Seminar in Black & Latino Studies

Catalog description

This capstone course offers advanced approaches to Black and Latino Studies. While course themes vary by instructor, students will practice interdisciplinary analysis, communication, and research methods. Skills may include archival work, literary and cultural theory, economics, data and other forms of analysis that offer both qualitative and quantitative approaches to problem solving. Coursework includes intersectional approaches to race and ethnic studies that foster complex,creative, and critical thinking about race and racism, power, sex and gender equality, as well as class, nation, colonialism, religions, cultural identities, andfreedom. (Students will receive credit for only one of the following courses: BLS 4900; HSP 4900; or LTS 4900. The F-replacement policy may be applied only if the same topic is repeated.)