CSRE-MIN - Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (Minor)
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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 minor.
Program Learning Outcomes:
The Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity expects that undergraduate minors concluding their course of study will be able to:
Mobilize comparative frameworks for analyzing how race and ethnicity develop historically, cross-culturally, and transnationally
Understand, interpret, and utilize trans- and interdisciplinary theories and methods in the study of race and ethnicity
Critically engage with primary and secondary sources and use both types of evidence in research and argumentation
Effectively communicate data, research, and arguments to diverse audiences
Apply a core inventory of theories, methods, and concepts to local and global contexts
Minimum Units in the Program
Minimum University Units
Students must enroll in CSRE 100 or one of the comparative core courses (CSRE 101A, 101B, or 101C) before they can declare the minor in CSRE.
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CSRE minors 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) toward their elective coursework in the CSRE minor. However, the number of elective units taken in other programs must not exceed the number of elective units taken in CSRE.
No more than 5 units of petitioned courses may be applied to electives in the CSRE minor. 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 and Comparative Core. Additional units toward the minor require a passing grade of D- or above.