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ETHST-3000: Critical Ethnic Studies Studio

Course Description

Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level studios 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 through art, writing, and design practices. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational, and intersectional approaches for producing works related to power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from 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, Women’s studies, border studies, cultural studies, Queer studies and global racialized and marginalized communities. Studio courses bridge the gap between seminar and studio courses and can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

Academic Level: Undergraduate

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

Subjects

Sections

Summer 2025

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: Communication & Translation: Design in Seoul
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad
  • Tue 4:00-05:00PM
  • Mon 4:00-05:00PM

Fall 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-3: Painting in Communities
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N7

Summer 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: Study Abroad: Japan: In Search of Emptiness & Wabi Sabi
  • David Asari
  • David Asari
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad

Spring 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: Mapping Change
  • Fri 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - 141 (inactive)

Fall 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: Agitprop: Issues and Causes
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Hubbell - 151
ETHST-3000-3: Conjure!: African Sacred Art
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 102 A

Summer 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-2: Study Abroad: Material Cultures: Mexico City, Oaxaca, & Beyond
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad
  • Tue/Wed/Thu 2:00-05:00PM
ETHST-3000-7: Graphic Design in Seoul
  • christopher hamamoto
  • christopher hamamoto
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad
ETHST-3000-8: Japan: In Search of Emptiness & Wabi Sabi
  • David Asari
  • David Asari
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM
  • Sat 9:00AM-12:00PM
  • Fri 9:00AM-04:00PM
  • Tue/Wed 10:00AM-03:00PM

Spring 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: Mural Project
  • Mon/Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC5
ETHST-3000-3: Radical Redesign
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Hubbell - 151
ETHST-3000-5: Telling Stories
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Hubbell - 141
ETHST-3000-6: Hybridism and Multi-Ethnicity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E2

Fall 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: Locality and Global Discourse
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Hooper GC - GC7
ETHST-3000-2: Catalyst for Change
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, Hubbell - 111 (Drawing Studio)
ETHST-3000-3: Telling Stories
  • Mon/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - E5
ETHST-3000-6: Painting in Communities
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N14/16 (2D Studio)
ETHST-3000-7: Agitprop: Issues and Causes
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM
ETHST-3000-8: Taste of Resistance
  • Gaia WXYZ
  • Gaia WXYZ
  • Sat 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 141
ETHST-3000-9: Conjure
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N13 (Fine Arts Senior Studios)

Summer 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: Race and Comics
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Mon/Wed 2:00-04:00PM
ETHST-3000-3: Spain: The Silk-Road Studio
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad

Spring 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: Mural Project
  • Mon/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3
ETHST-3000-3: Radical Redesign
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - N3
ETHST-3000-4: Non-Conforming: Disability and the Arts
  • Leah King
  • Leah King
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - N15
ETHST-3000-5: Telling Stories
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2
ETHST-3000-6: Hybridism and Multi-Ethnicity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 141
ETHST-3000-9: Primeval Intersection
  • Guillermo Galindo
  • Guillermo Galindo
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 141

Fall 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
ETHST-3000-1: World Poets of Resistance
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-10:00AM
ETHST-3000-2: Multiculturalism & Identity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Meeting Time TBD
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-10:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - E4
ETHST-3000-3: Catalyst for Change
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-10:00AM
ETHST-3000-4: Telling Stories
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-10:00PM
ETHST-3000-5: Primeval Intersection
  • Leah King
  • Leah King
  • Meeting Time TBD
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-10:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103
ETHST-3000-6: Citizen Artists/Designers/Journalists
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-10:00AM
ETHST-3000-7: Painting in Communities
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-10:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - N14/N16
ETHST-3000-8: Agitprop: Issues and Causes
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-10:00PM
ETHST-3000-9: Taste of Resistance
  • Acacia Woods Chan
  • Acacia Woods Chan
  • Mon/Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM

Summer 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-3000-3: Race and Comics
  • Breena Nunez
  • Breena Nunez
  • Mon/Wed 2:00-04:00PM

