CRES 10 Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: An Introduction
Examines the concept of race, followed by an investigation of colorblindness, multiculturalism, and post-racialism. Race and ethnicity are examined as historically formulated in relationship to the concepts of gender, sexuality, class, nationalism, indigeneity, citizenship, immigration, and inequality.
Credits
5
Instructor
Marisol LeBron
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing requirement.
General Education Code
ER
Quarter offered
Fall, Summer
CRES 14 Center for Racial Justice Service Learning
Supplemented by invited guest speakers and field activities, this Center for Racial Justice-sponsored course is facilitated by an activist-in-residence. Through critical readings, discussions, and situated learning, students take part in an experiential learning project and contribute service hours to a community-based organization.
Credits
5
Instructor
Staff
Repeatable for credit
Yes
General Education Code
PR-S
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 15 Resource Centers Service Learning Course
This service learning course offers students of all majors the opportunity to intern at UCSC Resource Centers. Students organize educational community-oriented programs and projects to address retention and equity issues in higher education. Through this course, students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, project planning, and writing skills by combining theoretical concepts and experiential learning experience. Students explore texts that highlight resiliency of minoritized communities through the study of trans, queer, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Black, American Indian, Chicanx/Latinx, undocumented, and feminist political thought.
Credits
5
Instructor
Staff
Repeatable for credit
Yes
General Education Code
PR-S
Quarter offered
Fall
CRES 25 Race / Land / Property
Provides a long historical account of the accumulation of land through logics of dispossession within the system of racial capitalism. Students explore the historical methods of claiming private property as a racialised project. Questions of settler-colonialism, imperialism, indigeneity, place and placelessness as well as claims to land and sovereignty are key to our inquiry. Focus is on the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade, specifically through examples in England, the Caribbean and North America.
Credits
5
Quarter offered
Summer
CRES 45 Pilipinx Historical Dialogue
Examines the history, politics, and cultural expressions of the Pilipinx community, in the Philippines and the diaspora, with an emphasis on Pilipinx and Pilipinx-American activism.
Credits
5
Instructor
The Staff
General Education Code
ER
Quarter offered
Winter
CRES 60E Blackness and Indigeneity in Europe
What are the contours of Black Europe? This course emphasizes a range of disciplinary approaches to the concepts of blackness and indigeneity, introducing and questioning Black Europe as a field, a culture, and a set of ideologies.
Credits
5
Instructor
Samantha The Staff
General Education Code
ER
CRES 68 Approaches to Black Studies
Provides a diasporic approach to the field of Black Studies in the modern era, with a focus on histories of dispossession and resistance.
Credits
5
Instructor
Sophie Azeb
General Education Code
ER
Quarter offered
Fall
CRES 70B Black Radical University?
Course emerges from a collaboration with the Black Student Union around Black student organizing and Black liberationist pedagogies. Students explore and archive histories of Black student organizing on the UC Santa Cruz campus and beyond (locally, nationally, and globally), as well as Black liberationist pedagogy (e.g., decolonial thought in the Third World, freedom schools in the U.S. South, Black Panther Party liberation schools, Black feminist pedagogies). Course is offered for pass/no pass grading only.
Credits
5
Instructor
The Staff
Quarter offered
Spring
CRES 70S Introduction to the Sikhs
Introduces the Sikh community, including its origins, history, belief system and contemporary challenges. Other topics include Sikh music, art, literature, and aspects of Sikh society. Specific attention is paid to the Sikh diaspora community in the United States, and in California in particular, including comparative perspectives with respect to other minority communities.
Credits
2
Instructor
Naindeep Chann
Quarter offered
Winter
CRES 70U (Un)docu Studies
Deconstructs the common perception of immigration as strictly a Latinx issue in order to develop solidarity among different groups of students and to explore a range of narratives surrounding undocumented status and migration with the aim of empowering us as agents of transformative social change. Legal papers, as a violent affirmation of settler sovereignty, do not capture the complexities of who we are, much less all our relations—to each other, to place, to life worlds. By exploring those complexities, we strive to create a communal space where we courageously articulate self, community, and relationality in ways that state documents must disavow. Course is offered for Pass/No Pass grading only.
Credits
5
Instructor
The Staff
Quarter offered
Spring
CRES 94 Group Tutorial
A lower-division group tutorial, led by a faculty member, that focuses on various problems within critical race and ethnic studies. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and undergraduate student participants. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.
Credits
5
Instructor
The Staff
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 94F Group Tutorial
A program of independent study arranged between a group of students and a faculty instructor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.
Credits
2
Instructor
The Staff
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 99 Tutorial
Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
Credits
5
Instructor
The Staff
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 100 Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity
Examines race and ethnicity as categories of lived identity intersecting with gender, sexuality, class, and culture; historical discourses of difference underwriting social inequalities and movements to redress those inequalities; and concepts critical to the understanding and reshaping of power and privilege.
Credits
5
Instructor
Jenny Kelly
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level and Composition requirements.
General Education Code
ER
Quarter offered
Winter
CRES 101 Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Introduces students to tools, conceptual frameworks, keywords, and methods for research and writing in critical race and ethnic studies. Drawing from ethnic studies, Asian American studies, Arab American studies, Black studies, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, feminist studies, and queer studies, students analyze how scholars do the work of studying the effects of and resistance to U.S. colonialism, capitalism, empire, war, globalization, and migration. Examines questions of settler colonial state practice, dispossession, diaspora, incarceration, and the ethics of research methods. Students practice the craft of writing about race, colonialism, state violence, and the manifold movements that imagine alternative, decolonized futures.
Credits
5
Instructor
Jennifer Mogannam
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements.
Quarter offered
Spring
CRES 111 The Sounds of Struggle
Explores relations between music and democratic politics. Is harmony the ideal condition of the nation-state? Is disharmony a necessary condition of democracy? Students read literary texts alongside political philosophy and listen to music as we explore how musical recordings and performances produce our understanding of the citizen-nation relationship.
Credits
5
General Education Code
ER
CRES 112 AsianAm Enviro Justice
Explores the concept of environmental racism in a transnational framework, focusing on the shaping of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the United States and in the current and former territories of U.S. empire in the Pacific. Students explore environmental racism within the historical contexts of U.S. militarism and imperial warfare, empire and settler colonialism, disasters and disaster aid, and climate change refugeehood.
Credits
5
Instructor
Danielle Crawford
CRES 113 Music and Performance
Considers issues of race, place, gender, power, and identities through the converging fields of Black studies and performance studies. Emphasizes global diasporic histories of broad music production and performance from the 14th century onward with an emphasis on the making and performance of global Black social life. Primarily creative in nature, the course allows students to practice creative processes and allows opportunities to produce music and generate performance art.
Credits
5
Instructor
Fahima Ife
General Education Code
PR-C
Quarter offered
Fall
CRES 114 Race and Disability in American Drama
Investigates how African-American, Asian-American, and Latin-American playwrights represent and criticize the concept of race and disability in their dramas on topics from freak shows to Jim Crow laws to the Virginia Tech massacre. Students cannot receive credit for this course and LIT 151K.
Credits
5
Instructor
Ka-Eul Yoo
General Education Code
IM
CRES 116 Race and the Pacific: U.S. and Japanese Empires in Comparative Perspective
A lens on the U.S. and Japanese empires that moves beyond the limits of traditional area and ethnic studies by thinking comparatively about the racial logic of empire. Examines how the U.S. and Japanese empires as rival powers that from the early 20th century onward, have competed against and conspired with each other in Asia and the Pacific.
Credits
5
Instructor
Yuki Obayashi
General Education Code
CC
CRES 118 Abolitionist Futures
Grounded in local, national, and global prison abolition movements, this course explores through feminist political frameworks creative strategies that imagine and work to end all systems of domination and exploitation. Looks at California's prisoner organizing and abolition movements, along with other historic and contemporary social movements which deepen our understandings of the ways in which carceral systems are shaped by and through capitalist formations of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Also examines strategies such as disability justice and transformative justice which demonstrate expansive and liberatory visions of abolition, extending far beyond the prison system itself.
