[Ais-list] Still Available: Ethnic Studies Courses for AU25

[Moriarty, Megan]

Hello CES Community-



Still looking for a course for autumn? The Center for Ethnic Studies has plenty of space in courses offered this fall. Courses in all three CES programs – American Indian Studies<https://americanindianstudies.osu.edu/program/current-and-future-course-offerings>, Latinx Studies<https://latino-astudies.osu.edu/academic-program/current-and-future-course-offerings>, and Asian American Studies<https://asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/minor/courses#Summer%202024> – will be offered. Plus, you can minor in one of these programs in just 12 credit hours!


Check out our offerings below, or go to the CES website<https://ethnicstudies.osu.edu/courses-0> for the full listing of courses that apply to the minors. Be sure to save your space before freshman orientation starts in late May. We'll see you in August and have a great summer!

2242 | Introduction to Latinx Studies

Course #28278, TR, 2:20-3:40PM, Mendenhall Lab 191, Professor Fernanda Díaz-Basteris (cross-listed with COMPSTD 2242 and SPAN 2242
This course is a brief introduction to Latinx Studies, a field of knowledge production and critical analysis of the historical, sociopolitical, visual, cultural, and economic experiences of the multiethnic, multiracial, and multilingual Latinx population housed in the United States. Different topics will be explored by asking questions like: how has Latinx Studies developed as an academic field in the U.S.? How is Latinx identity performed in the 21st century? What does the use of an ‘x’ in Latinx mean or do for the community? How do histories of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the U.S. impact one’s Latinx identity?
GEN Foundations: Historical and Cultural Studies and Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity
GEL Cultures and Ideas and Diversity: Social Diversity in the US

2323 | Introduction to American Indian Studies
Course #28963, W 12:30-3:15PM, OFF-CAMPUS, Ohio Reformatory for Women, Professor fabian romero (cross-listed with COMPSTD 2323)
This course is grounded in interdisciplinary engagement with Native scholars and the collective goals of Native/Indigenous wellness, political self-determination, and cultural revitalization. This course interrogates the challenges that Native peoples face from ongoing settler colonialism within what is now the United States, without ever losing sight of Native agency and persistence. This course will center Indigenous feminist scholarship and look at Indigeneity transnationally by incorporating Central American scholarship and research. Class meetings will be held at the Ohio Reformatory for Women In Marysville as part of the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP). Note: course availability will be limited to 7 students.
GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies and Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Diversity
GEL Cultures and Ideas and Diversity – Social Diversity in the U.S.

3311 | Latinx Experience Today: Latinx Youth Culture
Course #35719, TR, 9:35-10:55AM, Hagerty Hall 062, Professor Mintzi Martínez-Rivera
This course offers students the opportunity to explore one or multiple aspects of the Latinx experience in the United States in the contemporary world. We will analyze different cultural practices performed by Latinx youth using the concepts of deviancy and creativity as cornerstones. Some of the cultural practices that we will examine are pachuco culture, graffiti, lowriding, salsa, hip-hop, and other cultural manifestations. The different case studies will allow us to study Latinx youth’s active participation in creating, negotiating, and transforming the culture and community where they live as well as help us unpack the different ways in which race, ethnicity, and gender influence the creation and perception of Latinx youth cultural practices.
GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity, & Gender Diversity

5890 | Special Topics in Ethnic Studies: Latinx Ethnographies
Course #35729 (grad) or #35721 (undergrad), TR, 12:45-3:30PM, Hagerty Hall 455, Professor Mintzi Martínez-Rivera
Ethnographic texts can focus on everyday life experiences, or on political, social, economic structures/practices. Ethnographic texts can also vary, from a written text that mixes creative and “scientific” writing, to photography, film, and music. Engaging with canonical and contemporary texts on ethnographic research and writing, students will learn about how the Latinx community has been imagined and created through ethnographic texts. We will discuss the challenges and limitations of ethnographic writing, and what happens when Latinx scholars start writing their own ethnographies/stories. This class can be of interest to students interested in writing, anthropology, sociology, history, folklore, and Ethnic Studies, among other fields - no prerequisites required!




Megan Moriarty

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The Ohio State University

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456 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210


614-247-1650

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