Ethnic and Women’s Studies

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Sandy Dixon, Interim Chair

The Ethnic and Women’s Studies Department offers an educational program designed to equip students with the knowledge, analytical skills, and experience necessary to effectively live and work in today’s diverse society.

History, culture, and contemporary issues are explored and analyzed through the intersecting perspectives of ethnicity, race, class and gender. The curriculum combines an interdisciplinary knowledge of our socio-cultural world with opportunities in service learning, internships, and community-based research.

EWS offers a major in Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies (GEMS) with two subplans. The first subplan, BA in GEMS, allows for emphases in African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Native American Studies, or Women’s Studies. The second subplan, BA in GEMS Pre-Credential, prepares students for the preliminary Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential. The department also offers minors in African American Studies, Native American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Women’s Studies, and an interdisciplinary minor in Multicultural Leadership.

Courses are open to all students in the university. Enrollment is encouraged for those who are seriously concerned about diversity and the quality of life in the 21st-century. Fields in which such concerns can find direct application are teaching, urban planning, social services, politics, counseling, human resources, recreation, law, the ministry, and others that have a direct bearing on particular ethnic and gender groups.

A service learning requirement allows students an applied experience prior to graduation. Students have the choice of  enrolling in EWS 280  or service learning designated courses.

Programs

• Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies, B.A. - GEMS Subplan/Option: 180 units
• Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies, B.A. - Pre-Credential Subplan/Option: 180 units

• African American Studies Minor
• Asian American Studies Minor
• Chicano/Latino Studies Minor
• Multicultural Leadership Studies Interdisciplinary Minor
• Native American Minor
• Women’s Studies Minor

Courses

• EWS 101 - The University (4)
• EWS 102/102A - Engaged Education: Education and Beyond (2/2)
• EWS 140 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies (4)
• EWS 145 - Introduction to the Study of Women and Men in Society (4)
• EWS 200 - Special Study for Lower Division Students (2)
• EWS 201 - African American Experience (4)
• EWS 202 - Chicano/Latino Experience (4)
• EWS 203 - Native American Experience (4)
• EWS 204 - Asian American Experience (4)
• EWS 210 - Interactive Dynamics of Ethnicity and Gender (4)
• EWS 280 - Community Service Learning (4)
• EWS 290 - Multicultural Leadership (4)
• EWS 299/299A/299L - Special Topics for Lower Division Students (4)
• EWS 301 - Ethnic Identity (4)
• EWS 304 - Asian American Communities: Comparative Analysis (4)
• EWS 330 - Ethnicity and Family Life (4)
• EWS 345 - Women, Ethnicity and Work (4)
• EWS 350 - Ethnic Immigration (4)
• EWS 360 - Cultures of Childhood (4)
• EWS 370 - Women and Law (4)
• EWS 375 - Gender, Ethnicity and Film (4)
• EWS 380 - Women in Global Perspective (4)
• EWS 390 - Ethnic Women (4)
• EWS 395 - Methods in Ethnic and Women’s Studies (4)
• EWS 400 - Special Study for Upper Division Students (2)
• EWS 401 - African American Contemporary Issues (4)
• EWS 402 - Chicano/Latino Contemporary Issues (4)
• EWS 403 - Native American Contemporary Issues (4)
• EWS 404 - Asian American Contemporary Issues (4)
• EWS 407 - Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities (4)
• EWS 410 - Ethnicity and the Arts (4)
• EWS 411 - Diversity, Education, and the Arts (4)
• EWS 420 - Gender, Ethnicity, and Class (4)
• EWS 425 - Gender, Identity and Technology (4)
• EWS 430 - Ethnic Thought and Values (4)
• EWS 431 - Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion (4)
• EWS 440 - Feminist Theory and Practice (4)
• EWS 441 - Women, Health, and Social Justice (4)
• EWS 445 - Multiethnic Heritage of California (4)
• EWS 450 - Multiracial and Hybrid Identities (4)
• EWS 451 - Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora (4)
• EWS 452 - Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality (4)
• EWS 461 - Capstone Senior Project (2)
• EWS 462 - Capstone Senior Project (2)
• EWS 475 - Community and Culture (4)
• EWS 499/499A/499L - Special Topics for Upper Division Students (1-4/1-4/1-4)

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