Credits
5
CRES 120 Third World Feminisms
Places the thought and praxis developed and pursued by Third Worldist women, queer, and gender nonconforming peoples at the center of a conversation on the conditions of coloniality and pursuits of liberation from the entwined tyrannies of imperial, racial, and gendered oppressions. Course asks how African, Asian, Caribbean, and other Third Worldist women activists, artists, and scholars imagined and defined what liberation might have looked like in the 20th century, and what it might mean today.
Credits
5
Instructor
Sophia Azeb
CRES 121 The Struggle for K-12 Ethnic Studies
Critical analysis of the movement for K-12 ethnic studies in historical and contemporary time periods with a particular focus on the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. Students read, discuss, and analyze past and present K-12 ethnic studies research, policy, and practice to deepen their knowledge and strengthen their ability to critique issues in K-12 ethnic studies education while reflecting on how the concepts and questions that arise relate to their own educational experiences and lives.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
EDUC 121
Instructor
Tricia Gallagher-Geursten
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Summer
CRES 131 Black Freedom Movements
Examines the development of Black freedom movements ranging from resistance to slavery to contemporary movements for Black power in Jackson, Mississippi. Interdisciplinary in scope, course examines a variety of materials ranging from novels, to autobiographies, to political manifestos in order to understand fully the broad scope of Black freedom movements.
Credits
5
Instructor
Xavier Livermon
General Education Code
ER
Quarter offered
Spring
CRES 132 Black Speculations
Traces the heterogenous historic, material, and ephemeral manifestations of Blackness and the Black radical imaginary in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and visionary literary, sonic, and visual cultural forms. Identifies how Black speculative aesthetic, cultural, and political practices reorients understanding of the past, recalibrates elation to the present, remaps assumptive notions of space and time, and allows us to reimagine our futures. Class collectively identifies, interprets, and puts into conversation the meaning-making speculative practices of Black diasporic writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, abolitionists, even in genres and traditions seldom thought of as speculative. Class pays particular attention to Black diasporic/international contributions to these genres.
Credits
5
Instructor
Sophia Azeb
General Education Code
TA
CRES 140 Latina/o/x Geographies
Explores questions like: Who is Latinx? What communities does this include/exclude? How extensive of a geography does Latinidad cover? What is the political usefulness of Latinidad in the face of overwhelming heterogeneity? How does Latinx Geographies reckon with or overcome the anti-Black and de-Indigenizing nationalist projects of Latinidad in Latin America and in the U.S.? Students learn how to define Latinx geographies and evaluate its disciplinary boundaries and assess the work of Latinx geographers and their ability to negotiate historic tensions within academia and Latinx studies.
Credits
5
Instructor
Luis Trujillo
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10.
CRES 150 Race, Gender and Algorithms
Algorithms shape race and gender today, yet algorithms are older than digital media and can be understood as recipes or rituals. Course engages with the emerging field of trans of color poetics by studying readings in women of color feminism, transgender studies, and decolonial theory. Digital media art grounds the discussion, including works from queer and trans artists of color working in digital games, anti-surveillance fashion and performance art. Students create digital media projects in response to the ideas of the course, in the medium or platform of their choice, including video prototypes, web sites, Scalar books, Twine games, podcasts and/or video channels, the technical aspects of which will be covered in class.
Credits
5
Instructor
Micha Cardenas
CRES 160 Latina/o/x Geographies
Explores questions like: Who is Latinx? What communities does this include/exclude? How extensive of a geography does Latinidad cover? What is the political usefulness of Latinidad in the face of overwhelming heterogeneity? How does Latinx Geographies reckon with or overcome the anti-Black and de-Indigenizing nationalist projects of Latinidad in Latin America and in the U.S.? Students learn how to define Latinx geographies and evaluate its disciplinary boundaries and assess the work of Latinx geographers and their ability to negotiate historic tensions within academia and Latinx studies.
