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ETHSM-3000: Critical Ethnic Studies Seminar

Course Description

Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level seminars deepen students’ knowledge of the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class from both domestic and global perspectives. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational and intersectional approaches for producing knowledge about resistance, power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from the interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x and Latino /a/x studies, Women’ studies, border studies, cultural 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-3000-1: Collective Practices and Resistance
  • Valencia James
  • Valencia James
  • Thu 12:15-02:45PM, Hooper GC - GC2
ETHSM-3000-2: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees.
  • Mon 12:15-02:45PM, Main Bldg - 103
ETHSM-3000-3: Caring Futures: Trans Power
  • Tue 3:30-06:00PM, Hooper GC - GC1
ETHSM-3000-4: A History of U.S. People of Color
  • Sara Moncada
  • Sara Moncada
  • Mon 12:15-02:45PM, Hooper GC - GC1

Spring 2025

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-2: The Black Panthers and Popular Culture
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC2
ETHSM-3000-3: Asian American History
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM, 80 Carolina - P4
ETHSM-3000-4: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 A
ETHSM-3000-5: Queer & Trans Futures
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - E4

Fall 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-1: Decolonizing Knowledge: Indigenous and Other Knowledge Traditions
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Sat 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 A
ETHSM-3000-2: Tryin' to get Free: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Erin Algeo
  • Erin Algeo
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, 80 Carolina - P3
ETHSM-3000-3: Globalization and Hip-Hop
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC5

Spring 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-1: ‘Tryin’ to get Free’: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Mandisa Wood
  • Mandisa Wood
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Hooper GC - GC3
ETHSM-3000-2: The Black Panthers and Popular Culture
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - E4 (inactive)
ETHSM-3000-3: Contemporary Asian American Issues
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC5
ETHSM-3000-4: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E2 (inactive)
ETHSM-3000-5: Queer & Trans Futures
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - E2 (inactive)

Fall 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-2: Decolonizing Knowledge: Indigenous and other Knowledge Traditions
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Mazyar Lotfalian
  • Sat 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E4
ETHSM-3000-4: Tryin' to get Free: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E2
ETHSM-3000-6: Globalization and Hip-Hop
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC2

Summer 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-2: Asian American Arts and Cultures
  • Mon/Wed 12:00-03:00PM

Spring 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-1: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E4
ETHSM-3000-2: Contemporary Asian Issues
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 B
ETHSM-3000-3: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Hubbell - 131
ETHSM-3000-4: The Future's in Color: Sci-Fi
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 103
ETHSM-3000-5: The Black Panthers and Popular Culture
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHSM-3000-7: Social Dreaming and the Dream
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Hubbell - 161 A
ETHSM-3000-8: Non-Conforming: Disability and the Arts
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Stephanie Sherman
  • Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - W2

Fall 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-2: Imagining the Middle East
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC5
ETHSM-3000-4: History of N. Indian Music and Culture
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC2
ETHSM-3000-5: The Color of Humor
  • Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC5
ETHSM-3000-6: Globalization and Hip Hop
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 A
ETHSM-3000-7: The Vinyl Experience
  • Mon 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - 103
ETHSM-3000-8: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC5
ETHSM-3000-9: ‘Tryin’ to get Free’: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E5

Summer 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-1: On Belonging
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Thu 4:00-06:00PM
ETHSM-3000-2: Asian American Arts and Cultures
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Tue 4:00-06:00PM

Spring 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-1: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N5
ETHSM-3000-2: Asian American History
  • Tue 7:15-10:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4
ETHSM-3000-3: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees
  • Tue 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101 (inactive)
ETHSM-3000-4: Bang Bang: Global Gang Culture
  • Mon 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N9
ETHSM-3000-5: The Vinyl Experience
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3
ETHSM-3000-6: ‘Tryin’ to get Free’: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Fri 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103

Fall 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHSM-3000-1: World Music
  • William Rossel
  • William Rossel
  • Fri 8:00-09:30AM
ETHSM-3000-2: Deconstructing Prison
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Fri 8:30-10:00AM
ETHSM-3000-3: ‘Tryin’ to get Free’: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Mon 11:00AM-12:30PM, Online - HS-5
ETHSM-3000-4: Poetry: Form and Colors
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Mon 8:00-09:30PM
ETHSM-3000-6: The Color of Humor
  • Thu 11:30AM-01:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC5
ETHSM-3000-7: Globalization and Hip Hop
  • Thu 11:00AM-12:30PM
ETHSM-3000-8: Black Panther Party & Pop Cult
  • Tue 8:00-09:30AM
ETHSM-3000-9: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Mon 8:00-09:30PM
ETHSM-3000-12: Shamanism and Art
  • Thu 11:00AM-12:30PM, Online - HS-3

Summer 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-3000-2: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
  • Tue 4:00-06:00PM

