Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Elective List

Elective Lists

The following course list are associated with the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) B.A. Refer to the CRES program statement in the general catalog for curricular requirements.

General Upper-Division Electives

CRES 118	Abolitionist Futures	5
CRES 121	The Struggle for K-12 Ethnic Studies	5
CRES 141	Learning with the Land	5
CRES 150	Race, Gender and Algorithms	5
CRES 151	Who Counts as Human? Race, Gender, and Science in Art	5
CRES 159	Latinxs and the History of U.S. Policing	5
CRES 161	The Racial and Gendered Economies of Housing	5
CRES 185	Race, Gender, and Science	5
CRES 188B	Topics in Black Studies	5
CRES 188S	Topics in Settler Colonial Critique	5
CRES 188T	Topics in Race, Science and Technology	5
CRES 188X	Topics in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies	5
ANTH 110I	Cultures of Sustainability and Social Justice	5
ANTH 110Q	Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture	5
ANTH 130O	Native Feminisms, Gender, and Settler Colonialism	5
ANTH 140	The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections	5
ANTH 158	Feminist Ethnographies	5
ANTH 187	Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts	5
ANTH 196J	Imagining America	5
ARTG 139	Queer and Trans Art and Games	5
ARTG 142	Black Aesthetics: Interventions in Digital Media	5
ARTG 143	Ecofutures	5
CMMU 137	Communities and Climate Change	5
CMMU 163	Health Care Inequalities	5
ECON 128	Poverty and Public Policy	5
EDUC 125	Multicultural Children's Literature for Elementary Classrooms	5
EDUC 128	Immigrants and Education	5
EDUC 135	Gender and Education	5
EDUC 140	Language, Diversity, and Learning	5
EDUC 141	Bilingualism and Schooling	5
EDUC 160	Issues in Educational Reform	5
EDUC 164	Urban Education	5
EDUC 173	Seminar in Critical Pedagogy	5
EDUC 174	Ethnographic Research in Schools and Communities	5
EDUC 177	Teaching Linguistically Diverse Students	5
EDUC 181	Race, Class, and Culture in Education	5
FILM 165B	Race on Screen	5
FILM 165D	Asian Americans and Media	5
FILM 165E	Chicana/o Cinema, Video	5
FMST 117	Post Zora Interventions: Art, Activism and Anthropology	5
FMST 124	Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas	5
FMST 125	Coded Bias: AI, Algorithms, and Social Justice	5
FMST 136	Organizing for Water Justice in California	5
FMST 145	Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S	5
HAVC 140A	America in Art	5
HAVC 140C	Race and American Visual Arts	5
HAVC 141F	The Camera and the Body	5
HAVC 190J	Visual Cultures of the Vietnam-American War	5
HIS 9	Introduction to Native American History	5
HIS 104C	Celluloid Natives: American Indian History on Film	5
HIS 104D	Museums and the Representation of Native American History, Memory, and Culture	5
HIS 106B	Asian and Asian American History, 1941-Present	5
HIS 109A	Race, Gender, and Power in the Antebellum South	5
HIS 110H	Greater Reconstruction: Race, Empire, and Citizenship in the Post-Civil War United States	5
HIS 120	W.E.B. Du Bois	5
HIS 122A	Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1900-1945	5
HIS 122B	Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1945 to the Present	5
HIS 123	Immigrants and Immigration in U.S. History	5
HIS 128	Chicana/Chicano History	5
HIS 151A	Medicine and the Body in the Colonial World	5
HISC 83	White Like Me: Whiteness and the Racial Imaginary	5
JRLC 135	Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research	5
JRLC 136	Methodologies of Critical Praxis	5
LALS 128	Latino Media in the U.S	5
LALS 131	Latino Literatures: Assimilation and Assimilability	5
LALS 143	Race and Ethnicity	5
LALS 144	Mexicana/Chicana Histories	5
LGST 111B	Civil Liberties	5
LING 135	Language and Racialization	5
LIT 121L	Green Ache: Ecopoetics, Race, and Material	5
LIT 121M	Blue and Brown: Race, Gender, and Blackness	5
LIT 121N	RAGE: Race and Performance	5
LIT 135A	Topics in African Literature	5
LIT 135F	Empire and After in the Anglophone Novel	5
LIT 135G	Postcolonial Writing	5
LIT 145A	Colonial American Literatures	5
LIT 148I	Toni Morrison's Americas	5
LIT 149E	Modern Fiction and Poetry	5
LIT 154C	Hip Hop Hi Art	5
LIT 160E	Race and Comics	5
LIT 160K	Race, Labor, and Migration	5
LIT 161A	African American Literature	5
LIT 161B	African American Women Writers	5
LIT 162A	Asian American Literature	5
LIT 163A	American Indian Literature	5
LIT 165B	Latino Fictions of the Americas	5
LIT 169A	White Flow(n): Race, Gender, and Material	5
LIT 179E	Writing for Transformation	5
LIT 189F	Literaturas Latinas en los Estados Unidos: en inglés, español y Spanglish	5
LIT 189V	Andean Indigenismo	5
MUSC 81M	Chicano/Latino Music in the United States	5
PSYC 148	Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Racism	5
PSYC 153	The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class	5
PSYC 159H	Community-Based Interventions	5
PSYC 159I	Psychology of Immigration	5
PSYC 159P	Race, Ethnicity, and Environmental Inequality	5
SOCY 120	Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Sexuality and Cultural Politics	5
SOCY 126	Sex and Sexuality as Social Practice and Representation	5
SOCY 127P	Sociology of Drugs, Botanicals and Pharmaceuticals	5
SOCY 128C	Social History of Democracy, Anarchism, and Indigenism	5
SOCY 128I	Race and Law	5
SOCY 139T	Community-Engaged Research Practicum	5
SOCY 148	Educational Inequality	5
SOCY 152	Body and Society	5
SOCY 156	U.S. Latinx Identities: Centers and Margins	5
SOCY 159	Pregnancy and Birth	5
SOCY 161	Postpartum	5
SOCY 170P	The Political Economy of Race	5
SOCY 173X	Water and Sanitation Justice	5
THEA 151A	Studies in Performance: African American Theater Arts Troupe	5
THEA 161B	Black Women and Diasporic Theatrical Expression	5

