LiberatED: The Ohio State University

SUMMARY

The Ohio State University offers Ethnic Studies courses through the College of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Ethnic Studies. Many introduction courses offered fulfill one of the university’s General Education Foundation category requirements.

COURSES

Comparative Studies 2321: Introduction to Asian American Studies

The course Comparative Studies 2321: Introduction to Asian American Studies includes topics such as Blackness, colonialism, tenets of queer theory, and whiteness.

The course description states that it “provides an introduction to Asian American Studies by examining some of the main themes, historical events, and critical frameworks that the field has focused on and developed since it emerged in the late 1960s” and “focuses significant attention on how Asian Americans have been racialized in the United States and through U.S. imperialism abroad; how ‘ethnicity’ has come to imply ‘national origin’ within the field in order to mark the diversity of Asian Americans; and how gender (along with sexuality and class) has been integral to constituting Asian American racial and ethnic differences.”

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Ethnic Studies 3572: Central American Migrants in the United States

The course Ethnic Studies 3572: Central American Migrants in the United States includes topics such as intersectionality and tenets of queer theory.

The course description states that the class “surveys the history and culture of Central Americans in the United States” using “an interdisciplinary approach that spans the humanities and social sciences, students will analyze the history of mass exodus and migration from Central America, settlement and formation of diaspora communities in major urban metropolises, and community work and organizing of Central Americans in key cities throughout the United States.”