• ETHNC 3365: Ethnic Minorities

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course explores how ethnic minority populations navigate a range of political, economic, and legal circumstances in the United States. The class lectures and readings consider the diverse and sometimes overlapping experiences of different ethnic/racial groups and address subjects such as: Immigration, Language, Science, Education, Media, and Social Justice. Applying a sociological lens, we will pay attention to the historical and contemporary ways that ideas about ethnicity are instituted, circulated, and made meaningful in society. We will also examine the intersections of class, gender, and sexuality in the lives of ethnic minority populations and discuss how people work to eradicate inequalities within and between ethnic minority subgroups in America.
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• ETHNC 3420: American Racism

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  An in-depth look at the concept of racism that attempts to define, describe, and identify examples woven into the fabric of American society. A look at past, present, and future indicators to examine the evolution of racism and its characteristics, as well as its manifestation over time.
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• ETHNC 3500: Social Justice Facil

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course prepares students to become gender justice practitioners by learning to facilitate social justice dialogues. It teaches students how to operationalize critical theories by understanding current social, political, economic, and historical contexts to design and facilitate conversations that allow others to explore their narratives and develop connections with people from diverse opinions, values, and life experiences. The skills students will develop are inclusive leadership, conflict resolution technics, allyship, equity strategies, logic model design, and small group communication. The course also has a CEL designation because the dialogues will occur with community partners.
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• ETHNC 3520: Asian Am Contemp Issues

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Survey of emerging social and political issues concerning Asian Pacific Americans in the post-1965 era. Discussion topics include the meaning of being Asian Pacific American and its intersection with ethnic culture, class, gender, school, work, law, media, and politics in the contemporary setting.
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• ETHNC 3590: PI Health Dynamics

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Addresses historical and contemporary Pacific Islander health issues, including health disparities, health equity, socio-behavioral factors, and epidemiological approaches to "health" as viewed through indigenous and western worldviews.
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• ETHNC 3630: Reproductive Justice

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Reproductive justice is the human right to have children, the right NOT to have children, and the right to parent children in safe and sustainable communities. In this class, we will discuss contraception and abortion in great detail, but our focus goes beyond a limited pro-choice vs. pro-life framework. We will discuss the reproductive health and access of people across genders, sexualities, social class, and race/ethnicity and immigration status. We discuss past and ongoing reproductive oppression of communities of color, but we will also talk about the ways in which society can support pregnant people and parents.
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• ETHNC 3640: Race, Gndr & Incarcerat

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course examines the ways social positionalities/identities such as gender, sexuality, race, class, and immigration status impact people's and communities' experiences with the carceral state. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we explore the expansion of the carceral state while centering the experiences of marginalized communities within that expansion with particular attention to communities of color, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, youth, the unhoused, and undocumented community members.
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• ETHNC 3651: Histories of Pacific

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This class provides an introduction to histories of the Pacific Islands, also known as Oceania. This class analyzes the histories of both Indigenous and Western framings of the Pacific, including the origins of the divisions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. It analyzes imperialisms and colonialisms in the Pacific and Indigenous resistance and movements to achieve decolonization.
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• ETHNC 3670: History of Hawai'i

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This class explores the history of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the arrival of European explorers and American missionaries, the Kingdom's overthrow in 1893, annexation by the United States in 1898, and statehood in 1959. The class considers how Native Hawaiians resisted the loss of their nation and continue to organize for cultural revitalization and decolonization. We also consider histories of immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Portugal, and Puerto Rico, among others, who came to work on sugar plantations in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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• ETHNC 3671: Gender in the Pacific

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This class examines the significance of gender and sexuality in the Pacific Islands and its diaspora. It explores how instilling Western norms of gender and sexuality has been key to various forms of colonialism, imperialism, and militarism across Oceania. It also investigates how revitalizing Indigenous Pacific Islander epistemologies about gender and sexuality have also been central to decolonizing movements in the Pacific. The class provides students with tools to critically analyze and go beyond the popular idea of the Pacific as a feminized tropical paradise, and consider the importance of gender and sexuality to Indigenous knowledges and political movements. Readings and topics are drawn from interdisciplinary sources, including History, Literature, Pacific Island Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Indigenous Studies.
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