SUMMARY

The University of Utah offers an Ethnic Studies major and minor through the School of Cultural & Social Transformation. Students are required to complete one course from each category and eighteen elective courses focused on a specific content area.

COURSES

ETHNC 2510 – Diversity Scholars: Land and Labor

This course “delves into the history of U.S. land management and labor practices which have produced a deeply unequal social and economic system” and explores “systems such as chattel slavery, native dispossession, colonization, industrialization, and migrant labor, students will explore the ways in which power over land and labor is deeply tied to race, gender, and class.”

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ETHN 2550: The African American Experience

The course ETHN 2550: The African American Experience includes topics such as white privilege and whiteness. Course texts include Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.

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ETHN 2590: Pacific Islander American Experience

The course ETHN 2590: Pacific Islander American Experience includes topics such as colonization and decolonization.

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ETHNC 4020 – Black Feminist Thought

This course aims to “examine key issues and debates in contemporary Black feminist thought in and outside the U.S. Students will critically engage with the contributions of feminists of African descent/heritage to gender and women’s studies, Africana/Black studies, philosophy, sociology, geographies, and other fields” and explores the “historical and everyday obstacles Black womxn face because of the intersections of their embodiment and identities; how they (re)defined themselves and their communities; and identify ways in which they continue to (re)shape knowledge(s) and social justice movements to (re)claim space and time.”

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ETHNC 5760 – Queering Ethnic Studies

This course “rethinks the field of ethnic studies by centering the work of queer of color theorists” and challenging “queer theory’s focus on gender and sexuality as singular and discrete axes of oppression by demonstrating how gender-and-hetero normativity intersect with racial and class oppression.”

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