RES Courses for Concentrations and Electives

Please note that some course numbers indicate topics rather than specific course content, which varies from year to year -- for example some iterations of Engl 388 or Hist 279 may address issues in Race and Ethnic Studies, while others may not.

Regularly offered courses

  • Anth 248 Native Cultures of North America
  • Anth 258 Peoples of the Tibeto-Burman Highlands
  • Anth 259 Andean Culture and Society Since the Inca
  • Anth 328 Medical Anthropology (was "Culture, Health, and Healing")
  • ArtH 208 Arts of the Americas: The Visual Culture of Conquest and Colonialism
  • ArtH 221 American Art and Visual Culture, Colonial to 1900
  • ArtH 222 American Art and Visual Culture of the Twentieth Century
  • Educ 348 Multicultural Education
  • Educ 360/Soc 370 Educational Equality
  • French 316 Contemporary France and the Francophone World
  • Hist 112 Modern Africa
  • Hist 188 Modern Latin America
  • Hist 223 International Relations of the Modern Middle East
  • Hist 247 Early China
  • Hist 250 Colonies to Nation: North America, 1600-1800
  • Hist 268 US Ethnic and Immigration History
  • Hist 287 Colonial Latin America
  • Hist 290/Soc 290 History and Sociology of Rock ’n Roll
  • Hist 297 Building a nation, US 1800-1890
  • Hist 322: History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
  • Hist 344 Modern Chinese History
  • Hist 346 Modern Japanese History
  • Hist 368 Emergence of Modern America
  • Hist 369 US since the Second World War
  • Hist 370 Interrogating Sisterhood: Women and Gender in the US
  • Hist 371 African American History
  • Hist 381 History of Central America
  • Hist 383 Women in Latin America
  • Hist 389 History of Mexico
  • Mus 160 Study of Jazz
  • Phil 225 Critical Race Theory
  • Pol 220 American Political Theory
  • Pol 258 Politics in Africa
  • Pol 259 Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
  • Pol 316 Culture, Ideology, Politics
  • Pol 329 Theories of Empire
  • Pol 334 The U.S.-Mexico Border: Immigration, Development, and Globalization
  • Pol 335 Globalization and Cultural Politics of Development in Latin America
  • Pol 338 North-South Relations
  • Pol 348 International Politics of Ethnic Conflict
  • Pol 359 Gender and International Hierarchy
  • Pol 367 African Political Thought
  • Pol 378 Transnationalism
  • Pol 458 Research Seminar: Racism & Latinos in Washington State
  • Psych 230/Soc 230 Social Psychology
  • Psych 232 Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Intergroup Relations
  • Psych 335 Seminar in Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Psych 336 Social Stigma
  • Rel 222 South Asian Religions II: The Classical Period
  • Rel 260 Religion in America from the Civil War to the Present
  • Rel 259 Religion in America from Columbus to the Civil War
  • Rel 345 Judaism in the US
  • Rel 349 Field Studies in the Religions of the Pacific Northwest
  • Rel 355 Religious Intolerance in the Contemporary U.S.
  • Rel 358 Feminist and Liberation Theologies
  • RFS 240 Rhetorical Explorations: Race, Class, and Gender
  • RFS 250 Persuasion, Agitation and Social Movements
  • RFS 340 Background to African American Protest Rhetoric
  • Soc 230/Psych 230 Social Psychology
  • Soc 267 Race and Ethnic Group Relations
  • Soc 271 Asian Americans in contemporary society
  • Soc 290/Hist 290 History and Sociology of Rock ’n Roll
  • Soc 353 Environmental Justice
  • Soc 369 Class, Status and Power
  • Soc 370/Educ 360 Issues of Educational Equality
  • Span 305-306 Advanced Spanish: Topics in Contemporary Hispanic Culture
  • Span 325 Translation: Healthcare and Language
  • Span 326 Translation: Public Affairs, the Law and Language Change
  • Span 335 Intro to Latin/o American Literatures
  • Span 336 Intro to Hispanic Literatures and Cultures
  • Span 421 Axis of Evil: Law and Literature in Latino America and the Caribbean
  • Span 425 The Rise of Latinos in the U.S.
  • Spanish 447/ WLit 329 Familias y Fronteras: Contemporary Chicana Literature
  • Span 450 Night Chicas: Sex Workers in Contemporary Film from Spain, Mexico, and Brazil
  • Span 451The Theater and Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Span 452 Pedro Almodóvar’s Spain
  • WLit 329/ Span 447 Familias y Fronteras: Contemporary Chicana Literature
  • WLit 395 Contemporary Literary Theory

    • Special Topics Courses, 2008-2009

  • Eng 182B Introduction to African American Literature
  • Eng 388B The Black Urban Experience
  • Hist 378A Native American History
  • Hist 378B Water Power: Water Control, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
  • Hist 380A Culture and Contact in the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
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    • Special Topics Courses, 2007-2008

  • Anth247A Anthropology and Ethnicity in China
  • Engl 181B African American Literature: "I speak for you?"
  • Engl 388B Slavery in the Literary Imagination
  • Hist 259 ST: Social History of Stuff
  • Hist 310B ST: Colonial Moment in African History
  • Hist 380 ST: The Black Atlantic
  • Psyc 347A/JPN 347 ST: Japanese Psychology
  • Soc 293 Asian American Identity
  • Soc 293 Latina/o Experience in the U.S.
  • Span 470/ WLIT 381A ST: Constructing the Caribbean
  • Span 471/WLIT 382/RFS 368 ST: Media and Culture in Latino/Latin America
  • WLIT 382A / RFS 368D Reel Cities: Latin America in Film
  • WLit 388A The Holocaust: Documentations and Representations
  • WLit 390B Yiddish literature: love, death, and afterlives
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    Special Topics Courses, 2006-2007

  • Anth 347 ST: Globalization, Health, and Culture
  • Engl 181B African-New World Shakespeare
  • Engl 387C African American Women Writers
  • Hist 210 ST: Roots of Contemporary Africa
  • Hist 310 ST: Women in Africa
  • Hist 378 ST: Native American History since 1887
  • Hist 379 ST: Readings in European Imperialism
  • Pol 201 ST: International Migration and the Politics of Immigration
  • Pol 401 ST: Race and American Politics
  • Rel 210 Muslim Worlds
  • Rel 311 ST: Sufism
  • Span 467B ST: The Rise of Latinos in the US
  • WLit 201 ST: Jewish Cultural Studies
  • WLit 388A ST: Contemporary Literary Theory
  • WLit 388B ST: Latinos in the US after 9/11
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    Special Topics Courses, 2005-2006

    Other Past RES Courses

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    Last updated 9/20/2008. If you have questions or find errors in this course list please email us.