Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
College of Letters and Science
Group Office: 506 Barrows Hall, (510) 643-0796
Chair: Catherine Ceniza Choy, PhD
Group Website: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Overview
The Ethnic Studies Graduate Group doctoral program focuses on the historical and sociocultural study of the core groups racialized in United States history: African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos and Latinos, and Native Americans. Transdisciplinary in approach, the program encourages students to adopt a broad range of theories and methods to analyze the construction of these racialized ethnocultural groups in relation to each other, in the EuroAmerican context, and in a transnational context.
The Ethnic Studies PhD Program is a graduate group program, which means that its courses are taught, and its students advised, by faculty not only from the Department of Ethnic Studies but also from other departments on campus. The core faculty consists of faculty from the Department of Ethnic Studies (composed of Asian American Studies, Chicano and Latino Studies, and Native American Studies) and the Department of African American Studies. The affiliated faculty is composed of faculty from other departments on campus whose expertise and research interests address the concerns of comparative ethnic studies and who have expressed a special interest in working with graduate students in ethnic studies. Both core and affiliated faculty may teach courses and sit on the examination and dissertation committees of students in the Ethnic Studies Graduate Group doctoral program.
Students may obtain information regarding the requirements and curriculum from the student affairs officer of the Ethnic Studies Graduate Group.
ETH GRP 200 Critical Terms and Issues in Comparative Ethnic Studies 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Introduction to the field examining the critical practices and salient terms and issues in the study of contemporary cultural and social formations. The focus is interdisciplinary.
Formerly known as 200A.
ETH GRP 201 History and Narrativity: Contemporary Theories and Methods 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The course examines critical theories and methods in the production of historical narratives, social myths, and ideologies dealing with racialization and ethnicity. Special attention is given to employment strategies, tropes, and allegorical forms in the construction of historical events and narratives.
Formerly known as 200B.
ETH GRP 202 Cultural Texts: Contemporary Theories and Methods 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The course examines critical theories and methods in the production of cultural knowledge in the humanities. Special attention is given to transdisciplinary articulation with theories and methods in the social sciences.
ETH GRP 203 Social Structures: Contemporary Theories and Methods 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The course examines critical theories and methods in the production of knowledge relevant to social, political, economic, and institutional structures. Special attention is given to transdisciplinary articulation with theories and methods in the humanities.
ETH GRP 230 Series in Transdisciplinary Comparative Theories and Methods 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Research seminar focus is on critical history and practices across disciplines.
ETH GRP 240 Series in Comparative Transnational Theories and Methods 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Research seminar focus is on critical theories and practices in transnational comparative frameworks.
ETH GRP 250 Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 200 or consent of instructor.
A seminar course designed to involve Ethnic Studies students directly in the research process. Emphasis on examination and analysis of primary sources, methodology, and the development of theoretical constructs. A major research paper is required.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ETH GRP 296 Directed Dissertation Research 4 - 12 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Individual instruction.
For qualified students directly working on the doctoral dissertation.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ETH GRP 299 Directed Reading 2 - 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual instruction. Individual instruction.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A term paper is required.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ETH GRP 302 Professional Orientation 2 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
This seminar is intended to instruct new graduate students in the behavior of professional academics including research, teaching, and academic ethics.
Instructor: Hilden
ETH GRP 303 Professional Writing 2 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
This course trains graduate students in writing for professional purposes, such as preparing conference presentations, articles for publication in journals, applications for funding, prequalifying exam position papers, dissertation prospectuses, dissertation chapters, book prospectuses, job applications, etc. Students bring in drafts of their writing for intensive critique by the instructor and fellow students.
ETH GRP C375/AFRICAM C375 Critical Pedagogy: Instructor Training 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group; African American Studies
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar and 2 hours of practicum per week.
The seminar provides a systemic approach to theories and practices of critical pedagogy at the university level. Examines the arts of teaching and learning and current disciplinary and cross-disciplinary issues in African/diaspora and Ethnic Studies. Participation two hours per week as practicum in 39, "Introduction to the University: African American Perspectives" is mandatory. The course is required for students expecting to serve as graduate student instructors in the department.
Instructors: Clark, Wong
ETH GRP 601 Individual Study for Master's Students 4 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Individual instruction.
Individual study, in consultation with Group faculty, to prepare students for master's examinations.
Course may be repeated once for credit.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units.
ETH GRP 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 2 - 8 Units
Department: Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: 200A-200B.
Individual study, in consultation with Group faculty, to prepare students for the doctoral oral examinations. A student will be permitted to accumulate a maximum of 16 units in 601 and 602, respectively, toward examination preparation. Units earned in these courses may not be used to meet academic residence or unit requirements for the master's or doctoral degree.
Course may be repeated for credit.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units.
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