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Bachelor's Degree

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Requirements

Students must complete a total of 36 credit hours from categories A, B, C, D, and E completed with a "B" average and no less than a "C" grade in any course selected from the Ethnic Studies Curriculum.

Categories

A. Introductory Course (3 credits) (Mandatory for all majors):
ES 101 Intro to Ethnic Studies (3)
B. History and social dynamics of the various major ethnic group (12 credits):
ES 221 Hawaiians (3)	ES 305 The African American Experience I (3)
ES 306 The African American Experience II (3)	ES 330 Japanese in Hawaiʻi (3)
ES 331 Chinese in Hawaiʻi(3)	ES 332 Caucasians in Hawaiʻi (3)
ES 333 Filipinos in Hawaiʻi (3)	ES 335 Koreans in Hawaiʻi (3)
ES 338 The Original Americans: Indians (3)	ES 339 South Asian Migrants: Culture and Politics (3)
C. History, theories and problems of ethnic groups and ethnicity on the framework of social, economic and political change (12 credits):
ES 301 Ethnic Identity (3)	ES 310 Ethnicity & Community in Hawaiʻi (3)
ES 320 Hawaiʻi & the Pacific (3)	ES 340 Land Tenure & Use in Hawaiʻi (3)
ES 348 Teaching Ethnic Studies in Higher Education (3)	ES 350 Economic Change & Hawaiʻi's People (3)
ES 360 Immigration to Hawaiʻi (3)	ES 365 Pacific/Asian Women in Hawaiʻi (3) (**WS 360)
ES 370 Ethnic Literature of Hawaiʻi (3) (**ENG 370)	ES 372 Diasporic Literature (3) (**ENG 372)
ES 373 Contemporary Filipino American Experience (3) (**AmSt 373)	ES 381 Social Movements in Hawaiʻi (3)
ES 390 Gender and Race in the U.S. (3) (**WS 390)	ES 392 Change in Pacific --Polynesia (3) (**PACS 392)
ES 399 Directed Reading /Research (3-6)	ES 410 Race, Class, & the Law (3)
ES 418 Women and Work (3) (**WS 418/ SOC 418)	ES 420 American Ethnic Relations: Politics & Economy (3)
ES 440 ES 440: Contemporary African Diaspora and Black Communities Beyond the United States (3)	ES 455 Topics in Comparative Ethnic Conflict (3)
ES 456 Racism and Ethnicity in Hawaiʻi (3) (**SOC 456)	ES 492 Politics of Multiculturalism (3)
ES 493 Oral History: Theory & Practice (3)	ES 495 Hawaiian Labor History (3)
D. Field Work in Ethnic Studies (3-6 credits) (Mandatory for all majors):
ES 380 Field Work in Ethnic Studies (3-6)
E. Any related upper division social science courses or cognate disciplines* (6 credits):
ANTH 486 Peoples of Hawaiʻi (3)	POLS 380 Hawaiʻi Politics (3)
SOCS 456 Racism and Ethnicity in Hawaiʻi (3)

 

*For related courses to apply toward the total number of required credits, they must be approved by an Ethnic Studies undergraduate advisor.

 

**Cross-listed in the Schedule of Courses.

 

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