GE Area F: Ethnic Studies

Courses

Students with a catalog year prior to 2021-2022 should refer to DARS Degree Audit for information about GE Area D. 

• ES 105 - Introduction to U.S. Ethnic Studies Units: 3
• ES 106 - Introduction to Black Studies Units: 3
• ES 107 - Chican@/Latinx Lives Units: 3
• ES 202 - Hip Hop and the Black Experience Units: 3
• ES 301 - Media and the Politics of Representation Units: 4
• ES 302 - Asian American Studies Units: 3
• ES 303 - From Civil Rights, Black Power to Black Lives Matter Units: 3
• ES 305 - African American Cultural History Units: 3
• ES 308 - Multi-Ethnic Resistance in the U.S. Units: 3
• NAS 104 - Introduction to Native American Studies Units: 3
• NAS 107 - Introduction to California Indian Peoples and Places Units: 3
• NAS 303 - Native American Psychology Units: 3
• NAS 304 - Native Tribes of California Units: 3

GE Notes:

GE requirements cannot be waived and other Cal Poly Humboldt courses cannot be substituted for approved GE courses. To fulfill a particular requirement, a course must be completed during the academic year in which the GE status is designated in the catalog. Courses that meet outcomes of more than one GE area A-F, may only be used to satisfy one of those areas.

Goals

Area F Ethnic Studies courses guide students toward at least three of the following five competencies:

• Analyze and articulate concepts such as race and racism, racialization, ethnicity, equity, ethno-centrism, eurocentrism, white supremacy, self-determination, liberation, decolonization, sovereignty, imperialism, settler colonialism, and anti-racism as analyzed in any one or more of the following: Native American Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latina and Latino American Studies.
• Apply theory and knowledge produced by Native American, African American, Asian American, and/or Latina and Latino American communities to describe the critical events, histories, cultures, intellectual traditions, contributions, lived-experiences and social struggles of those groups with a particular emphasis on agency and group-affirmation.
• Critically analyze the intersection of race and racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability, tribal citizenship, sovereignty, language, and/or age in Native American, African American, Asian American, and/or Latina and Latino American communities. 
• Critically review how struggle, resistance, racial and social justice, solidarity, and liberation, as experienced and enacted by Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and/or Latina and Latino Americans are relevant to current and structural issues such as communal, national, international, and transnational politics as, for example, in immigration, reparations, settler-colonialism, multiculturalism, language policies. 
• Describe and actively engage with anti-racist and anti-colonial issues and the practices and movements in Native American, African American, Asian American and/or Latina and Latino communities and a just and equitable society.

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