Program: Critical Race and Ethnic Studies - University of California Merced

Mar 29, 2025

2017-2018 Catalog

In addition to adhering to General Education and School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Requirements , the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies major requires at least 44 units (some of which simultaneously meet general education requirements). Courses in the major must be taken for a letter grade, and specifically may not be taken on a pass/no pass basis unless the course is only offered on a pass/no pass basis.

Lower Division Major Core Requirement [4 units]

Complete the following course:

CRES 001: Introduction to Critical Race and Ethnic Studies [4 units]

Upper Division Major Core Requirement [12 units]

Complete the following courses:

CRES 100: Theories in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies [4 units]
CRES 110: Interdisciplinary Methods in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies [4 units]
CRES 190: Senior thesis [4 units]

Theory Requirement [4 units]

Complete one of the following courses:

ANTH 100: History of Anthropological Thought and Practice [4 units]
ENG 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice [4 units]
GASP 160: Film Theory and Criticism [4 units]
HIST 100: The Historian’s Craft [4 units]
PHIL 104: Ethical Theory [4 units]
SOC 100: Sociological Theory [4 units]
SPAN 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice [4 units]
WRI 120: Rhetorical Theory [4 units]

Non-United States Requirement [8 units]

Complete two of the following courses:

ANTH 110: Migration, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging [4 units]
ANTH 111: The Anthropology of Globalization [4 units]
ANTH 113: Urban Anthropology [4 units]
ANTH 116: Indigenous Activism in the Americas [4 units]
ANTH 117: The Anthropology of Citizenship [4 units]
ANTH 142: Archaeology of Colonialism [4 units]
ANTH 170: Ethnographic Methods [4 units]
ENG 104: Postwar, Postcolonial, Postmodern Literature and Culture: 1945 to the present [4 units]
ENG 109: Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature [4 units]
ENG 132: Human Rights and Literature [4 units]
ENG 137: Problems in Literature: Islam in English Literature from the Crusades to the War on Terror [4 units]
GASP 065A: Bollywood [4 units]
GASP 112: Visual Cultures of India: 19th Century to Present [4 units]
GASP 158B: Women, Gender, and Art in Islamic Cultures [4 units]
HIST 027: History of Food [4 units]
HIST 127: Local Harvest, Global Industry: History of the Production and Consumption of Food [4 units]
HIST 141: The African Diaspora [4 units]
HIST 143: West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World [4 units]
SPAN 111: Empire, The Postcolonial, and Representation: Reading East & West [4 units]
SPAN 143: Latin American Literature since Independence [4 units]
WRI 121: International Rhetoric [4 units]

Additional Elective Requirement [16 units]

Complete four of the following courses. At least two must be upper division. This list will continue to expand as relevant new courses enter the campus course catalog.

ANTH 150: Race and Human Variation [4 units]
ANTH 172: Ethnohistory [4 units]
CCST 113: Latino and Immigrant Health [4 units] or PH 113
COGS 005: Introduction to Language and Linguistics [4 units]
ECON 111: American Economic History [4 units]
ENG 031: Introduction to African-American Literature and Culture [4 units]
ENG 113: U.S. Latino/a Literature [4 units] or SPAN 113
ENG 114: Latinos/as in Children’s Literature and Film [4 units] or SPAN 114
ENG 115: Chicano/a Literature [4 units] or SPAN 115
ENG 117: Literature of California [4 units]
ENG 155: Toni Morrison and James Baldwin [4 units]
GASP 003: Introduction to Visual Culture [4 units]
GASP 007: Music in Society [4 units]
GASP 171: Museums as Contested Sites [4 units]
GASP 175: Race and Nationalism in American Art [4 units]
HIST 017: Twentieth-Century America [4 units]
HIST 107: Topics in Urban History [4 units]
HIST 123: Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the United States [4 units]
HIST 124A: African American History to 1877 [4 units]
HIST 124B: African American History 1877 to Present [4 units]
HIST 124BR: African American History 1877 to Present: Research [4 units]
HIST 129: Introduction to Chicano History [4 units]
HIST 132: Intelligence and National Security, 1945-2000 [4 units]
HIST 133: Topics in Nineteenth Century U.S. History [4 units]
PSY 124: Health Disparities [4 units]
PSY 151: The Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice [4 units]
PSY 152: Psychological Perspectives on Cultural, Racial and Ethnic Diversity [4 units]
SOC 036: Globalization [4 units]
SOC 038: Sociology of Race and Racism [4 units]
SOC 110: Social Movements, Protest and Collective Action [4 units]
SOC 145: Sociology of Health [4 units]
SOC 180: Advanced Issues in Race and Ethnicity [4 units]
SOC 181: Chicanos in U.S. Society [4 units]
SOC 182: Current Topics in Immigration [4 units]
SPAN 112: Chicano/a Literature Written in Spanish [4 units]
SPAN 175: Spanish in the U.S. [4 units]
SPAN 177: Sociolinguistics and Latino Health [4 units]
WRI 140: Topics in Ethnic Writing [4 units]

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Lower Division Major Core Requirement [4 units]

Upper Division Major Core Requirement [12 units]

Theory Requirement [4 units]

Non-United States Requirement [8 units]

Additional Elective Requirement [16 units]

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