Minor Requirements


Students will take 6 courses (18 credits) from among the courses listed below. At least 2 courses must be taken from Group A, and 2 courses from Group B. Other courses, including First and Second Year Seminars, may be approved by the Program Coordinator:






Group A: Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. (take at least two)


ANTH 115 Anthropology of Race, Class, and Gender

ANTH 315 Ethnic Experience in America

COMM 300 Television, Minorities, and Cultural Diversity

COMM 365 Introduction to Intercultural Communication

CRJU 358 Race, Class, Crime and Justice

HEAL 513 Cultural Diversity in Health and Disease

HIST 461 American Immigration and Ethnicity

INTD 220 Introduction to American Studies

SCWK 270 Social Work Issues of Diversity and Oppression

SCWK 437 Social Work with Multicultural and Multiethnic Families

SOCI 312 Discrimination and Prejudice

SOCI 315 Race and Ethnicity in America

SPED 203 Cultural Diversity Issues in School and Society

SPED 206 Special Education in a Diverse Society



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Group B: Study of Racial and Ethnic Groups in the U.S. (take at least two)


ANTH 206 Native Cultures of North America

ANTH 319 Contemporary Native Americans

ANTH 426 Seminar: New England Ethnic and Regional Communities

ARTH 217 African American Art

ENGL 233 Introduction to African American Novel

ENGL 315 Ethnic American Literature

ENGL 317 African American Literature I

ENGL 318 African American Literature II

HIST 465 African American History

HIST 473 Asian American History

INTD 216 Introduction to Irish-American Studies

INTD/COMM/PSYC 349 Perspective on the Holocaust

INTD 416 Irish-American Seminar

MUSC 166 Survey of American Jazz

MUSC 168 American Popular Music

POLI 389 Racial Politics in the United States

SOCI 225 The Irish-American Experience

SOCI 426 Urban Enclaves



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Last Modified: May 8, 2008