Credits
5
Instructor
Luis Trujillo
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10.
Quarter offered
Winter
CRES 181 The Lynch Doctrine: From Rough Justice to Stand Your Ground
Interdisciplinary course examining the history, politics, and aesthetics of lynching culture in the United States.
Credits
5
Instructor
The Staff
General Education Code
ER
CRES 185A Race, Gender, and Science
Examines how science as epistemology and its accompanying practices participate in, create, and are created by understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and nation.
Credits
5
Instructor
The Staff
CRES 188A Topics in Transnational Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies
Focuses on a particular topic in Asian American and Pacific Islander studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, with a focus on a transnational critique of intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, lived experiences and critical theories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Credits
5
Instructor
Fuifui Niumeitolu
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Spring
CRES 188B Topics in Black Studies
Focuses on a particular topic in black studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, with a focus on the intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, lived experiences, and critical theories of peoples throughout the Black diaspora and Africa.
Credits
5
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 188M Topics in Critical Migration Studies
Focuses on a particular topic in migrant and migration studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include examining the intersections of race, gender, and citizenship through a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, intellectual histories, and political movements as they relate to labor and capital, imperialism and neoliberalism, the racialized criminalization of movement, detention and deportation, and violence against migrant workers.
Credits
5
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 188S Topics in Settler Colonial Critique
Focuses on a particular topic in settler and colonial studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include examining the intersections of race and racism through a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, intellectual histories, and political movements as they relate to empire, racial capitalization, colonial occupation and dispossession, mass incarceration and concepts of property and accumulation.
Credits
5
Repeatable for credit
Yes
General Education Code
ER
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 188T Topics in Race, Science and Technology
Focuses on a particular topic in race and science/technology. Topics vary, but focus on the history and politics of scientific inquiry and technological development within legacies and realities of racism and colonialism, including in the areas of public health, migration, labor, and reproductive rights.
Credits
5
Instructor
The Staff
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 188X Topics in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Focuses on a particular topic in critical race and ethnic studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including indigenous studies, Black studies, Latinx studies, Asian American studies, queer critique, gender studies, transgender studies, performance studies, human rights studies, mixed race studies, legal studies, critical area studies, war and empire studies, environmental studies, science studies, and critical university studies.
Credits
5
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 190A Critical Race Feminisms
Focuses on key learning outcomes of humanistic research and writing: developing a method for critical race feminist analysis, identifying objects and fields of study, formulating an appropriately narrow topic and thesis, identifying and critiquing sources, and completing well-structured written argumentation. Readings offer key theoretical models in critical race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, and queer theory.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
FMST 194S
Instructor
Xavier Livermon
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.
Quarter offered
Fall
CRES 190B Critical Migration Studies
Focuses on critically analyzing public representations of migration. Exploring key scholarship in migration and diaspora studies, including recent writings on "border crises," students develop an individual research project exploring a controversy, archive, cultural text, or historical debate in research on a specific migrant or diasporic group. The focus is on key learning outcomes of humanistic research and writing: developing a method for studying migration attentive to critical race analysis; identifying objects and fields of study, formulating research questions, organizing an appropriately narrow thesis, identifying and critiquing sources, and completing well-structured written argumentation.
Credits
5
Instructor
Thien-Huong Ninh
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.
Quarter offered
Fall
CRES 190C The Black Transnational
Senior seminar focusing on the transnational circulation of Black political and cultural thought and practice in the 20th century. Explores the dynamics of Black transnational circulations beyond (and often in spite of) imposed national and international borders that have historically and continue presently to dictate, criminalize, or otherwise obstruct or limit the free movement of Black peoples. Aimsto permit students to trace the multidirectional, radical imaginary of such Black diasporic circulations, cataloguing the possibilities that Black transnational political and cultural thought and practice engendered alongside the differences and contestations these formations might reveal.
