American Ethnic Studies - Colorado College

Professor: Lanier Seward, Director; Professors: C. Garcia, Levine, Advisers

The American-Ethnic Studies program encourages student interest in and understanding of the historical and current experiences of Chicanos/Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. The program coordinates courses cross-listed from other departments in order to provide critical interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies for the cross-cultural study of these group experiences in the United States. The program also offers a Thematic Minor. Courses offered for American-Ethnic Studies (ES) credit are included in the list below. This list is not exhaustive. Each year there may be the addition of "topics" courses taught by regular or visiting faculty. Students interested in the minor must consult the program director, or one of the advisers.

Colorado College offers a coordinated selection of courses on American-Ethnic Studies as well as numerous courses of related interest. In order to help students interested in American-Ethnic Studies to locate courses of interest, we have cross-listed those departmental courses which deal with Ethnic Studies under the course heading, American-Ethnic Studies. They are listed below.

Course Readings

American-Ethnic Studies Courses
Colorado College offers a co-ordinated selection of courses on American-Ethnic Studies as well as numerous courses of related interest. In order to help students interested in American-Ethnic Studies to locate courses of interest, we have cross-listed those departmental courses which deal with Ethnic Studies under the course heading, American-Ethnic Studies. They are listed below.

Anthropology: 204-Prehistory: North America; 211-The Culture Area: Eskimos, 213-The Southwest, 242-The Anthropology of Food, 243-Hispanic Folklore of the Southwest.

Art History: 180-Native American Art.

Chinese: 250-Asian-American Literature.

Comparative Literature: 200-Protesting Cultures & Cultures of Protest: Afro-American and Russian Folk and Literary Expressions.

Drama: 200-Women and Theatre in Africa., 200 Asian and Asian-American Drama, 200 The Plays of August Wilson.

English: 280-Topics: Asian-American Literature, 385 20th-Century African-American Literature, 393 African American Folklore.

General Studies: 220-Blacks and the Cinema.

History: 200-Asian-American History, 203-Studies in American Social History: Native American History, 246-Slavery and Antislavery Movements to 1860; 244-Black People in the U.S. since the Civil War; 267-History of the Southwest under Spain and Mexico; 268-History of the Southwest since the Mexican War.

Music: 104 World Music, 205-Jazz, 294 Latino Musics of the United States, 393-Music Theory in the Non-Western World.