Transnational Electives

***CRES 190Z needs to be added to this list***

CRES 45	Pilipinx Historical Dialogue	5
CRES 60E	Blackness and Indigeneity in Europe	5
CRES 68	Approaches to Black Studies	5
CRES 70U	(Un)docu Studies	5
CRES 112	AsianAm Enviro Justice	5
CRES 113	Music and Performance	5
CRES 115	Frantz Fanon: Resistance, Revolution, and Decolonization	5
CRES 120	Third World Feminisms	5
CRES 123	Introduction to Native American & Indigenous Studies	5
CRES 127	Indigenous Environmentalisms From Oceania to Native California	5
CRES 129	Black Marxism	5
CRES 134	The Black "Middle East"	5
CRES 144	Introduction to Black Poetry	5
CRES 153	A Radical History of the Korean War	5
CRES 170	Intro to Arab American Communities	5
CRES 171	Arab Feminist Visions	5
CRES 172	Arab Uprising: Movements, Revolutions, and Praxis	5
CRES 173	Palestine: A History from Below	5
CRES 174	Palestine Through Ethnic Studies Lens	5
CRES 179A	Critical Filipinx Poetics: A Workshop for Reading and Writing Poetry	5
CRES 183	A Black Lyric	5
CRES 188A	Topics in Transnational Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies	5
CRES 188M	Topics in Critical Migration Studies	5
ANTH 110O	Postcolonial Britain and France	5
ANTH 129	Beyond Borders: Other Globalizations and Histories of Interconnection	5
ANTH 130A	Anthropology of Africa.	5
ANTH 130C	Politics and Culture in China	5
ANTH 130F	Blackness In Motion: Anthropology of the African Diasporas	5
ANTH 130L	Ethnographies of Latin America	5
ANTH 130T	Religion and Politics in the Muslim World	5
ANTH 159	Race and Anthropology	5
CMMU 145	Global Capitalism: a History of the Present	5
EDUC 162	Critical Youth Studies in Education	5
ENVS 130B	Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture	5
ENVS 178	Race and the Environment	5
FIL 82	Introduction to Filipino Language & Culture	5
FMST 112	Women and the Law	5
FMST 115	Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas	5
HAVC 124B	History of Photography in Southeast Asia	5
HAVC 140D	Chicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present	5
HAVC 170	Art of the Body in Oceania	5
HAVC 179	Topics in Oceanic Visual Culture	5
HIS 106A	Vietnam War Memories	5
HIS 121A	African American History to 1877	5
HIS 131	Women in Colonial Latin America	5
HIS 140D	Recent Chinese History	5
HIS 150E	History and Memory in the Okinawan Islands	5
HIS 154	Post-Colonial North Africa	5
HIS 156	Interrogating Politics in the Post-Colonial Middle East	5
HIS 158C	Slavery in the Atlantic World: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives	5
HIS 166	Northern Ireland: Communities in Conflict	5
HIS 170C	Mediterranean France: The History and Politics of Immigration	5
HIS 181B	Africa and Britain in an Imperial World	5
HIS 184B	Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present	5
HIS 190A	Slavery and Race in Latin America	5
HIS 194T	Worlds of Labor in Asia	5
HIS 194U	The Cold War and East Asia	5
HISC 117	Making the Refugee Century: Non-Citizens and Modernity	5
LALS 100	Concepts and Theories in Latin American and Latina/o Studies	5
LALS 150	Afro-Latinos/as: Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions	5
LALS 151	Race & Mobility	5
LALS 152	Consumer Cultures Between the Americas	5
LALS 170	Indigenous Struggles in the Americas	5
LALS 171	Brazil in Black and White	5
LALS 172	Visualizing Human Rights	5
LALS 175	Migration, Gender, and Health	5
LALS 178	Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization	5
LALS 180	Borders: Real and Imagined	5
LALS 194H	Central America and the United States	5
LIT 131C	Worldings	5
LIT 133G	The Nuclear Pacific	5
LIT 133H	Haunted by the Forgotten War: Literature and Film of the Korean War	5
LIT 135A	Topics in African Literature	5
LIT 138A	Culture and Nation	5
LIT 155E	Cinema and Social Change in Latin America	5
LIT 160H	Topics In Narratives of Resistance	5
LIT 160I	Race, Militarism, and Empire in Asia and the Pacific	5
LIT 160J	Exile, Diaspora, Migration	5
LIT 162B	Literature of the Asian Diaspora	5
LIT 164G	Literature and the Holocaust	5
LIT 165A	Chicanx/Mexican American Literature	5
LIT 165C	Mesoamerican Indigenous/Indigenista Literature	5
LIT 179E	Writing for Transformation	5
LIT 189P	Las mujeres en la literatura latinoamericana	5
LIT 189S	La cultura popular en la narrativa latinoamericana	5
LIT 190O	Studies in Slavery, Race, and Nation in the Americas	5
POLI 187	Decolonial Global Health: A View from the Middle East and Africa	5
SOCY 117E	Migrant Europe	5
SOCY 128	Law and Politics in Contemporary Japan and East Asian Societies	5
SOCY 128M	International Law and Global Justice	5
SOCY 143	Black Botanical Medicine in the Americas	5
THEA 100A	Asian Diasporic Performance in Live and Digital Space	5
THEA 167	Africanist Aesthetics: Live Dialogues in the Americas and Africa	5

