AP Credit: CRES does not accept AP credit
For CRES majors and minors: Students interested in majoring or minoring in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies should begin with one of our designated Gateways courses in their first year. Designated Gateways courses can be found in Montserrat as well as among several 100- or 200-level courses in many different departments at the College. A list of Gateways courses can be found on the CRES website or by contacting the department chair.
Courses
HIST 196
African Colonial Lives
Common Area: Cross-Cultural or Historical Studies
This course analyzes the colonial experience of African people in sub-Saharan Africa, from the late 19th century and throughout the twentieth century. European colonialism in Africa transformed customs, traditions, and social organizations, introduced new boundaries between peoples and erased others through the institutionalization of racism and the creation of new ethnicities. The history, theory, and practice of colonialism (and neocolonialism) are presented in this course through historical documents, scholarly writing, literature, and film. The course also explores the long-term economic, psychological, and cultural effects and legacies of colonialism on the colonized.
HIST 198
Modern Africa Since 1800
Common Area: Cross-Cultural or Historical Studies
A survey of Africa's complex colonial past, examining dominant ideas about colonial Africa and Africans' experiences during colonialism, including important historical debates on Africa's colonial past and the legacy of colonialism; pre-colonial Africa's place in the global world; resistance and response to the imposition and entrenchment of colonialism; and the nature of colonial rule as revealed in economic (under) development, ethnicity and conflict, and the environment.
POLS 110
Race and Ethnicity Politics
Common Area: Social Science
This course will cover a broad range of topics that examines the ways in which race intersects with the American political system including but not limited to: the social and legal construction of race, the effects of political redistricting, voting right among minority groups, immigration, the factors that influence voter mobilization among minority groups, the intersection of race and gender, race in the context of public policy, as well as race in the context of media and news coverage.