Executive Summary
The University of Colorado Boulder offers a graduate certificate in Critical Ethnic Studies, which provides “specialized training in Africana studies, Chicanx/Latinx studies, decolonial feminist studies, critical ethnic studies, race and sexuality studies, and transnational/hemispheric ethnic studies.”
Students are required to take “ETHN 6000 – Foundations in Critical Ethnic Studies.”
Courses
ETHN 6000 – Foundations in Critical Ethnic Studies
The course “examines theories of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, colonialism and globalization, especially from the perspectives of communities most impacted by these categories and processes.”
ETHN 3314: Violence Against Women and Girls
The course ETHN 3314: Violence Against Women and Girls includes topics such as abolition, activism, privilege, power, and tenets of queer theory. Course texts include bell hooks.
The course description states that it will “guide students through critically considering the context of, responses to, and resistance from violence against women and girls as a cultural and individual phenomenon” and that in the class “racism, sexism, heteronormativity, transphobia, classism, nativism, privilege, as well as other forms and consequences of oppression are understood as real and will be discussed as such throughout the course.”
Electives
Participants in the certificate program are required to choose three graduate-level electives such as:
- ETHN 5001 – Screening Race, Class & Gender in the U.S. and the Global Borderland
- ETHN 5632 – Frantz Fanon Seminar
- ETHN 6301 – Decolonial/ Postcolonial Theory
- ETHN 6501 – Critical Race Theory: Soc Scnc Explrtn/ Intrvntn into Crit Race St