Social Movement Electives

***CRES 190Z needs to be added to this list***

CRES 45	Pilipinx Historical Dialogue	5
CRES 68	Approaches to Black Studies	5
CRES 70B	Black Radical University?	5
CRES 70U	(Un)docu Studies	5
CRES 112	AsianAm Enviro Justice	5
CRES 113	Music and Performance	5
CRES 115	Frantz Fanon: Resistance, Revolution, and Decolonization	5
CRES 120	Third World Feminisms	5
CRES 122	Decolonial Intersectionality: Gender, Race, Indigeneity	5
CRES 123	Introduction to Native American & Indigenous Studies	5
CRES 124	Demilitarizing the University	5
CRES 127	Indigenous Environmentalisms From Oceania to Native California	5
CRES 131	Black Freedom Movements	5
CRES 132	Black Speculations	5
CRES 134	The Black "Middle East"	5
CRES 144	Introduction to Black Poetry	5
CRES 153	A Radical History of the Korean War	5
CRES 160	Latina/o/x Geographies	5
CRES 170	Intro to Arab American Communities	5
CRES 172	Arab Uprising: Movements, Revolutions, and Praxis	5
CRES 173	Palestine: A History from Below	5
CRES 174	Palestine Through Ethnic Studies Lens	5
CRES 179C	Artivist Creative Nonfiction Workshop	5
CRES 183	A Black Lyric	5
ANTH 110G	Westside Stories: Race, Place and the California Imaginary	5
ANTH 130F	Blackness In Motion: Anthropology of the African Diasporas	5
CMMU 134	No Place Like Home	5
CMMU 186	Food and Agriculture Social Movements	5
EDUC 162	Critical Youth Studies in Education	5
ENVS 130B	Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture	5
ENVS 178	Race and the Environment	5
FIL 82	Introduction to Filipino Language & Culture	5
FMST 20	Feminism and Social Justice	5
FMST 147	Gender, Race, Power, Knowledge	5
HAVC 140D	Chicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present	5
HAVC 141K	Activist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism
HIS 80X	History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement	5
HIS 121B	African American History, 1877 to the Present	5
HIS 154	Post-Colonial North Africa	5
HIS 156	Interrogating Politics in the Post-Colonial Middle East	5
HIS 184B	Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present	5
JRLC 111	Joy In Social Movements	5
LALS 170	Indigenous Struggles in the Americas	5
LALS 178	Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization	5
LIT 179E	Writing for Transformation	5
OAKS 133	Writing Resistance: Creative Writing Workshop	5
SOCY 172	Sociology of Social Movements	5