Spring 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-3000-1: Locality & Global Discourses
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Wed 8:00-09:55AM
DIVST-3000-2: Making Sense: Decolonizing Creativity Through the Senses
  • Acacia Woods Chan
  • Acacia Woods Chan
  • Tue 7:00-08:55PM, Online - HS-3
DIVST-3000-3: Redbone
  • Tue 7:00-08:55PM, Online - HS-5
DIVST-3000-4: Telling Stories
  • Wed 8:00-09:55AM
DIVST-3000-6: Catalyst for Change
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Tue 7:00-08:55PM, Online - HS-4
DIVST-3000-8: Hybrid-ism and Multi-ethnicity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Wed 5:00-06:55PM
DIVST-3000-11: Radical Redesign
  • Wed 5:00-06:55PM
DIVST-3000-13: World Poetry of Resistance
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Wed 5:00-06:55PM
DIVST-3000-14: Non-Conforming: Disability and the Arts
  • Noga Wizansky
  • Noga Wizansky
  • Tue 10:00-11:55AM
DIVST-3000-15: Art & Society
  • Tue 10:00-11:55AM, Online - FA-2
DIVST-3000-16: CONJURE! African Sacred Art
  • Tue 10:00-11:55AM, Online - HS-5
DIVST-3000-18: Mural Project
  • Tue 10:00-11:55AM
DIVST-3000-19: The Grind (Hybrid)
  • Tue 10:00-11:55AM, Online - HS-6
DIVST-3000-20: Painting in Communities (Hybrid)
  • Tue 10:00-11:55AM, Online - HS-7
DIVST-3000-21: Paintings in Communities
  • Tue 10:00-11:55AM, Online - HS-7

Fall 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-3000-2: Mural Art
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM
DIVST-3000-3: Agitprop: Issues and Causes
  • Tue/Fri 4:00-07:00PM
DIVST-3000-4: Radical Redesign
  • Mon/Thu 7:15-10:15PM
DIVST-3000-5: Citizen Artists/Designers/Journalists
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM
DIVST-3000-9: Race and Comics
  • Breena Nunez
  • Breena Nunez
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Online - HS-3
DIVST-3000-10: Your Art, Your Impact: Education and Community Development 
  • Amana Harris
  • Amana Harris
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-11:00AM
DIVST-3000-11: Multiculturalism & Identity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM
DIVST-3000-12: Catalyst for Change
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Thu 12:00-06:00PM
DIVST-3000-13: Telling Stories
  • Wed 12:00-06:00PM
DIVST-3000-15: Painting in Communities
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM
DIVST-3000-17: Primeval Intersection
  • Guillermo Galindo
  • Guillermo Galindo
  • Wed 9:00AM-12:00PM
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM

Summer 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-3000-12: RADICAL LOCAL: Global Explorations in the Pandemic Era (Online)
  • Every Weekday 10:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 210
DIVST-3000-14: Race and Comics (Online)
  • Breena Nunez
  • Breena Nunez

Spring 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-3000-1: Locality & Global Discourses
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC6
DIVST-3000-3: Redbone
  • Mon/Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - B Building - B7
DIVST-3000-4: Telling Stories
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 140
DIVST-3000-5: Decolonize & Design: Methodologies & Practices
  • Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera
  • Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - W2
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E2
DIVST-3000-6: Catalyst for Change
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Mon/Wed 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4
DIVST-3000-7: Mural Project
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Martinez - 5
DIVST-3000-11: Radical Redesign
  • Tue 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 141
  • Thu 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 141
DIVST-3000-12: Painting in Communities
  • Tue 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Martinez - 6
DIVST-3000-13: A Taste of Resistance
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Ralls - 203
DIVST-3000-15: World Poetry of Resistence
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E5
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E5
DIVST-3000-18: Non-Conforming: Disability and the Arts
  • Noga Wizansky
  • Noga Wizansky
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101
DIVST-3000-19: Art & Society
  • Mon/Wed 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B7
DIVST-3000-20: Outskirts of an Urban Blue Print
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Ralls - 202

