Fields of Study

Students may select from Ethnic Studies and other departmental courses below in fulfillment of their field of study requirement. No more than 10 credits of 200-level courses can be applied toward completion of the field requirement. 

For information on course availability and schedules, check the timetable.

INDIGENEITY, POLICING, ABOLITION

In this field, students engage critical frameworks that are foundational for a recognition of Indigeneity grounded in land-based conceptions of nation/tribe, sovereignty, and resurgence; analyze the policing and surveillance of BIPOC people; and interrogate abolitionist spaces and practices.

  • ANTH 462: Critical Issues in Indigenous Northwest Studies
  • C/AM 369 Settler Cities (also in 2 & 3 – also offered as UEPP 369)
  • C/AM 375 Indigenous Place Making: Decolonizing Space and Place (also in 3)
  • ETHN 202: Introduction to Indigenous Studies
  • ETHN 204: Intro to African American Studies
  • ETHN 315: Contemporary Indigenous Issues
  • ETHN 318: Contemporary Arab American Issues
  • ETHN 319: Indigenous Feminisms
  • ETHN  321 Policing, Incarceration, Abolition
  • FAIR 213D: Slave Narratives
  • FAIR 216B: Testimonies of the New South
  • FAIR 310W: American Indian Celebrations
  • FAIR 311B: US Legal Systems (Under Advisement)
  • FAIR 314E: Indigenous Pedagogy
  • FAIR 319B: Critical Race Theory and the Law
  • FAIR 336B: Topics in Social Issues (under advisement)
  • FAIR 368: Decolonization across the medicine line (also in 2 & 3 - also offered as C/AM)
  • FAIR 399B:  Advanced topics in Native American Studies
  • FAIR 471: Capitalism and schooling: Neoliberal educational and abolitionist alternatives
  • HIST 262 African American History to 1865
  • HIST 263 African American History Since 1865
  • HIST 392 Tribal Sovereignty and Washington History
  • HUMA 325 Surveillance, Voyeurism and the Culture of Suspicion
  • PLSC 346 Politics of Inequality (also in 3)
  • SOC 322 Enslaving Others: Past and Present
  • SOC 366 Colonialism, Slavery and Links to Contemporary Racism
  • SOC 456 Seminar in Policing
  • SOC 469 Advanced Topics in Race and Ethnicity (also in 2 and 3- under advisement)
  • WGSS 320 Topics in WGSS (also in 2 and 3- under advisement)

 

DIASPORA, BORDERS, RESISTANCE

In this field, students analyze the creation and enforcement of borders; evaluate the political, economic, and social forces triggering migration and displacement, as well as the impact of migration across sending and receiving communities; and examine resistance within diasporic and transborder communities.

  • A/HI 368 Pacific Arts and Visual Culture
  • A/HI 383 Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora
  • A/HI 416 Topics in Global Borders and Contested Terrains
  • A/HI 450 Decolonizing Visual Culture. (* but also in 3)
  • ANTH 476 Borderlands
  • C/AM 368 Decolonization Across the Medicine Line (also offered as FAIR 368)(also in 1 and 3)
  • C/AM 443-UEPP 443 Social Justice and the City
  • SEC 411 Education and Social Justice (Also offered as EDUC 411)
  • SEC 412 Seminar in Educational Equity (also offered as AMST 412)
  • SEC 414 Topics in Social Justice education (also offered as FAIR 414)
  • ELED 412 Seminar on Racial Justice Praxis (* but also in 3)
  • ENV 444 Geography, Colonialism, and the Pacific Northwest (also as C/AM)
  • ETHN 205: Intro to Asian American Studies
  • ETHN 252: Intro to Arab-American Studies
  • ETHN 314: Latinx Migrants in the U.S.
  • ETHN 315: Contemporary Indigenous Issues
  • ETHN 318: Contemporary Arab American Issues
  • ETHN 397D: Policing, Incarceration, Abolition
  • ETHN 413/EDUC413: Bridging Barriers with Migrant Youth (4 credits)
  • FAIR 336B: Borders & Boundaries (5 credits) (Under Advisement) - (permanent number)
  • FAIR 412E: Adv. Topics in Law  (poverty & immigration) (5 credits)
  • HIST 326 Immigration and Ethnicity in the Americas
  • HIST 353 Latinas/os in the US West
  • HIST 362 The Civil Rights-Black Power Era in U.S. History
  • HIST 468 Borderlands and Frontiers of North America
  • PLSC 322 Latino Politics
  • PLSC 323 Black Politics in the U.S.
  • PLSC 398: Immigration Politics (4 credits)
  • PLSC 449 Politics and Social Change (*but also in 2)
  • SOC 271 Immigration
  • SOC 341 Sociology of Social Movements
  • SOC 469 Advanced Topics in Race and Ethnicity (also in 1 and 3- under advisement)
  • SOC 374 Sociology of Environmental Inequality and Justice
  • WGSS 310 Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity
  • WGSS 314 Gender Across Borders
  • WGSS 320 Topics in WGSS (also in 1 and 3- under advisement)

 

MINORITIZATION, COLONIZATION, LIBERATION

In this field, students interrogate the process of minoritization in the U.S. associated with BIPOC people; reckon with the ongoing processes of settler-colonialism; and envisage responses to institutionalized colonial and imperial oppressions that pursue liberation.

  • A/HI 245 African American Art
  • A/HI 310 Indigenous Arts of the Pacific Northwest
  • A/HI 450 Decolonizing Visual Culture
  • ANTH 361 American Indian Perspective
  • C/AM 369 Settler Cities
  • C/AM 375 Indigenous Place Making: Decolonizing Space and Place
  • C/AM 442 Geography colonialism and the PNW
  • DIAD 205, Disability, Diversity, and the Mass Media
  • ELED 412 Seminar on Racial Justice Praxis (* but also in 3)
  • ENG 234 African American Lit
  • ENG 235 Native and Indigenous Lit. Of North America
  • ENG 236 Asian American Literatures
  • ENG 239 Latina/o Literatures
  • ENG 331 Studies in Gender Theory (also offered as WGSS 331 - under advisement)
  • ETHN 202: Intro to Indigenous Studies
  • ETHN 203: Intro to Latinx Studies
  • ETHN 204: Intro to African American Studies
  • ETHN 205: Intro to Asian American Studies
  • ETHN 252: Intro to Arab American Studies
  • ETHN 310: Contemporary Asian American Issues
  • ETHN 315: Contemporary American Indian Topics 
  • ETHN 316: Contemporary African American Issues
  • ETHN 318: Contemporary Arab American Issues
  • FAIR 261E: Race in/To the Movies I -  Race relations on Film 1900-1950
  • FAIR 336B: Topics in Social Issues (under advisement)
  • FAIR390A: Race in/To the Movies II -  Race relations on Film 1950-1980
  • FAIR 411: Decolonial Feminist Praxis Research and Writing workshop
  • FAIR 414: Race, Class in Public Education (Also taught as EDUC 414)
  • FAIR 471: Capitalism & Schooling
  • HIST 262 African American History to 1865
  • HIST 263 African American History Since 1865
  • HIST 268 Introduction to Asian-American History
  • HIST 275 The Indian in American History
  • HIST 358 Women of Color in the US (also offered as WGSS 358)
  • JOUR 375: Diversity, Mass Media and Social Change
  • PLSC 345 Women and Politics
  • PLSC 346 Politics of Inequality
  • PLSC 422 Race and Political Identification’
  • PSY 346: Stereotyping, Prejudice, & Discrimination
  • UEPP 463 Native American Planning and Natural Resources Policy
  • WGSS 365 Feminist Pop Culture