Lower-Division

CRES 10 Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: An Introduction

Examines the concept of race, followed by an investigation of colorblindness, multiculturalism, and post-racialism. Race and ethnicity are examined as historically formulated in relationship to the concepts of gender, sexuality, class, nationalism, indigeneity, citizenship, immigration, and inequality.

Credits

5

Instructor

Nick Mitchell

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing requirement.

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall, Summer

CRES 15 Resource Centers Service Learning Course

This service learning course offers students of all majors the opportunity to intern at UCSC Resource Centers. Students organize educational community-oriented programs and projects to address retention and equity issues in higher education. Through this course, students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, project planning, and writing skills by combining theoretical concepts and experiential learning experience. Students explore texts that highlight resiliency of minoritized communities through the study of trans, queer, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Black, American Indian, Chicanx/Latinx, undocumented, and feminist political thought.

Credits

5

Instructor

Staff

General Education Code

PR-S

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 45 Pilipinx Historical Dialogue

Examines the history, politics, and cultural expressions of the Pilipinx community, in the Philippines and the diaspora, with an emphasis on Pilipinx and Pilipinx-American activism.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Spring

CRES 60E Blackness and Indigeneity in Europe

What are the contours of Black Europe? This course emphasizes a range of disciplinary approaches to the concepts of blackness and indigeneity, introducing and questioning Black Europe as a field, a culture, and a set of ideologies.

Credits

5

Instructor

Samantha The Staff

General Education Code

ER

CRES 68 Approaches to Black Studies

Provides a diasporic approach to the field of Black Studies in the modern era, with a focus on histories of dispossession and resistance.

Credits

5

Instructor

Xavier Livermon

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall

CRES 70S Introduction to the Sikhs

Introduces the Sikh community, including its origins, history, belief system and contemporary challenges. Other topics include Sikh music, art, literature, and aspects of Sikh society. Specific attention is paid to the Sikh diaspora community in the United States, and in California in particular, including comparative perspectives with respect to other minority communities.

Credits

2

Instructor

Talib Jabbar

Quarter offered

Winter

CRES 70U (Un)docu Studies

Legal papers, as a violent affirmation of settler sovereignty, do not capture the complexities of who we are, much less all our relations--to each other, to place, to life worlds. In this class, by exploring those complexities, we strive to create a communal space where we courageously articulate self, community, and relationality in ways that state documents must disavow.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Winter

CRES 94 Group Tutorial

A lower-division group tutorial, led by a faculty member, that focuses on various problems within critical race and ethnic studies. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and undergraduate student participants. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 94F Group Tutorial

A program of independent study arranged between a group of students and a faculty instructor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 99 Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

Cross-listed courses that are managed by another department are listed at the bottom.

Cross-listed Courses

ANTH 110G Westside Stories: Race, Place and the California Imaginary

From South Central to La Misión, this course explores the role of race and culture in creating the California Dream. Draws on films, music, and activism as lenses into the complex flows of power that shape our communities.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 110G

General Education Code

IM

ANTH 110Q Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture

From Janet Mock to Young M.A., queerness has become hypervisible in Black popular culture--but at what cost? Using music, television, and social media as central texts, students investigate the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race in public life.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 110Q, FMST 110Q

Instructor

Savannah Shange-Binion

General Education Code

IM

ANTH 130F Blackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas

What connects Black communities in the Caribbean, the U.S., Latin America, and Canada, and what sets them apart? Examines theories of diaspora, gender and sexuality, slavery, colorism, music, U.S. hegemonies, social movements, and comparative racialization and global anti-blackness (Formerly African Diasporas in the Americas.)

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 130

Instructor

Savannah Shange-Binion

General Education Code

CC

ANTH 140 The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections

Explores medical and environmental anthropologies, including how bodies-human and other-are implicated in processes often figured as environmental. Explores how the body and the environment combine and interact to form nexus of political, cultural, and material forces.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 140

Instructor

The Staff

General Education Code

PE-E

ANTH 196G Queer Worlds: Sexuality, Intimacy and Power in Contemporary Ethnography

How do we read, write, and recognize the queer body? How is it marked in politics, in intimate spaces, and in the ethnographic text? Drawing on ethnic studies and black queer studies, this seminar engages contemporary anthropological approaches to sexuality.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190G

Instructor

Savannah Shange-Binion

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; and ANTH 1, ANTH 2, and ANTH 3. Enrollment is restricted to senior anthropology majors.

