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Ethnic Studies
UC Santa Cruz is strongly committed to the educational value
of multicultural perspectives, as demonstrated by the diversity of
our faculty; the breadth of our curriculum and library holdings; the
extent of the involvement of our students in field study, community
work, and study abroad; and the community-centered work of many thousands
of our alumni globally. The campus integrates multicultural perspectives
into the curriculum as a whole, rather than establishing them as the
responsibility of a separate department or departments. Students interested
in comparative ethnic studies or in the study of Chicano/Latino, African
American, Asian American, Jewish American, or Native American experience
in particular have, therefore, a wide range of curricular options.
More than 45 faculty from 18 departments have ethnic experience
within the United States among their teaching and research specialties.
These faculty offer at least 80 courses each year that focus on
race and ethnicity as concepts and that deal comparatively or specifically
with Native American, Jewish American, Asian American, African American,
or Chicano/Latino experience. Many other courses in this catalog
deal with these issues in more general contexts. In addition, many
UCSC faculty are concerned with the histories, cultures, and societies
of the other countries of the world, which are places and cultures
of origin for the diverse ethnic communities of California and the
United States.
Students with a special interest in ethnic studies should consult
offerings in American studies, anthropology, community studies,
East Asian studies, education, film and digital media, global economics,
history, history of art and visual culture, history of consciousness,
language studies, Latin American and Latino studies, literature,
music, politics, psychology, sociology, theater arts, and women's
studies. A list of U.S.-centered ethnic studies courses offered
each quarter is published in the Schedule of Classes. A list
of faculty for whom these studies are a professional specialty is
published on the UCSC catalog web site: reg.ucsc.edu/catalog.
Students can pursue their interests in ethnic studies
in a number of curricular and extracurricular ways:
- by taking one or more ethnic studies courses to meet the campus's
general education requirements, in addition to the one selected
to meet the campus's U.S. Ethnic Minorities/Non-Western Society
(E code) course requirement for all students;
- by taking several ethnic studies courses as part of any one
of several majors. For example, a student majoring in sociology
can take such courses as Ethnic and Status Groups, Twenty-first
Century African American Social Structure, and Social History
of Asian Americans. A student majoring in literature can pursue
courses in African American, Asian American, Jewish American, or
Chicano/Latino literature as well as courses in Latin American,
African, Chinese, or Japanese literature;
- by choosing a major that offers a formal or informal concentration
in ethnic studies. Women's studies offers two formal concentrations:
race, class, and ethnicity (within the U.S.); and nations and cultures
(outside the U.S. or comparative with the U.S.). Community studies
and Latin American and Latino studies enable students to undertake
extended periods of fieldwork in U.S. ethnic communities or in Latin
American communities as an integral part of their academic study;
- by taking such courses independently (in consultation with an
academic adviser), as part of developing a systematic cluster
of elective courses. In rare cases, this option may lead to the
construction of an individual major (see the Individual
Major section for more information);
- by regularly attending the array of talks, exhibitions, and
performances focused on ethnic experiences and perspectives and
by taking advantage of opportunities to participate in cultural,
journalistic, and community activities with this focus.
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