Credits
5
Instructor
Sophia Azeb
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 190D Black Geographies and the Imperative of Abolition
Far from a recent development, abolitionist demands to defund the police are actually central to a 400-year legacy of Black struggle. In the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings that erupted in response to several high-profile police murders, this senior seminar takes an interdisciplinary look at the burgeoning field of Black geographies to help us understand the renewed urgency of these calls in our current moment by engaging with works of activism, speculative fiction, and multimedia, including videos, podcasts, music, websites, and graphics.
Credits
5
Instructor
Camilla Hawthorne
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 190F Black Queer Film
Students critically examine public representations of Black queer and trans communities. Work is grounded in analysis of Black feminist, Black queer, and Black trans thought in relation to critical media studies.
Credits
5
Instructor
Fahima Ife
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior CRES majors.
Quarter offered
Fall
CRES 190P Trans of Color Performance and Media
Trans of color poetics are emerging in media art and performance, the voice of movements for liberation from colonial systems of racialized gender, and the structures which uphold them, including the prison-industrial complex. Trans people of color, and people who exist in resistance to colonial gender constructs are responding to the ways that both popular media and academic fields such as transgender studies have focused on white, wealthy, normative transgender subjects. Seminar considers the social movements and the embodied movement of trans people of color and gender non-conforming people in media, art and performance. (FormerlyTrans of Color Movements in Media, Art and Performance.)
Credits
5
Instructor
Micha Cardenas
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.
Quarter offered
Spring
CRES 190S From Slavery to Precarity: Race, Logistics and Globalization
Over the past half-century, there has been a profound transformation in the way that goods are produced and moved about the world resulting in what has been referred to as the "logistics revolution". Course examines the ways in which this "revolution" in mass circulation of goods necessitates a radical thinking of race and racial politics in the context of contemporary capitalist globalization.
Credits
5
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.
CRES 190T The War on Terror: Imperialism Past and Present
Senior seminar focusing on the theoretical underpinnings of U.S. imperialism from a global perspective, from the annexation of the Philippines in 1898 to the current War on Terror. Drawing on the history of U.S. settler-colonialism and liberal empire as racial projects, the course investigates contemporary forms of racialization surrounding the Muslim as figure for foreign enemy. Utilizing a diverse range of media, course considers various theoretical texts in critical race and ethnic studies, visual studies, gender and queer studies, history, and literature.
Credits
5
Instructor
Jabbar Talib
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.
CRES 190X Racial Capitalism
Overview of the history and conceptualization of racial capitalism.Students studyrecent works in critical race and ethnic studiesthat analyze capitalism as a specifically racial phenomenon, and evaluate theircontribution in a historical lens.
Credits
5
Instructor
Nick Mitchell
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior CRES majors.
Quarter offered
Spring
CRES 192 Directed Student Teaching
Teaching of a lower-division seminar by an upper-division student under faculty supervision. (See CRES 42.)
Credits
5
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 194 Group Tutorial
Group tutorial, led by a faculty member, that focuses on various problems within critical race and ethnic studies. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and undergraduate student participants. Enrollment restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.
Credits
5
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 199 Tutorial
Students submit a petition to the sponsoring agency.
Credits
5
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Spring
CRES 199F Tutorial
Individual study in areas approved by sponsoring instructors. May not be counted toward upper-division major requirements. Student submits petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.
Credits
2
Instructor
The Staff
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
CRES 200 Black Studies Methods
Exploration of interdisciplinary research methodology—a broader set of scientific beliefs, approaches, inquiries, theories, and analytics—relevant to the study of Black communities. Students read, explore, and engage in particular methods—approaches to data collection and analyses—emphasizing various forms of ethnographic research. Course also examines other approaches to the study of Blackness, such as historical/archival, cultural studies and discursive analyses, and mixed methods.
