University of San Diego (CorruptED)

University of San Diego ethnic studies courses feature content such as colonialism, racial capitalism, tenets of queer theory, and whiteness.

COURSES

ETHN 100: Introduction to Ethnic Studies

The course ETHN 100: Introduction to Ethnic Studies includes topics such as racial capitalism and whiteness. Course texts include authors such as Angela Davis.

The course description states that students will be introduced to the “academic field of Ethnic Studies, raising questions about the ways that race and racism shape our experiences and world across a range of time and places: When and how did the concept of race arise? How does race connect with other forms of difference such as class, gender and sexuality? How do our personal experiences with racial identity and racism relate to the structure of our society? What does it mean to claim racial ‘colorblindness’? How have Ethnic Studies scholars explored areas such as immigration, popular culture, education, imperialism, war, and labor? How have concerns for social justice and equity shaped the field of Ethnic Studies?”

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ETHN 367: Race and Globalization

The course ETHN 367: Race and Globalization includes topics such as Black Radicalism, colonialism, racism, and tenets of queer theory.

The course description states that students “will explore popular, historical, and theoretical understandings of globalization to investigate its trajectory through ‘past’ periods of settler colonialism, transatlantic slavery, and U.S. imperialism.”

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ETHN 494: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Culture

The course ETHN 494: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Culture includes topics such as cultural appropriation and tenets of queer theory.

The course description states that it “engages the politics of Black popular culture through Hip-Hop” and “will focus on Hip-Hop not simply as a musical genre, but as a cultural and political movement.”

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