African American Social Thought After DuBois Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 Examines the life, work, and legacies of WEB DuBois. Drawing on domestic and diasporic fictional and nonfictional meditations on Black life and progress in and beyond the 'DuBoisian century,' the course considers the changing meanings of and movements for global racial justice for people of African descent. The course also confronts the globalization of the color line in the post-Civil Rights/Black Power era. Due to increasing precarity for the masses, emphasis is given to more recent ideas like afro-pessimism, racial capitalism, and afro-futurism, as contemporary responses to DuBois's 1903 question, 'How does it feel to be a problem?' Readings by Jemisin, Gyasi, Robinson, Fields, Butler, Davis, Ransby, Hartman, Wilderson, Fanon, YamahttaTaylor, among others form the core of the course. Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Prereq: 8 credits in Africana Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race Political Economy. CRPE-323 Latina Feminism(s) Fall. Credits: 4 In this seminar, we will explore the relationship between Latina feminist theory and knowledge production. We will examine topics related to positionality, inequality, the body, reproductive justice, representation, and community. Our approach in this class will employ an intersectional approach to feminist theory that understands the interconnectedness between multiple forms of oppression, including race, class, sexuality, and ability. Our goal is to develop a robust understanding of how Latina feminist methodologies and epistemologies can be tools for social change. Crosslisted as: GNDST-333FM Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Restrictions: Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors Prereq: 8 credits in Latina/o Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race Political Economy. CRPE-332 Black Feminist Anthropology Spring. Credits: 4 This course explores Black feminist anthropology as both a scholarly tradition and a political practice. We examine how Black feminist thinkers have challenged dominant anthropological methods and theories, centering care, embodiment, power, and lived experience. Students will engage works that push the boundaries of knowledge production while exploring the possibilities of an anthropology rooted in liberation and accountability. Crosslisted as: ANTHR-316BF Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Writing-Intensive, Speaking-Intensive Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors Prereq: 4 credits in Critical Race Political Economy. CRPE-336 Black Musical Creativity and the Politics of Pleasure Spring. Credits: 4 What does it mean to take pleasure seriously as a site of Black creative power? This course centers music and sound as key domains through which Black communities craft aesthetic worlds, sustain intimacy, and experiment with freedom. Engaging Black feminist thought, diaspora studies, and contemporary music scholarship, we explore how sonic practices-from improvisation and sampling to harmony, distortion, and groove-generate forms of relationality that exceed domination. We consider pleasure not as an escape, but as a world-making practice. This class invites students to think about music as both aesthetic practice and social theory. Crosslisted as: MUSIC-321BM Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors Prereq: 8 credits in the social sciences and/or humanities. CRPE-339 Abolitionist Dreams and Everyday Resistance: Freedom Memoirs, Struggles, and Decolonizing Justice Fall. Credits: 4 This seminar will offer close theoretical readings of a variety of anti-colonial, abolitionist, anti-imperialist, insurgent and feminist-of-color memoir, autobiographical and social justice texts. We will read works from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Assata Shakur, Patrisse Cullors, Grace Lee Boggs, Audre Lorde, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinna, Leila Khaled, Fannie Lou Hamer, Sarah Ahmed, Lee Maracle, Kai Cheng Thom, Angela Davis, Sojourner Truth, adrienne maree brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mary Brave Bird, Jamaica Kincaid, Gabby Rivera and Haunani-Kay Trask. We will center the interlinking and capacious concepts of liberation, revolution, freedom, justice and decolonization. Crosslisted as: GNDST-333AD Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Writing-Intensive Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors Prereq: One course in Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race Political Economy at the 200 level or above. CRPE-340 Advanced Topics CRPE-340GH Advanced Topics: 'Girlhood Studies in Critical Race and Political Economy' Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This course explores some of the central themes in girlhood studies through critical race and political economy lenses. We will dig into questions such as: What does it mean to be socially considered a girl? Who defines girlhood? How is girlhood defined, shaped, and experienced in different societies, cultures, and periods? How do historical hierarchies of race, class, gender, and sexuality affect the girlhood experience? As we enter the heart of this interdisciplinary academic field that seeks to understand the complexities of existing as a girl, we will revisit the origins and evolution of the field as a distinctive area of study. Crosslisted as: GNDST-333GH Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors CRPE-362 Facilitating for Racial Change Fall. Credits: 4 What factors hinder meaningful dialogues on race within the U.S. context? What facilitation skills promote interracial communication and collaboration across axes of difference? How might these co-created dialogic spaces help promote social transformation and change? This course is designed to prepare students to facilitate dialogues on race and other social-justice related topics by bridging sociological theory on race and racial identity development with engaged praxis using Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) pedagogical techniques. Crosslisted as: SOCI-362 Applies to requirement(s): Meets No Distrib. Rqmt; Multicultural Perspectives Instructor permission required. Prereqs: CRPE-231 , SOCI-216 , or CUSP-215RR, and additional 8 credits in Critical Race Politial Economy or Sociology. Notes: The application can be found here: https://forms.gle/2GQXLiC3oadn3KrKA CRPE-363 A Social Movements' History of the States from Grassroots Organizing to Social Movements Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This course will be an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary exploration of grassroots organizing, community experiences, and social movements from 1700 to the present day by highlighting how community organizing has been affected by socio-structural problems and, in the words of Patricia Hill Collins, "the matrix of oppression"; but also by critically analyzing the historical contributions of grassroots organizations to dismantling all systems of domination. We will track how various organizations and social movements have understood, challenged, contested, and transformed power hierarchies. Simultaneously we will enter the history of community organizing in the United States of America and interrogate how multidimensional processes of racialization, gender classification, class, and sexual division inform experiences within and around these social movements. Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors CRPE-366 Disposable People: A History of Deportation Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This course explores comparative racial and ethnic politics in the U.S. during the 20th century. We will analyze the creation and maintenance of structural inequalities through laws and policies targeted at persons of color in the areas of healthcare, transportation, immigration, labor, racial segregation, and education. Through readings, lectures and films, we will discuss critical histories of community struggle against social inequality, registering the central impact that race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship have had on efforts toward social justice. Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors CRPE-367 Slavery, Prison, and Captivity: Narratives of Life In and Out of Bondage Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This course will be a multidisciplinary exploration of narratives produced by enslaved people, captivity experiences, and histories of imprisonment from the 17th to the present day by highlighting how these narratives were connected to artistic and socio-political movements of their times. The class will critically analyze the historical contributions of the narratives of enslaved people that shape ideas of justice, emancipation, and new societies. We will chronologically track how several narratives of enslaved and captive people described, challenged, contested, and attempted to dismantle hegemonic power structures. Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors CRPE-371 Free Them All: Abolition Feminism and Anticarceral Action Research Spring. Credits: 4 This course will center the activism, theories and praxis of abolition feminism. We will collectively study how interpersonal violence (gender, racial, sexual, ableist) is intertwined with state violence (from domestic policing to militarism abroad). Through investigating the legal history of the criminalization of survivors alongside mainstream antiviolence research and statistics, we will challenge the use of criminological binaries such as victim/perpetrator and violent/nonviolent. Partnering with coalitions like Survived and Punished National, this course is structured by a series of anti-carceral action research projects such as contributing to active survivor defense campaigns. Crosslisted as: GNDST-333CF Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning, Writing-Intensive Prereq: Two courses in Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race Political Economy at the 200 level or above. CRPE-372 Transforming Harm and Mutual Aid: A Transformative Justice Lab Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 The overall goal of this course is to make explicit connections between mutual aid and transformative justice, and the intertwined place-based and community histories in which these interventions continue to be made. Students will leave with a grounded understanding of the connections, tensions and differences between transformative justice and restorative justice and criminal justice. Alongside Dean Spade's Mutual Aid Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) , students will be introduced to the radical history of mutual aid -- learning the difference between "charity" and "solidarity" -- and how mutual aid might interrupt systemic to interpersonal harm. Crosslisted as: GNDST-333TH Applies to requirement(s): Humanities Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning Prereq: A 200-level course in Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race Political Economy. CRPE-373 Abolition and Radical Textiles Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 How do the topics of abolition and textiles come together? Marginalized communities have historically used folkloric, textile arts and material culture to amplify abolitionist causes. From secret quilt codes of the Underground Railroad to an abolitionist community sustained by a silk mill in Florence, Massachusetts how might thinking with textiles intervene on patriarchal systems rooted in rigidity, isolation and punishment? From the social devaluation of domesticized and feminized labor of weaving, quilting, sewing to banners, students will theorize and experiment with textiles, leaving with a grounded understanding of how textiles/fibers can and have played an essential role in the history of abolition. Crosslisted as: ARTST-380TX , GNDST-333TX Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive, Community-Based Learning Prereq: 8 credits in Critical Race Political Economy, Gender Studies, and/or Art Studio. Notes: This course has a $75 materials fee. CRPE-374 Latinx Immigration Spring. Credits: 4 The course provides an historical and topical overview of Latina/o migration to the United States. We will examine the economic, political, and social antecedents to Latin American migration, and the historical impact of the migration process in the U.S. Considering migration from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, we will discuss the social construction of race, the gendered nature of migration, migrant labor struggles, Latin American-U.S. Latino relations, immigration policy, and border life and enforcement. Notions of citizenship, race, class, gender, and sexuality will be central to our understanding of the complexity at work in the migration process. Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors Notes: Community-based learning is optional in this class. CRPE-392 Senior Seminar Fall. Credits: 4 This course brings seniors together to develop and carry out a capstone project related to their specific interests while exploring the relationships among theory, activism, research and practice in gender studies and/or critical social thought. Projects can take different forms. Seniors with diverse interests, perspectives, and expertise will have the opportunity to reflect on the significance of their education in relation to their current and past work, their capstone or senior projects, their academic studies as a whole or their engagements outside of academia. Course readings and discussion will be shaped by students in collaboration with the instructor. Crosslisted as: GNDST-392 Applies to requirement(s): Humanities Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive Restrictions: This course is limited to seniors.; This course is limited to CRPE and Gender Studies majors only. CRPE-395 Independent Study Fall and Spring. Credits: 1 - 8 Restrictions: Contact instructor for independent study declaration form and signatures. Instructor permission required. Courses Meeting Requirements for CRPE's Major Pathways, Minors, and Categories CRPE Major Pathway/Minor Course List Code Title Credits Anthropology ANTHR-216BE Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Black Ethnographers' 4 ANTHR-216RC Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Representing Race' 4 ANTHR-316BF Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Black Feminist Anthropology' 4 ANTHR-342 Science as Culture 4 ANTHR-352 Digital Cultures 4 Art History ARTH-301DG Topics in Art History: 'Indigenous Futures' 4 Art Studio ARTST-380AE Advanced Topics in Art Studio: 'Race, Gender and Sexual Aesthetics in the Global Era' 4 ARTST-380TX Advanced Topics in Art Studio: 'Abolition and Radical Textiles' 4 Biological Sciences BIOL-354 Race and Biology 4 College(Interdeptmnt) Courses COLL-224 Being Human in STEM 4
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Requirements to complete
Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.
Critical Race & Political Econ
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English
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Film Media Theater
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Gender Studies
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People, Power, Place
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Critical Race & Political Econ
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Geography
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Gender Studies
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History
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Politics
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Anthropology
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Critical Race & Political Econ
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Dance
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