Credits
5
Instructor
Sophia Azeb
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
Quarter offered
Winter
Explores "subaltern" narratives of diaspora exile in order to interrogate the condition of exile and its interwoven, often contradictory relations to many diasporic formations that endure in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students explore the various origins of diaspora and forms of exile emergent from chattel slavery, colonialism, war, racism, xenophobia, political dissidence, and dispossession, informing an understanding of these broader global machinations, and the experiences of those exiled and in diaspora themselves.
Credits
5
Instructor
Sophia Azeb
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
CRES 202 Ecopoetics and Ecoaesthetics
Considers theories of race, place, gender, and climate through the overlapping burgeoning fields of ecopoetics and ecoaesthetics. Reflects on how the environment, climate crises, and various ecologies inform contemporary experimental poetry, film, music, dance, visual art, performance, and community activism of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Credits
5
Instructor
Fahima Ife
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
CRES 203 Black Studies Theories
Exploration of interdisciplinary research and theoretical frameworks relevant to the study of the global black communities. Examines multiple theoretical approaches to the study of Blackness, drawing from a wide array of ethnographic, historical/archival, cultural studies and discursive analyses. Designed to help students develop a research tool kit, one that is rigorous, flexible, practical, ethical, grounded, and self-reflexive.
Credits
Instructor
Xavier Livermon
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to Graduate Students.
Quarter offered
Fall
CRES 297A Independent Study
Independent study and research under faculty supervision. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
Credits
5
Repeatable for credit
Yes
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
Cross-listed courses that are managed by another department are listed at the bottom.
Cross-listed Courses
ANTH 110G Westside Stories: Race, Place and the California Imaginary
From South Central to La Misión, this course explores the role of race and culture in creating the California Dream. Draws on films, music, and activism as lenses into the complex flows of power that shape our communities.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 110G
General Education Code
IM
ANTH 110Q Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture
From Janet Mock to Young M.A., queerness has become hypervisible in Black popular culture--but at what cost? Using music, television, and social media as central texts, students investigate the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race in public life.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 110Q, FMST 110Q
General Education Code
IM
ANTH 130F Blackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas
What connects Black communities in the Caribbean, the U.S., Latin America, and Canada, and what sets them apart? Examines theories of diaspora, gender and sexuality, slavery, colorism, music, U.S. hegemonies, social movements, and comparative racialization and global anti-blackness (Formerly African Diasporas in the Americas.)
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 130
General Education Code
CC
ANTH 130IG Cultures of India Abroad
An examination of anthropological studies of tribal, rural, and urban cultures of India and a look at changes taking place in India.
Credits
5
General Education Code
ER
ANTH 140 The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections
Explores medical and environmental anthropologies, including how bodies-human and other-are implicated in processes often figured as environmental. Explores how the body and the environment combine and interact to form nexus of political, cultural, and material forces.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 140
General Education Code
PE-E
ANTH 196G Queer Worlds: Sexuality, Intimacy and Power in Contemporary Ethnography
How do we read, write, and recognize the queer body? How is it marked in politics, in intimate spaces, and in the ethnographic text? Drawing on ethnic studies and black queer studies, this seminar engages contemporary anthropological approaches to sexuality.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190G
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; and ANTH 1, ANTH 2, and ANTH 3. Enrollment is restricted to senior anthropology majors.
ARTG 142 Black Aesthetics: Interventions in Digital Media
How do we conceptualize a Black Aesthetic in the realm of digital art and media? How do we re/define Black virtuality when, historically, computer graphics has failed to accurately render Blackness? This course looks at the field of digital media from a technological and cultural perspective, understanding the ways in which anti-Blackness has been embedded in our technology, from photography to video games. Concurrently, course examines the history of the Black Aesthetic as an interventionist art movement, and find ways to intervene in the contemporary digital media landscape.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 142
Instructor
The Staff
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to sophom*ore, junior, and senior art and design: games and playable media, and critical race and ethnic studies majors, and Black studies minors.
