Elective Courses

To complete an Ethnic Studies Major, you must complete the 36 units of Required Courses and 40 units of Advisor-Approved Electives (in addition to your general education requirements, support courses, and open electives).

• The first 20 units of Advisor-Approved Electives must be from courses offered by the Ethnic Studies Department.
  
• The other 20 units of Advisor-Approved Electives can be chosen from Ethnic Studies-related courses offered in other departments.

The following list represents Ethnic Studies-related courses offered through other Cal Poly departments.

NOTE: This list is not exhaustive, nor is it official, and changes year to year, quarter to quarter. All elective courses used to fulfill the major in Ethnic Studies must be approved by an Ethnic Studies advisor. Please contact the Ethnic Studies Department for more information.

(See the University Catalog for full course descriptions.)

AGB 401 Managing Cultural Diversity in Agricultural Labor Relations (4)

ANT 201 Cultural Anthropology (4) GE D3
ANT 325 Precolumbian Mesoamerica (4) GE D5
ANT 415 Native American Cultures (4) USCP

DANC 321 Cultural Influences of Dance in America (4) GE C4

EDUC 468 Teaching Heterogeneous Classrooms for Secondary Schools (4)
EDUC 556 Ethnic Counseling (Graduate Course) (4)
EDUC 588 Education, Culture, and Learning (Graduate Course) (4)

ENGL 345 Women Writers of the Twentieth Century (4) GE C4 USCP
ENGL 346 Ethnic American Literature (4) GE C4 USCP
ENGL 347 African American Literature (4) GE C4
ENGL 349 Gender in Twentieth Century Literature (4) GE C4 USCP
ENGL 381 Diversity in Twentieth Century American Literature (4) GE C4 USCP

GEOG 300 Geography of the United States (4) GE D5

HIST 206 American Cultures: Consensus and Conflict (4) GE D1 USCP
HIST 207 Freedom and Equality in American History (4) GE D1 USCP
HIST 308 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (4) GE D5
HIST 309 Cultures of West Africa and African Diaspora (4) GE D5
HIST 314 The Middle East (4)
HIST 332 African American History to 1865 (4)
HIST 333 African American History from 1865 (4) USCP
HIST 339 Food and Nutrition: Customs and Culture (4) GE D4 USCP
HIST 434 American Women's History to 1870 (4)
HIST 435 American Women's History from 1870 (4) USCP

HUM 312 Humanities in Chicano/a Culture (4) GE C4 USCP

JOUR 290 Multicultural Journalism (4) USCP

KINE 255 Personal Health: Multicultural Approach (4) USCP

MU 325 America's Music (4) USCP

POLS 310 Politics of Ethnicity and Gender (4)
POLS 343 Civil Rights in America (4) USCP
POLS 419 Social Movements and Political Protest (4)

SCOM 416 Intercultural Communications (4) USCP

SOC 315 Global Race and Ethnic Relations (4) GE D5
SOC 316 American Ethnic Minorities (4) USCP
SOC 323 Social Stratification (4)

SPAN 340 Chicano/a Authors (4) USCP
SPAN 351 Latino/a Writers in the U.S. (4) GE C4 USCP

TH 320 Black Theatre (4) GE C4 USCP

WS 301 Introduction to Women's Studies (4) USCP
WS 311 Women in Cross Cultural Perspective (4) GE D5
WS 450 Feminist Theory (4) USCP