Fall 2024 courses for the RIDGS graduate minor

These Fall 2024 courses are eligible for RIDGS graduate minor fulfillment. Students must consult with DGS or GPC in order to make a GPAS exception.

Proseminar requirement (3 cr)

• AFRO 5101: Seminar: Introduction to Africa and the African Diaspora. Instructor: Rose Brewer, meets M 5:00-7:30pm
• AFRO 8910: Topics in Studies of Africa and the African Diaspora - Race and Temporality: Ontological Time and the Work of Race. Instructor: Rahsaan Mahadeo, meets T 3:00-5:30pm
• AMST 8201: Historical Foundations of American Studies. Instructor: Aaron Alvarado, meets T 2:30-5:00pm
• CHIC 5920/GWSS 5190: Topics in Chicana(o) Studies - Chicana, Black & Indigenous Feminist Approaches to Climate Justice. Instructor:  Jessica Lopez Lyman, meets W 2:30-4:30pm
• GWSS 8108: Genealogies of Feminist Theory. Instructor: Sima Shakhsari, meets Th 2:30-5:00pm. *Note: Two-semester seminar. prereq: Feminist studies PhD or grad minor student or instr consent
• GWSS 8490: Seminar: Transnational, Postcolonial, Diaspora. Instructor:  Rachmi Diyah Larasati, meets T 1:00-3:30pm

Interdisciplinary methodologies requirement (3 cr)

• DSSC 8111: Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing in Development Studies and Social Change. Instructor: Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, meets F 9:15-11:45am

Electives (6 cr total needed; courses listed are 3 cr unless otherwise noted)

• AFRO 5015/ANTH 5037: Food Sovereignty in Africa. Instructor: Bula Wayessa, meets T & Th 9:45-11:00am
• AMIN/ANTH 5602: Archaeology and Native Americans. Instructor: Kat Hayes, meets T & Th 11:15am-12:30pm
• AMST 8920: Topics in American Studies - Race and Relationality. Instructor: Elliott Powell, meets M 1:30-3:30pm.
• ANTH 5980: Topics in Anthropology - Disability Worlds. Instructor: Erin Durban, online, asynchronous
• GWSS 5503: Queering Theory. Instructor: Sima Shakhsari, meets Th 11:30am-1:30pm.
  *prereq: Any GWSS or GLBT course
• HIST 5891: American Indian and Indigenous Studies Workshop. Instructor: Jean O'Brien, meets F 3:30-5:30pm.
• HSPH 8001: Who Owns the Past? Common Concerns and Big Questions in Heritage and Public History. Instructors: Kat Hayes and Amber Annis, meets W 3:30-6:00pm.
• HIST 8960: Topics in History - Sawyer- Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives.  Instructor: Yalile Suriel, meets Th 1:30-3:00pm. *Note: meets every other week, two-semester course, 1.5 credits per semester
• LAW 6909: Abolition and the Carceral State. Instructor: Susanna Blumenthal, meets T 1:25-3:25pm
• DES 4401W: Racism Untaught: Revealing & Unlearning Racialized Design. Instructor: Terresa Moses, meets T & Th 3:00 - 4:15pm *Note - must be taken at graduate level
• PSY 5960: Topics in Psychology - Socio-Cultural Psychology. Instructor: Drexler James, meets M & W 9:45-11:00am
• CI 5464: The Politics of Literacy and Race in Schools. Instructor: Timothy Lensmire, meets M 4:40-7:20pm.
• CI 8159: CaT Colloquium; Curriculum, Empire, and U.S. Schooling. Instructor: Vichet Chhuon, meets W 1:25-4:05pm.
• CI 5609/CI 8609: Transnational and Multilingual Literacies. Instructor: Blanca Caldas Chumbes, meets Th 4:40-7:20pm.

• COMM 8611: Survey of Rhetorical Theory, Instructor: Atilla Hallsby, meets T 4:00-6:30pm.