University of California San Diego (CorruptED)
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University of California San Diego ethnic studies courses feature content such as critical race theory, decolonization, tenets of queer theory, whiteness, and “Zionist colonialism.” Course texts include Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, bell hooks, Robin DiAngelo, and Angela Davis.
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ETHN 100A: Theoretical Approaches
The course ETHN 100A: Theoretical Approaches includes topics such as decolonization, patriarchy, power, racial capitalism, tenets of queer theory, and whiteness.
The course description states that it “investigates the relationship between racial knowledge and power, paying special attention to disciplinary constructions of the “’racial subject.'”
ETHN 101: Ethnic Images in Film: Race, Gender, Sexuality
The course ETHN 101: Ethnic Images in Film: Race, Gender, Sexuality includes topics such as tenets of queer theory and whiteness. Course texts include authors such as bell hooks.
The course description states that it will “examine the ways that race, gender, sexuality are represented by mainstream and independent filmmakers in North America” and will “engage films within the structures of white supremacist capitalism and examine the ways they challenge and/or reinforce and construct gendered, ethnic, racial, sexual and national meaning.”
ETHN 103: Environmental Racism
The course ETHN 103: Environmental Racism includes topics such as environmental racism, environmental privilege, and racial capitalism.
The course description states that it “examines the concept of environmental racism, the empirical evidence of its widespread existence, and the efforts to combat it.”
ETHN 108: Race, Culture and Social Change
The course ETHN 108: Race, Culture and Social Change includes topics such as “Zionist colonialism” and “Orientalism.” Course texts include Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.
The course description states that it will focus on “examining 20th century social movements on a global scale” and students “will be learning about different frameworks that are relevant for understanding conditions of social movements for change and we will be looking at culture broadly defined.”
ETHN 113: Decolonizing Education
The course ETHN 113: Decolonizing Education includes topics such as critical race theory, decolonization, and Postcolonial Theory. Course texts include Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and bell hooks.
The course description states that “will discuss the complex relationship between education and the possibilities for social change in the context of decolonization” and “will address compare education outcomes occurring both in the Global North and South, and how the education system can become instrumental to either decolonization or the status quo.”
ETHN 113A: Decolonizing Geology
The course ETHN 113A: Decolonizing Geology includes the topics activism, colonialism, decolonization, resistance, and tenets of queer theory.
The course description states that students will “deconstruct the historical relationship between colonialism and the Earth Sciences, discuss how this relationship has developed over time and explore practical methods for how the connections between the Earth Sciences (and, by extension, other fields of western science) and colonialism might be unwound.”
ETHN 117: Organic Social Movements
The course ETHN 117: Organic Social Movements includes topics such as racism and tenets of queer theory. Course materials and texts include Robin DiAngelo and Judith Butler.
The course description states that it “examines a number of social movements throughout U.S. history to understand how individuals and groups of people have risen to action for different purposes – civil and human rights, Black liberation, representation, self-affirmation, indigenous rights, and women’s rights.”
ETHN 142: Race, Medicine, and Global Inequality
The course ETHN 142: Race, Medicine, and Global Inequality includes topics such as colonialism, fatphobia, racism, and whiteness. Course texts and videos include Frantz Fanon and Robin DiAngelo.
The course description states that it “presents the opportunity to understand the intersections between race, medicine, and global inequality.”
ETHN 155: U.S. Militarism
The course ETHN 155: U.S. Militarism includes topics such as settler colonialism, decolonization, and “school-to-prison pipeline.”
The course description states that it will consider “rationales for and responses to American military expansion as well as its social, environmental and cultural consequences” and ” takes a theoretically integrated approach by linking U.S. militarism with capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy.”
Ethnic Studies 1: Introduction to Ethnic Studies: Land and Labor
The course Ethnic Studies 1: Introduction to Ethnic Studies: Land and Labor includes topics such as colonialism and tenets of queer theory. Course texts include readings from Angela Davis.
The course description states that it will examine “key historical events and debates in the field that center around land and labor, including disputes about territory and natural resources, slavery and other forms of unfree labor, labor migration and recruitment, and U.S. and transnational borders.”
ETHN 2: Circulations of Difference
The course ETHN 2: Circulations of Difference includes topics such as settler colonialism and tenets of queer theory. Course texts include Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Angela Davis.
The course description states that the class is for “students interested in challenging commonly held understandings of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation” and it “will examine how racial formation in the U.S. has been shaped by inter-regional and transnational migration and the circulation of commodities, knowledge, bodies, and media.”
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