Fall 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-3000-1: Hybrid-Ism & Multi-Ethnicity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E5
DIVST-3000-2: Mural Art
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Martinez - 5
DIVST-3000-3: Agitprop: Issues and Causes
  • Tue/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC1
DIVST-3000-4: Radical Redesign
  • Tue/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2
DIVST-3000-7: CONJURE! African Sacred Art
  • Mon 9:00-11:55AM, Oakland - B Building - B7
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - Shaklee - 1A
DIVST-3000-8: A Taste of Resistance
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Shaklee - 1A
DIVST-3000-9: Race and Comics
  • Breena Nunez
  • Breena Nunez
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Martinez - 6
DIVST-3000-10: Art & the Public Interest
  • Amana Harris
  • Amana Harris
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - Shaklee - 1A
DIVST-3000-11: Multiculturalism & Identity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101
DIVST-3000-12: Catalyst for Change
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B2
DIVST-3000-13: Telling Stories
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103
DIVST-3000-14: Painting in Communities
  • Tue 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Martinez - 5
DIVST-3000-15: Digging in the World! The garden as form and tool
  • Thu 12:00-06:00PM, Oakland - Shaklee - 22

Summer 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-3000-1: Japan: Search for Emptiness
  • David Asari
  • David Asari
  • Wed 10:00AM-04:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM
  • Sat 10:00AM-04:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4
  • Sat 10:00AM-04:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4
  • Sat 10:00AM-04:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4
DIVST-3000-2: Spain: The Silk-Road Studio
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM
DIVST-3000-3: Unknown Forms: Graphic Design in South Korea
  • christopher hamamoto
  • christopher hamamoto
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM
  • Every Weekday 9:00AM-01:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N9
DIVST-3000-4: The Hero Within
  • Amana Harris
  • Amana Harris
  • Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu 2:00-06:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 200
  • Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu 2:00-06:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N14/N16

Spring 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-300-01: Locality & Global Discourses
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC6
DIVST-300-02: Art in the Public Interest
  • Amana Harris
  • Amana Harris
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Martinez - 6
DIVST-300-03: Redbone
  • Mon/Wed 7:15-10:15PM, B Building - B7
DIVST-300-04: Telling Stories
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - N11
DIVST-300-05: Decolonize/Dsgn: Puerto Rico
  • Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera
  • Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera
  • Mon/Wed 4:00-07:00PM, Main Building - N7
DIVST-300-06: Catalyst for Change
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Mon/Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC4
DIVST-300-07: Engage: Mural Project
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - N10/N12
DIVST-300-08: Native American Arts
  • Kim Shuck
  • Kim Shuck
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - 101
DIVST-300-09: Art & Society
  • Mon/Wed 4:00-07:00PM, B Building - B7
DIVST-300-10: Toned Paper
  • Tue 9:00AM-03:00PM, Martinez - 5
DIVST-300-11: CONJURE! African Sacred Art
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Shaklee - 1A
  • Tue 9:00AM-12:00PM, B Building - B1
DIVST-300-12: Painting in Communities
  • Tue 9:00AM-03:00PM, Martinez - 6
DIVST-300-13: A Taste of Resistance
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Martinez - 5
DIVST-300-14: Primeval Intersection
  • Guillermo Galindo
  • Guillermo Galindo
  • Mon 9:00AM-12:00PM, B Building - B7
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Shaklee - 1A
DIVST-300-15: World Poetry of Resistence
  • Devorah Major
  • Devorah Major
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Building - 101
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Main Building - 101
DIVST-300-16: TBA
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, B Building - B7

Fall 2018

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
DIVST-300-01: Hybrid-Ism & Multi-Ethnicity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - E5
DIVST-300-02: Engage: Mural Art
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Eduardo Pineda
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - N14/N16
DIVST-300-03: Agitprop: Issues and Causes
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC1
DIVST-300-04: Identity Narratives
  • Makia Sharp
  • Makia Sharp
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B5
DIVST-300-05: Power of 1:1
  • Sandra Vivanco
  • Sandra Vivanco
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM
DIVST-300-07: CONJURE! African Sacred Art
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Shaklee - 1A
DIVST-300-08: A Taste of Resistance
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Sita Bhaumik
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Shaklee - 1A
DIVST-300-09: Race and Comics
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Martinez - 6
DIVST-300-10: Art & the Public Interest
  • Amana Harris
  • Amana Harris
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Shaklee - 1A
DIVST-300-11: Multiculturalism & Identity
  • Mariella Poli
  • Mariella Poli
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - 101
DIVST-300-12: Catalyst for Change
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, B Building - B2
DIVST-300-13: Telling Stories
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - 103
DIVST-300-14: Painting in Communities
  • Tue 9:00AM-03:00PM, Martinez - 5
DIVST-300-16: Radical Redesign
  • Tue/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Shaklee - 1A