Teaching Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies: A Major and a Movement
Ethnic Studies began as a community and student movement at San Francisco State University in 1968-69. Today there is a growing demand for Ethnic Studies at all levels of PK-12 education. Ethnic Studies majors who wish to become middle or high school teachers of Social Science must meet Subject Matter Competency through coursework or by passing the CSET before applying to a single subject credential program, completed in three semesters in online and hybrid formats at CSUEB. All teaching fieldwork is in person.
To qualify for Single Subject credential admission, you must have successfully completed undergraduate coursework in the following Social Science domains:
- world history
- US history
- California history
- principles of American democracy
- principles of microeconomics
- principles of macroeconomics
- geography
You must also have a minimum of 45 hours of field experience with groups of students within the last five years, including 15 hours in a public or private school classroom.
Apply to both the Department and University for the coming Summer.
CSUEB Ethnic Studies major Mario Zelaya is currently an OUSD Teacher Resident
Ethnic Studies Teaching Concentration
In the future an Ethnic Studies Teaching concentration and certificate will prepare teachers by integrating ethnic studies content and pedagogy with Single Subject Matter for social science. This Liberal Studies degree provides a pathway to the Multiple Subject Credential.
The core lower division Area F course, LBST/ES 223: Education for Liberation, is currently offered through the Inspire Program for first-year students and separately for Liberal Studies majors.
CSUEB Information sessions: https://www.csueastbay.edu/
Ethnic Studies
Bachelor of Arts
- Ethnic Studies, B.A.: American Indian Studies Concentration
- Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Asian American Studies Concentration
- Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Black Studies Concentration
- Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Chicanx and Latinx Studies Concentration
- Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Comparative Ethnic Studies Concentration
- Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Genders and Sexualities in Communities of Color Concentration
Minors
- American Indian Studies Minor
- Asian American Studies Minor
- Black Studies Minor
- Chicanx and Latinx Studies Minor
- Filipina/x/o American Studies Minor
- Genders and Sexualities in Communities of Color Minor
- Muslim Studies Minor
Courses
Ethnic Studies
- ES 100 - Introduction to Social Justice in Communities of Color
- ES 120 - The People’s History I
- ES 121 - The People’s History II
- ES 200 - Race and Resistance
- ES 222 - Race in the City
- ES 223 - Education For Liberation
- ES 244 - Mixed Race Identities in the US
- ES 247 - Hip Hop Nation
- ES 300W - Writing for Social Justice
- ES 389 - Engaging Communities of Color
- ES 395 - Muslims in the Americas
- ES 396 - Muslim American Activism: Beyond Islamophobia, Orientalism and Empire
- ES 398 - Internship
- ES 490 - Independent Study
- ES 497 - Issues in Ethnic Studies
- ES 498 - Internship
Ethnic Studies: Black Studies
- ES 122 - The Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in Black America
- ES 245 - Black Flix
- ES 301 - Black Feminisms
- ES 340 - Black Literature
- ES 341 - Enslavement and Resistance in the Americas
- ES 342 - James Baldwin
- ES 343 - Black Power
- ES 344 - Malcolm X: Third World Revolutionary
- ES 345 - Jazz Cultures and Communities
- ES 346 - Afrofuturism
- ES 347 - Black Sexualities
Ethnic Studies: American Indian Studies
- ES 302 - Eating The Landscape
- ES 303 - Debates in Contemporary Native America
- ES 304 - American Indian Oral Literature
- ES 305 - Reel Injun: American Indians in Film
- ES 306 - American Indian Liberation
- ES 307 - God is Red: American Indian Worldview
- ES 308 - Cultures of Habitat
- ES 309 - Federal Indian Law and Policy
Ethnic Studies: Asian American Studies
- ES 231 - Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Racialization in U.S. Schools
- ES 232 - Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Popular Culture
- ES 338 - Asian American Politics
- ES 360 - Asian American Intimacies and Families
- ES 361 - Asian Immigrant and Refugee Women in Literature and Cinema
- ES 362 - Concentration Camps, USA
- ES 363 - Asian American & Pacific Islander Film Festival
- ES 364 - Asian American & Pacific Islander Communities
- ES 365 - Asian American and Pacific Islander Environmental Voices
- ES 366 - Pinayism: Filipina Experiences and Activism
- ES 369 - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health, Wellness and Healing
- ES 370 - South Asian American Communities
Ethnic Studies: Genders and Sexualities in Communities of Color
- ES 224 - Filipina/x/o American LGBTQ+ Identities and Experiences
- ES 380 - Queer of Color Histories, Cultures, and Identities
- ES 381 - Racialized Masculinities
- ES 382 - Women of Color Writers: Race, Sex, and Resistance
- ES 384 - Interracial Sex and Marriage
Ethnic Studies: Chicanx and Latinx Studies
- ES 320 - The Chicano/a Movement
- ES 321 - Chicana Feminisms
- ES 322 - Oral Traditions
- ES 323 - Latinx and Latin American Film
- ES 324 - Latin American Immigration
- ES 325 - Mexico Before Spain
- ES 326 - Peoples of Central America
- ES 327 - Decolonize Your Diet
- ES 328 - Afro-Latinx Cultures, Identities, Histories
- ES 329 - Chicanx/Latinx Cultural Production: Activism, Identity, Resistance