General Education Code
PE-T
Introduction to Filipino language and culture. Four skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) in basic Filipino (Tagalog), with readings and discussion of critical contemporary thought (decolonization, gender, social movements) in English. For heritage speakers and second-language learners.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 82
Quarter offered
Spring
FMST 119 Indigenous Feminisms
Explores issues central to Indigenous women's life experiences and Native feminist thought. Students consider the concerns and methodologies of Native feminisms—theories and actions that highlight how settler colonialism is a fundamentally gendered process. Engages in foundational discussions of Native feminisms, settler colonial theory, and feminist methodologies. Course content focuses on communities in settler states currently known as the U.S. and Canada. Covers topics such as reproductive justice, gendered violence, cultural reclamation, and rematriation.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 119
General Education Code
ER
FMST 13 California Indian History
California encompasses the nation's largest Native population and the state's policies create a complex political and legal structure. This course provides a history of early California in the 18th and 19th centuries and a review of the urban Indian experience in the 20th century. The first part sets the historical foundation and traces early California Indian history. The second part shifts to 20th-century urban Indian issues and the contemporary moment for California Indian peoples. Covers topics such as Indian labor exploitation, genocide, termination, relocation, and federal recognition.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 13
General Education Code
ER
FMST 136 Organizing for Water Justice in California
Investigates, imagines, and practices movement toward water justice in California using feminist, Indigenous, and critical race theory. The course includes collaborative projects with environmental justice organizers in the Central Valley, and offers new ways of thinking about water inequity and access through racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and critical theories of place.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 136, ENVS 136
General Education Code
PR-E
FMST 194K Black Diaspora
Seminar focuses on the historical and subjective processes that produce the concept of an African or Black Diaspora. In narrative, film, and cultural studies, themes of slavery, exile, home, identity, alienation, colonialism, politics, and reinvention are explored.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190K
Instructor
Gina Dent
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.
FMST 194L Comparative Settler Colonial Studies
Discusses the characteristics of settler colonialism and the politics of comparison in the study of global settler colonialism. Looks at settler colonial state practice across multiple different sites, including Santa Cruz, as students craft their own research projects. (Formerly offered as Decoloniality, Feminism, and Science Studies.)
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190L
Instructor
Jenny Kelly
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.
FMST 194M Empire and Sexuality
Explores the production of sexualities, sexual identification, and gender differentiation within multiple contexts of colonialism, decolonization, and emerging neo-colonial global formations.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190M
Instructor
Anjali Arondekar
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.
FMST 194O The Politics of Gender and Human Rights
Examines human rights projects and discourses with a focus on the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and rights in the international sphere. Reading important human rights documents and theoretical writings, and addressing particular case studies, emphasizes the tensions between the ideals of the universal and the particular inherent in human rights law, activism, and humanitarianism.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190O
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.
FMST 194Q Queer Diasporas
Queer diaspora emerged from Third World/queer-of-color critique of queer theory and provides a framework for analyzing racializations, genders, and sexualities in colonial, developmental, and modernizing contexts. Readings from anthropology, history, literature, and feminist and cultural studies.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190Q
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.
FMST 194R HIstories of the Carceral State
Surveys how over the course of the 20th century and into the present, the U.S. prison system has metastasized with more than 2 million people locked in cages and many millions more under forms of correctional supervision such as parole, probation, or deportation order, as well as the expansion of a policing apparatus that surveils, stops and frisks, asks for "papers, please," and shoots first. Recently, historians have produced works exploring the origins of this era of racialized police terror, criminalization, mass incarceration, and deportation. Course surveys key works in carceral studies while guiding students through the process of crafting their own original research projects.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190R
Instructor
Marisol LeBron
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): FMST 1, FMST 100, and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.
FMST 194U Touring War and Empire
Senior seminar focusing on tourism, colonialism, and militarism. Considers case studies on tourism in colonial contexts and sites of U.S. empire across multiple geographies as students craft their projects, participate in writing workshops, and present research.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190U
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.
FMST 194V Marxism and Feminism
Explores critically the intersections and crisis points between feminism and Marxism as bodies of thought, theoretical formations, and forms of historical inquiry.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 190V
Instructor
Nick Mitchell
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.
