• ETHNC 5663: Criminal Justice & Law

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course provides an in-depth look at various manifestations of social inequality and their impact on crime, criminal justice, and the law. Intersectional effects of race, class, and gender inequality on crime, its control, and its adjudication is the focus of the course, however, there will be some opportunity for examination of other individual and structural factors. Critical theoretical perspectives that promote social justice as a societal goal, is the primary analytical focus.
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• ETHNC 5665: Gender on the Hill

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  The purpose of this course is to introduce undergraduate students to the process of Community Lobbying through the field of Gender Studies. During the Legislative session the course meets at the State Capitol and works with elected officials on bills.
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• ETHNC 5720: Race Ethnicity Latin Am

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course will focus on the historical constructions of race and ethnicity in Latin America and its consequences for understanding contemporary politics and society. We will follow the historical evolution of these ideas and concepts as social constructs, tracing their origins and variations in Mexico, Brazil, the Andes, and the Caribbean, to name a few. We will also examine the social and political forces (domestic and international) that shaped evolving conceptions of ethnicity and race'and ultimately nationality'in the Americas. We will conclude with the modern period, considering how this region of the world once deemed exceptional for its celebration of race mixture and colorblindness transitioned to one that promotes affirmative action policies and contends with growing ethnoracial mobilization in variety of social and political domains.
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• ETHNC 5725: Queer of Color Critique

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Queer of color critique and cultural work is a rich, important, and often overlooked site of knowledge production that has heavily influenced popular culture, activist movements, and theoretical frameworks.Drawing from lived and embodied experience, the work of many queer and trans BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) scholars, activists, and artists not only critique and expand upon the fields of queer studies and ethnic studies, but also create an entirely new field from which we can gain the theoretical and material tools for ensuring a future in which all peoples survive, thrive, and flourish. Together, we will analyze theoretical readings, alongside music, poetry, cinema, art, and performance, to think critically about the kind of radical future these works make possible.
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• ETHNC 5730: Chic/x and Lat/x Fems

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course explores the theoretical contributions of contemporary Chicana, Chicanx, Latina, and Latinx scholars and applying these theories to works within anthropology, sociology, history, and cultural studies. We will study the writings of Chela Sandoval, Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Emma Perez, Gloria Anzaldua, and other leading Chicana/x and Latina/x theorists to better understand feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. Some of the topics/concepts we will cover include colonization, diasporic subjectivities, (de)colonization methodologies, consciousness, and borderlands.
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• ETHNC 5760: Queering Ethnic Studies

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course rethinks the field of ethnic studies by centering the work of queer of color theorists. These theorists challenge 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. They also theorize race and ethnicity as gendered and sexualized formations. Queer of color theory illuminates how gender and sexual difference has historically marked racial and ethnic minorities as unworthy of U.S. citizenship. Moreover, it unsettles the categories of race and ethnicity by exposing their adherence to a set of norms (gender, sexual, class, aesthetic, bodily, political). Those who do not adhere to these norms are often multiply marginalized. Rather than focus solely on multiply marginalized people (queer and trans people of color), however, queer of color theorists deconstruct the norms of racial and ethnic identity to expose the complicity of minority communities with state-based and capitalist modes of exclusion. Therefore, we will interrogate categories such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation as intersecting sites of power and categories of normativity. We will do so through an examination of critical essays from the emerging fields of black queer studies and queer of color critique. Also, we will analyze literary and visual representations of LGBTQ communities of color.
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• ETHNC 5800: Justice & Inequality

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Analyzes the structures and dynamics of social inequality in the United States.
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• ETHNC 5810: Independent Study

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Special study arranged with faculty member.
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• ETHNC 5840: Studies Af Amer Lit

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Prerequisite: ENGL 2600.
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• ETHNC 5900: Methodology

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course provides an overview of the conceptual frameworks and corresponding research methods that are used to study race and ethnicity across the areas constituting Ethnic Studies. Multiple disciplinary (e.g., Political Science, Historical, Literacy Studies) and methodological (quantitative and qualitative) orientations are explored.
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