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ETHSM-2000: Critical Ethnic Studies - Seminar

Course Description

Critical Ethnic Studies 2000-level seminars introduce students to the complexities and nuances of intersectionality, gender, disability, decolonial theory & philosophy, in imperialist and non-imperialist societies. 2000-level seminars may incorporate one or more of the following interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x, and Latino /a/x studies, border studies, cultural studies, critical disability studies, critical gender studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

Academic Level: Undergraduate

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites: Visit Workday to view this information.

Subjects

Sections

Spring 2026

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-1: Popular Cultures
  • Mon 9:00-11:30AM, Main Bldg - W1
ETHSM-2000-2: Anti Apartheid Movement of the 1980s
  • Mon 6:30-09:00PM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHSM-2000-3: From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop
  • Eva Silot Bravo
  • Eva Silot Bravo
  • Mon 9:00-11:30AM, Hooper GC - GC7
ETHSM-2000-4: The Grind
  • Trina Robinson
  • Trina Robinson
  • Wed 9:00-11:30AM, Hooper GC - GC7
ETHSM-2000-5: Fashion and Ethnicity
  • Erin Algeo
  • Erin Algeo
  • Wed 9:00-11:30AM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHSM-2000-7: Tryin to Get Free: Foudations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Tue 3:30-06:00PM, Main Bldg - W5
ETHSM-2000-8: Queer and Trans Futures
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Thu 9:00-11:30AM, Main Bldg - E5
ETHSM-2000-9: Indigenous Arctic Artists & Writers
  • Fri 3:30-06:00PM, Main Bldg - W1

Fall 2025

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-1: Layered in Absurdity: Analyzing Afro-Surrealism in Creative Writing
  • Lyn Patterson
  • Lyn Patterson
  • Mon 12:15-02:45PM, Double Ground - N203
ETHSM-2000-2: Decolonizing Knowledge: Indigenous and Other Knowledge Traditions
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Thu 12:15-02:45PM, Main Bldg - E4
ETHSM-2000-3: Dynamics of Geopolitics in the Middle East
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Thu 9:00-11:30AM, Double Ground - N203
ETHSM-2000-4: Asian Pacific Arts and Cultures
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Thu 6:30-09:00PM, Main Bldg - W5
ETHSM-2000-5: Tryin' to get Free: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Erin Algeo
  • Erin Algeo
  • Wed 9:00-11:30AM, Main Bldg - E4
ETHSM-2000-6: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Mon 9:00-11:30AM, Main Bldg - W5
ETHSM-2000-7: Non-Conforming: Disability and the Arts
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Mon 12:15-02:45PM, Main Bldg - E2
ETHSM-2000-8: The Grind
  • Trina Robinson
  • Trina Robinson
  • Mon 9:00-11:30AM, Main Bldg - E4
ETHSM-2000-9: The Vinyl Experience
  • Mon 12:15-02:45PM, Main Bldg - E4

Summer 2025

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-1: Latin American Cinema
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Mon/Wed/Fri 10:00AM-12:30PM

Spring 2025

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-1: From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop
  • Mon 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - 103
ETHSM-2000-2: A History of U.S. People of Color
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHSM-2000-3: Popular Cultures
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 103
ETHSM-2000-4: The Grind
  • Trina Robinson
  • Trina Robinson
  • Tue 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC1
ETHSM-2000-5: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Double Ground - N203
ETHSM-2000-6: Fashion & Ethnicity
  • Erin Algeo
  • Erin Algeo
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - W5
ETHSM-2000-7: Collective Practices and Resitance
  • Valencia James
  • Valencia James
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E5
ETHSM-2000-9: Tryin to get free: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Hooper GC - GC5

Fall 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-2: Race & Performance
  • Valencia James
  • Valencia James
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - W2
ETHSM-2000-3: Indigeneities
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 103
ETHSM-2000-5: Non-Conforming: Disability and the Arts
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHSM-2000-6: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Gail Williams
  • Gail Williams
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC5
ETHSM-2000-7: The Vinyl Experience
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - W2
ETHSM-2000-8: Collective Practices + Resistance
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P3
ETHSM-2000-9: Deconstructing Prison
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, 80 Carolina - P1
ETHSM-2000-10: Dynamics of Geopolitics in the Middle East
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 103
ETHSM-2000-11: Asian Pacific Arts and Cultures
  • Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC7

