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Feb 28, 2026
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Hill Book
Ethnic Studies B.A.
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The 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 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:
- Become familiar with, apply, and differentiate concepts, theories, and debates central to the interdisciplinary study of race and ethnicity
- 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
- Identify and compare resistance movements and the role they play in liberation, community-building, and nation-building
- Analyze how race and ethnicity intersect with and impact each other and with gender, gender expression, sexuality, ability, religion, and nationality
- Recognize their own assumptions about race, interpersonal racism, and understand how racialized power has impacted their experience
- Analyze how race and ethnicity are implicated in questions of social justice
- Combine academic learning with practical application through SURE, internships, and/or co-curricular programming
- Analyze how race and ethnicity are also managed through desires, pleasures, and world-building
- 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.
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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. - CRE 200 - Topics in Ethnic Studies
- CRE 300 - Advanced Topics in Ethnic Studies
- CRE 475 - Internship in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- CRE 490 - Directed Study in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- ANT 233 - Language and Culture
- ANT 304 - Museum Studies
- ANT 315 - Latin American People and Cultures
- CRM 224 - Juvenile Delinquency
- CRM 226 - Race, Racial Justice, and Equity
- CRM 353 - Ethics, Values, and Diversity in Criminal Justice
- CRM 430 - Seminar: Race, Class, and Gender in the Criminal Justice System
- ECO 206 - United States Economic History
- ENG 366 - Topics in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Topic must be Native American or Asian American Literature)
- ENG 368 - Race, Ethnicity, and American Culture
- ENG 369 - African American Literature
- ENG 390 - Topics in Modernism (WID) (Topic must be From Harlem to Hollywood in the Jazz Age)
- ENV 375 - Topics in Environmental Studies (Topic must be Environmental Racism)
- GND 200 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies (Topic must be Black Women Writers)
- GND 305 - Women of Color Writers
- HIS 209 - Native American History
- HIS 224 - The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- HIS 234 - The Civil Rights Movement 1945-1966
- HIS 243 - Asian American History
- HIS 244 - Colonial Latin America
- HIS 289 - African American History
- HIS 335 - Abolitionist and Proslavery Thought
- PHL 160 - Freedom and the Just Society
- PHL 243 - This is What Feminism Looks Like
- PHL 267 - Race and Racism
- SOC 232 - Social Problems and Social Justice
- SOC 234 - Racial and Ethnic Diversity
- SOC 328 - Community Organizing: People, Power & Change
- SOC 340 - Sociology of Childhood and Child Welfare
- SOC 415 - Seminar: Intersectionalities
- SPA 140 - Introduction to Latino Studies
- SPA 250 - Coexistence and Conflict: Multiculturalism in Early Modern Spain
- SPA 251 - Conflict, Oppression, and Resistance in Hispanic Film
- SPA 252 - Conflict and Resistance: Today’s Multicultural Spain
- SPA 253 - Queer Iberia: Sexualities in Early Modern Spain
- SPA 254 - Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain
- SPA 256 - Race, Racialization, and Ethnocentricity in Spain
- SPA 337 - Multicultural Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy
- SPA 340 - Hispanic Cultures Through Film
- SPA 345 - Seminar in Spanish: Afro-Hispanic Culture of the Caribbean
- SPA 349 - U.S. Hispanic Literature: Voices and Experiences on Migration and Immigration
- SPA 355 - Marginalized Voices from Colonial Latin America
Complete Senior Seminar in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (Capstone)
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