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Oct 18, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Hill Book
Ethnic Studies Minor
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The Ethnic Studies Minor 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
Learning Outcomes
Students who complete the minor 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
- Combine academic learning with practical application through SURE, internships, and/or co-curricular programming
The minor in CRE requires the completion of six courses.
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Complete Introduction to Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Complete Five CRE Electives
Two of the electives must be 300- or 400-level. 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 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
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