Spring 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-1: From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop
  • Mon 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - E4 (inactive)
ETHSM-2000-2: A History of U.S. People of Color
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC7
ETHSM-2000-3: Popular Cultures
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Hubbell - 151
ETHSM-2000-4: The Grind
  • Tue 7:15-10:15PM, 80 Carolina - P1
ETHSM-2000-5: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E1 (inactive)
ETHSM-2000-6: Fashion & Ethnicity
  • Erin Algeo
  • Erin Algeo
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - 141 (inactive)
ETHSM-2000-7: Collective Practices and Resistance
  • shah hussein
  • shah hussein
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC7

Fall 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-1: Asian Pacific American Arts and Cultures
  • Tue 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC7
ETHSM-2000-2: Black Women Writers
  • Mandisa Wood
  • Mandisa Wood
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC1
ETHSM-2000-3: Indigeneities
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 103
ETHSM-2000-4: History of North Indian Music and Culture
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC2
ETHSM-2000-5: Non-Conforming: Disability and the Arts
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHSM-2000-6: Spirituality As Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC5
ETHSM-2000-7: The Vinyl Experience
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHSM-2000-9: Deconstructing Prison
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, 80 Carolina - P1

Summer 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-2: Black Poetry- Resistance through the Word
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Mon/Tue/Wed 9:30AM-12:50PM, 80 Carolina - P1

Spring 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-2: From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop
  • Mon 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - E4
ETHSM-2000-3: A History of US People of Color
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 B
ETHSM-2000-4: Fashion and Ethnicity
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC2
ETHSM-2000-7: The Grind
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, 80 Carolina - P2
ETHSM-2000-8: Collective Practices and Resistance
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHSM-2000-9: Latine/x Graphic Narratives
  • Breena Nunez
  • Breena Nunez
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 A
ETHSM-2000-10: Non Conforming: Disability and the Arts
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - W2
ETHSM-2000-11: Social Dreaming and the Dream
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Hubbell - 161 A

Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-2000-1: From Be-Bop to Hip Hop
  • Mon 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - W2
ETHSM-2000-3: Fashion and Ethnicity
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 102 A
ETHSM-2000-6: The Grind
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N3
ETHSM-2000-7: Collective Practices and Resistance
  • Leah King
  • Leah King
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N17
ETHSM-2000-9: The Future's in Color: Sci Fi
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC1

Summer 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-2000-1: History of North Indian Music and Culture
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Thu 4:00-06:00PM

Spring 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-2000-3: 'Tryin' to Get Free': Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Wed 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-2
DIVSM-2000-4: Black Experimental Narrative
  • Leila Weefur
  • Leila Weefur
  • Wed 8:00-09:25AM, Online - HS-5
DIVSM-2000-5: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Wed 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-4
DIVSM-2000-6: Imagining the Middle East: Moving Pictures & Literature
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Wed 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-3
DIVSM-2000-7: Grasping at the Root: Advancing Creative Excellence
DIVSM-2000-9: From Be-Bop to Hip Hop
  • Wed 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-5
DIVSM-2000-10: A History of US People of Color
  • Wed 5:00-06:25PM, Online - HS-6
DIVSM-2000-11: Fashion & Ethnicity
  • Wed 5:00-06:25PM, Online - HS-7
DIVSM-2000-12: The Future's in Color: Sci Fi
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Wed 6:30-07:55PM, Online - HS-4
DIVSM-2000-13: The Vinyl Experience
  • Wed 6:30-07:55PM, Online - HS-5
DIVSM-2000-14: Gender, Class, & Production: A History of Lace
  • Erin Algeo
  • Erin Algeo
  • Wed 8:00-09:25AM, Online - HS-6
DIVSM-2000-15: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees
  • Tue 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-4

Fall 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-2000-1: Race and Representation in Popular Culture
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Online - HS-2
DIVSM-2000-2: ‘Tryin’ to get Free’: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Online - HS-1
DIVSM-2000-3: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Wed 8:00-11:00AM, Online - HS-1
DIVSM-2000-4: Grasping at the Root: Advancing Creative Excellence
  • Meeting Time TBD

Summer 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-2000-2: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (Online)
  • Mon/Wed 1:00-04:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E1