FMST 208 African(a) Genders and Sexualities
Examines a number of classic and new critical texts in the field of African(a) Feminism and Sexuality. Focuses on how African(a) scholars have had to theorize genders and sexualities through an intersectional lens that takes into account questions of decoloniality and freedom. How might we rethink issues of oppression and domination in relationship to race, nation, sex, gender, and sexuality in the global Black world using the tools provided by Africa(a) scholars?
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 208
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
FMST 210 Sex and the Carceral State
The expansion of the state's carceral capacity over the course of the 20th century and into the present has been intimately connected to ideas about sex, gender. This course examines the ways that sex has been a target of the carceral state at the same time that policing and incarceration have shaped our understanding of sexuality and gender. Rather than focusing solely on repression, course also examines how feminists and queer activists have challenged carceral logics and practices and imagined expansive forms of freedom, justice, and safety.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 210
Instructor
Marisol LeBron
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
Quarter offered
Fall
FMST 213 Colonialism, Racial Capitalism and Surveillance
Course asks students to consider surveillance technologies beyond the history of modernity and the rise of bureaucratic governance as well as the framework of liberal understandings of the right to privacy. Instead, students examine the ways colonialism and racial capitalism are structured within surveillance technologies, or violent modes of "seeing" that contribute to the brutal genocide, dehumanization, containment, extraction, and enslavement of bodies and land.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 213
Instructor
Felicity Schaeffer
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
FMST 218 Militarism and Tourism
Positioning tourism and militarism as central sites of inquiry for feminist and ethnic studies, course draws from literature on colonialism and empire to illuminate how tourism functions and how tourists move, in sites of past and present warfare.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 218
Instructor
Jennifer Lynn Kelly
FMST 224 Reproductive Justice
Explores practices of reproductive labor, care and justice, centering global south and transnational perspectives. Readings draw from ethnography alongside critical race, feminist, and queer theory to trouble the concepts of the body, agency, and freedom that have shaped dominant discourses of reproductive politics such as, the "right to choose," along with secular liberal frameworks of justice more broadly. Aims to expand vision of what is possible and necessary in our contemporary moment of heightened contestation over reproductive life and rights.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 224
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
FMST 243 Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Knowledge
Course takes as its central topic the institutional politics of feminist and critical race knowledges in the post-1960s United States university. Considers these fields' complex and contradictory relation to disciplinarity, the university's primary or default mode of arranging and legitimizing knowledge formations.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 243
Instructor
Nicholas Mitchell
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
Quarter offered
Winter
HISC 117 Making the Refugee Century: Non-Citizens and Modernity
Examines the material, discursive, and racialized conditions that have produced refugees in the last century. Also examines the social claims made by refugees, institutional responses to them, and political alternatives to state belonging
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 117
General Education Code
CC
HISC 140A Africa: How to Make a Continent
Introduces the histories of exploration, museum collection, and photography that shape historical and contemporary ideas about race, culture, and place in Africa.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 140A
General Education Code
CC
LING 135 Language and Racialization
Many of us are probably aware that people of different ethnic or racial backgrounds may speak differently, but most of us probably do not know that all varieties of English are equally "grammatical." And while some of us are probably aware of the fact that racial and ethnic categories are "constructed," most of us have probably not considered the ways in which language use figures in the construction of ethnic and/or racial identity. Course introduces a number of racialized linguistic varieties and their intersections with other identity categories (gender, sexuality, socio-economic class), as well as emergent new scholarship on language and racialization.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 135
Instructor
The Staff
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): Ling 50.
General Education Code
ER
PSYC 148 Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Racism
Introduction to and analysis of the social psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, and racism in the United States. Examines how individuals both perpetuate and experience these phenomena, through the lens of race as a system of privilege and disadvantage.
Credits
5
Cross Listed Courses
CRES 148
Instructor
Courtney Bonam
Requirements
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100.