Quarter offered

Spring

FMST 119 Indigenous Feminisms

Explores issues central to Indigenous women's life experiences and Native feminist thought. Students consider the concerns and methodologies of Native feminisms—theories and actions that highlight how settler colonialism is a fundamentally gendered process. Engages in foundational discussions of Native feminisms, settler colonial theory, and feminist methodologies. Course content focuses on communities in settler states currently known as the U.S. and Canada. Covers topics such as reproductive justice, gendered violence, cultural reclamation, and rematriation.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 119

Instructor

Katie Keliiaa

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall

FMST 13 California Indian History

California encompasses the nation's largest Native population and the state's policies create a complex political and legal structure. This course provides a history of early California in the 18th and 19th centuries and a review of the urban Indian experience in the 20th century. The first part sets the historical foundation and traces early California Indian history. The second part shifts to 20th-century urban Indian issues and the contemporary moment for California Indian peoples. Covers topics such as Indian labor exploitation, genocide, termination, relocation, and federal recognition.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 13

Instructor

Caitlin Keliiaa

General Education Code

ER

FMST 136 Organizing for Water Justice in California

Investigates, imagines, and practices movement toward water justice in California using feminist, Indigenous, and critical race theory. The course includes collaborative projects with environmental justice organizers in the Central Valley, and offers new ways of thinking about water inequity and access through racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and critical theories of place.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 136, ENVS 136

Instructor

Vivian Underhill

General Education Code

PR-E

Quarter offered

Summer

FMST 194K Black Diaspora

Seminar focuses on the historical and subjective processes that produce the concept of an African or Black Diaspora. In narrative, film, and cultural studies, themes of slavery, exile, home, identity, alienation, colonialism, politics, and reinvention are explored.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190K

Instructor

Gina Dent

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194L Comparative Settler Colonial Studies

Discusses the characteristics of settler colonialism and the politics of comparison in the study of global settler colonialism. Looks at settler colonial state practice across multiple different sites, including Santa Cruz, as students craft their own research projects. (Formerly offered as Decoloniality, Feminism, and Science Studies.)

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190L

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194M Empire and Sexuality

Explores the production of sexualities, sexual identification, and gender differentiation within multiple contexts of colonialism, decolonization, and emerging neo-colonial global formations.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190M

Instructor

Anjali Arondekar

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194O The Politics of Gender and Human Rights

Examines human rights projects and discourses with a focus on the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and rights in the international sphere. Reading important human rights documents and theoretical writings, and addressing particular case studies, emphasizes the tensions between the ideals of the universal and the particular inherent in human rights law, activism, and humanitarianism.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190O

Instructor

Neda Atanasoski

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194Q Queer Diasporas

Queer diaspora emerged from Third World/queer-of-color critique of queer theory and provides a framework for analyzing racializations, genders, and sexualities in colonial, developmental, and modernizing contexts. Readings from anthropology, history, literature, and feminist and cultural studies.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190Q

Instructor

Marcia Ochoa

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194U Touring War and Empire

Senior seminar focusing on tourism, colonialism, and militarism. Considers case studies on tourism in colonial contexts and sites of U.S. empire across multiple geographies as students craft their projects, participate in writing workshops, and present research.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190U

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194V Marxism and Feminism

Explores critically the intersections and crisis points between feminism and Marxism as bodies of thought, theoretical formations, and forms of historical inquiry.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190V

Instructor

Nick Mitchell

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 208 African(a) Genders and Sexualities

Examines a number of classic and new critical texts in the field of African(a) Feminism and Sexuality. Focuses on how African(a) scholars have had to theorize genders and sexualities through an intersectional lens that takes into account questions of decoloniality and freedom. How might we rethink issues of oppression and domination in relationship to race, nation, sex, gender, and sexuality in the global Black world using the tools provided by Africa(a) scholars?

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 208

Instructor

Xavier Livermon

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 218 Militarism and Tourism

Positioning tourism and militarism as central sites of inquiry for feminist and ethnic studies, course draws from literature on colonialism and empire to illuminate how tourism functions and how tourists move, in sites of past and present warfare.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 218

Instructor

Jennifer Lynn Kelly

FMST 243 Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Knowledge

Course takes as its central topic the institutional politics of feminist and critical race knowledges in the post-1960s United States university. Considers these fields' complex and contradictory relation to disciplinarity, the university's primary or default mode of arranging and legitimizing knowledge formations.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 243

Instructor

Nicholas Mitchell

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HISC 117 Making the Refugee Century: Non-Citizens and Modernity

Examines the material, discursive, and racialized conditions that have produced refugees in the last century. Also examines the social claims made by refugees, institutional responses to them, and political alternatives to state belonging

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 117

Instructor

Trung Nguyen

General Education Code

CC

HISC 140A Africa: How to Make a Continent

Introduces the histories of exploration, museum collection, and photography that shape historical and contemporary ideas about race, culture, and place in Africa.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 140A

Instructor

The Staff

General Education Code

CC

PSYC 148 Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Racism

Introduction to and analysis of the social psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, and racism in the United States. Examines how individuals both perpetuate and experience these phenomena, through the lens of race as a system of privilege and disadvantage.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 148

Instructor

Courtney Bonam

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100.