Spring 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-3000-1: Imagining the Middle East: Moving Pictures & Literature
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Wed 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-3
DIVSM-3000-2: Fashion & Ethnicity
  • Wed 5:00-06:25PM, Online - HS-7
DIVSM-3000-3: The Future's in Color: Sci Fi
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Wed 6:30-07:55PM, Online - HS-4
DIVSM-3000-4: The Vinyl Experience
  • Wed 6:30-07:55PM, Online - HS-5
DIVSM-3000-5: Black Experimental Narrative
  • Leila Weefur
  • Leila Weefur
  • Wed 8:00-09:25AM, Online - HS-5
DIVSM-3000-8: Gender, Class, & Production: A History of Lace
  • Erin Algeo
  • Erin Algeo
  • Wed 8:00-09:25AM, Online - HS-6
DIVSM-3000-9: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Wed 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-4
DIVSM-3000-11: From Be-Bop to Hip Hop
  • Wed 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-5
DIVSM-3000-12: A History of US People of Color
  • Wed 5:00-06:25PM, Online - HS-6
DIVSM-3000-13: 'Tryin' to Get Free': Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Wed 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-2
DIVSM-3000-14: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees
  • Tue 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-4

Summer 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-3000-5: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (Online)
  • Mon/Wed 1:00-04:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E1

Spring 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-3000-1: History of North Indian Music and Culture
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Fri 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2
DIVSM-3000-2: Fashion and Ethnicity
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103
DIVSM-3000-3: The Future's in Color: Sci Fi
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2
DIVSM-3000-4: The Vinyl Experience
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC5
DIVSM-3000-6: The Grind
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B1
DIVSM-3000-7: Contemporary AsAm Issues
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
DIVSM-3000-9: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - Shaklee - 1A
DIVSM-3000-10: Art and Activism
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B2
DIVSM-3000-11: From Be-Bop to Hip Hop
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B5
DIVSM-3000-12: A History of US People of Color
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B7
DIVSM-3000-14: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B5
DIVSM-3000-16: Image, Icon and Visual Legacy
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B2
DIVSM-3000-17: ‘Tryin’ to get Free’: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Rekia Jibrin
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC5

Fall 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-3000-1: Black Panther Party&Pop Cult
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3
DIVSM-3000-2: Asian American Literature
  • Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - B Building - B1
DIVSM-3000-3: Transnational & Intersectional Perspectives on Art, Women, and Gender
  • Lisa Marie Rollins
  • Lisa Marie Rollins
  • Fri 8:00-11:00AM, Oakland - B Building - B5
DIVSM-3000-4: The Color of Humor
  • Thu 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E4
DIVSM-3000-5: Poetry: Form and Colors
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B2
DIVSM-3000-6: Intro to North Indian Music
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Fri 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E1
DIVSM-3000-7: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Oakland - B Building - B5
DIVSM-3000-8: Popular Cultures
  • Wed 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B1
DIVSM-3000-10: Indigeneities
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E5
DIVSM-3000-11: Globalization and Hip Hop
  • Tue 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - B Building - B1
DIVSM-3000-12: Critical Perspectives of Race, Gender & Art
  • Karen Seneferu
  • Karen Seneferu
  • Wed 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103
DIVSM-3000-13: World Music
  • William Rossel
  • William Rossel
  • Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B1
DIVSM-3000-14: Shamanism and Art
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B1

Summer 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-3000-1: American Gangster
  • Mon/Wed/Fri 9:30AM-12:30PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4

Spring 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-300-01: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Brian Karl
  • Noga Wizansky
  • Brian Karl
  • Noga Wizansky
  • Thu 7:15-10:15PM, B Building - B3
DIVSM-300-02: Fashion and Ethnicity
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, Main Building - 103
DIVSM-300-03: The Future's in Color: Sci Fi
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Grad Center - GC2
DIVSM-300-04: Queer Attractors
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, Grad Center - GC5
DIVSM-300-06: Rethinking the Wild West
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B1
DIVSM-300-07: Contemporary AsAm Issues
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Grad Center - GC7
DIVSM-300-08: Border Phenomenon
  • Jose Brunner
  • Jose Brunner
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Building - W1
DIVSM-300-09: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B3
DIVSM-300-10: Art and Activism
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, B Building - B2
DIVSM-300-11: From Be-Bop to Hip Hop
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B5
DIVSM-300-12: TBA
  • TBD
  • TBD
DIVSM-300-13: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, B Building - B5
DIVSM-300-15: Screening Bollywood
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Fri 12:00-03:00PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
DIVSM-300-16: Image, Icon and Visual Legacy
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Shaklee - 1A

Fall 2018

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVSM-300-01: Black Panther Party&Pop Cult
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, Grad Center - GC3
DIVSM-300-02: Asian American Literature
  • Thu 7:15-10:15PM, B Building - B1
DIVSM-300-03: Global Women
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Ralls - 203
DIVSM-300-04: The Color of Humor
DIVSM-300-05: Poetry: Form and Colors
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, B Building - B2
DIVSM-300-06: Intro to North Indian Music
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Matthew Grasso
  • Fri 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B7
DIVSM-300-07: Spirituality as Resistance
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Vreni Michelini Castillo
  • Tue 8:00-11:00AM, B Building - B4
DIVSM-300-08: Popular Cultures
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B2
DIVSM-300-09: Native American Literatures
  • Kim Shuck
  • Kim Shuck
  • Fri 8:00-11:00AM, Grad Center - GC2
DIVSM-300-10: Indigeneities
  • Kim Shuck
  • Kim Shuck
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM
DIVSM-300-11: Globalization and Hip Hop
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Building - 101
DIVSM-300-12: Border Phenomena
  • Jose Brunner
  • Jose Brunner
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Grad Center - GC5
DIVSM-300-13: World Music
  • William Rossel
  • William Rossel
  • Fri 4:00-07:00PM, B Building - B3
DIVSM-300-14: Shamanism and Art
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM