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Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, B.A.


The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Major is offered by the Interdisciplinary Studies  Department in the May School of Arts and Sciences .

Stanley Thangaraj
May Hall 234
508-565-1408
sthangaraj@stonehill.edu

The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies major aims to help students study African American, Asian American, Indigenous, and Latinx peoples; understand race and ethnicity in the United States along transnational and transhistorical lines, centering the study of racialized power and its circuits; and situate forms of resistance and social justice in the present moment. 

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the major will: 

  1. Become familiar with, apply, and differentiate concepts, theories, and debates central to the interdisciplinary study of race and ethnicity 
  2. Examine histories of racial formations and the exercises of racialized power, in the form of white supremacy and settler colonialism, in the U.S. and beyond 
  3. Identify and compare resistance movements and the role they play in liberation, community-building, and nation-building 
  4. Analyze how race and ethnicity intersect with and impact each other and with gender, gender expression, sexuality, ability, religion, and nationality 
  5. Recognize their own assumptions about race, interpersonal racism, and understand how racialized power has impacted their experience 
  6. Analyze how race and ethnicity are implicated in questions of social justice 
  7. Combine academic learning with practical application through SURE, internships, and/or co-curricular programming 
  8. Analyze how race and ethnicity are also managed through desires, pleasures, and world-building 
  9. Combine academic learning with professional development through presentations at the Stonehill undergraduate conference and association conferences 

The major in CRE requires the completion of 10 courses. All courses should be chosen with the help of an advisor to ensure that at least two different ethnic/racialized formations are covered.

Complete Introduction to Critical Race and Ethnic Studies


Complete Eight CRE Electives


Five of the electives must be 300- or 400-level.

All electives should be chosen with the help of an advisor to ensure that at least two different ethnic/racialized formations are covered. All CRE topics courses, internships, and directed studies may be taken twice as long as topics differ. 

Complete Senior Seminar in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (Capstone)