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CSRE-BA - Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (BA)

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Comparative Studies in Race and EthnicityUndergraduate MatriculatedBA - Bachelor of Arts

General

Program Policies

Learning Outcomes

Program Overview

The Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) explores how race and ethnicity shape global history, undergird our social systems, and touch every aspect of our lives. Our courses empower students with the tools to assess and build inclusivity, equity, diversity, accessibility, and justice. CCSRE programs—encompassing Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, and Native American Studies—take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how gender, sexuality, ability, capital, technology, education, politics, and the environment structure our bodies, experiences, and communities. Students have the option to focus on particular racial and ethnic groups and on issues that move across peoples and places. 

The interdisciplinary nature of the academic programs empowers students to enroll in a wide variety of courses. CCSRE listings can be found in Anthropology, Art and Art History, Education, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theater and Performance Studies, and more. Majors and minors in CCSRE engage with various perspectives and methodologies and grapple with pivotal themes including decolonization, indigeneity, intersectionality, movement-building, resistance, solidarity, and wellness. By analyzing interlocking structures of identity and difference, CCSRE students interrogate the role of power, reimagine the world, and reclaim the future.

Visit the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity website for more information about the program and how to declare the major.

Minimum Units in the Program

60

Minimum University Units

180
Completion requirement

All CSRE majors must take the CCSRE core curriculum, including Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE 100), two comparative core courses (CSRE 101A, 101B, and 101C), and a capstone seminar taken in autumn quarter of the final year of study (CSRE 200X or 201X). Students must complete CSRE 100 or one of the 101 classes before declaring the major. Language courses do not count toward CSRE major and minor requirements.

Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • 1149592
  • 1263261
    OR     2182261
Complete at least 2 of the following Courses:
  • 2254481
  • 2254491
  • 2254501

Students majoring in CSRE must declare a subplan. (Subplans are not applicable to majors in Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Jewish Studies, and Native American Studies.)

CSRE majors choose between eight subplans to direct their studies and may propose an individualized subplan as appropriate. Subplans are noted on CSRE students' transcripts and diplomas; individually designed foci will appear as "Self-Designed."

Students must complete a minimum of 15 units of subplan-focused courses as part of the 60 units taken toward the major. All courses taken toward the subplan must be listed or cross-listed in the CCSRE family of programs; exceptions must be petitioned through the CCSRE Academic Programs team.

Methodology courses should be selected based on their potential to support the student's projected capstone project.

Methodology courses must be taken for 3-5 units and a letter grade.

Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
  • 2252971
  • 1096931
  • 2054781
  • 1101231
  • 2174091
  • 1128831
  • 2170121
  • 2243447
  • 1138511
  • 2108171
  • 2143841
  • 2011031
  • 2191801
  • 2202191
  • 2202211
  • 2242321
  • 2202531
  • 2265961
  • 2208941
  • 2256331
  • 2226691
  • 2171541
  • 2164881
  • 2243442
  • 2069081
  • 2069091
  • 2161241

CCSRE students must complete at least one Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) course or co-curricular experience that centers issues of race, ethnicity, and inequality. This requirement may be fulfilled by enrolling in a Cardinal Course, completing a CCSRE Undergraduate Fellowship, or participating in an Alternative Spring Break. The CEL requirement may be fulfilled by courses that also fulfill other CSRE degree requirements (e.g., a Methodology course may also count toward the CEL requirement).

Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
  • 2259861
  • 2253783
  • 2081414
  • 2185953
  • 2161242
  • 2250551
  • 2020453
  • 2269411
  • 2240501
  • 2208701
  • 2246511
  • 2178511
  • 2179991
  • 2153241

CSRE majors may count Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS), Asian American Studies (ASNAMST), Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies (CHILATST), Jewish Studies (JEWISHST), and/or Native American Studies (NATIVEAM) courses toward their elective coursework in the CSRE major. However, the number of elective units taken in other programs must not exceed the number of elective units taken in CSRE.

CSRE majors must complete the remaining units of their 60-unit minimum with elective coursework in the CCSRE family of programs.

No more than 15 units of petitioned courses may be applied to electives in the CSRE major. Students who wish to petition a course must fill out and submit a course petition form for the CCSRE Academic Programs team to review within one month of completing their annual degree audit meeting with the CCSRE Student Services Officer.

A minimum grade of C- is required for a student to count a class towards the Core Curriculum, including the Gateway, Comparative Core, Methodology, WIM, and Capstone requirements. Additional units toward the major require a passing grade of D- or above.

Completion requirement
Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
  • 1263261
  • 2182261

Note that the same five-unit course fulfills the WIM and Capstone requirements.

Completion requirement
Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
  • 1263261
  • 2182261

CCSRE students must plan to complete 200X or 201X in person on Stanford campus in autumn of their final year of study.

Completion requirement
Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • 2182261
  • 1263271
  • 1263281

Prospective Honors students must apply with a complete proposal approved by a CCSRE faculty advisor in the spring preceding their final year of study. Honors students must continuously enroll at Stanford in autumn, winter, and spring. Only 201X will be counted toward the major in CSRE. For more information about the Honors program and the application process, visit the Honors page on the CCSRE website.

Completion requirement
The subplan in Education and Inequality explores the history, policy, and practice in education to understand how educational opportunity and learning outcomes are shaped by race, ethnicity, and power. Students develop an understanding of the core issues facing educators and policymakers and prepare to contribute to social and political discourse about education and opportunity.
Completion requirement
The Environmental Justice subplan develops students’ understanding of the uneven and far-reaching impacts of environmental policy, climate change, grassroots environmental movements, and more. Students develop facility with various methodologies and leave prepared to work toward just environments for all.
Completion requirement
The subplan in Health and Wellness supports interdisciplinary exploration of health research, access, and policy. Students take qualitative and quantitative approaches to understanding how health and wellness are defined and impacted by processes of racialization.
Completion requirement
The Identity, Diversity, and Aesthetics subplan explores the intersections of culture, race, and social transformation. Through courses taught by Stanford faculty, lecturers, and distinguished Visiting Artists in the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA), students experiment with how the arts, activism, and academic research come together to enact aesthetic and societal change.
Completion requirement
The Politics, Policy, and Equity subplan focuses on how political institutions, public policy, nonprofits, and social movements shape and are shaped by race and ethnicity. This subplan gives students the tools and frameworks to examine the ramifications that politics and policy have on processes of racialization.
Completion requirement
Drawing from the contributions of women of color feminism and queer of color studies, this concentration challenges normative constructions of race and ethnicity by equipping students with analytical tools from feminist theory, queer theory, post-colonial theory, critical race theory, and other critical methods.
Completion requirement
The Race, Space, and Belonging subplan examines issues of immigrants, citizenship, empire, gentrification, segregation, urban and rural space, human rights, public welfare, social justice, and law. Students examine how race and ethnicity shape constructions of and access to space, nation, and public resources.

Completion requirement
Students in this subplan explore the relationship between technology, media, and racialization. Race and ethnicity are crucial for understanding the meaning, power, and evolution of technologies—from type, photography, film, and radio to social media, artificial intelligence, and algorithms. Students assess technological equity and reimagine how technology might be harnessed to actualize a more just and equitable world.
Completion requirement
A proposal for a self-designed subplan should include a description of the student’s focus, an articulation of why current subplans cannot accommodate it, a course plan, and a description of how each course meets the student’s educational objectives. Proposals for a self-designed subplan must be submitted with a student’s Major Declaration Proposal and will be reviewed by the CCSRE Academic Programs team.
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