Anthropology (major: 46 hours)
AND
Ethnic Studies (major hours: 33 / minor hours: 18)
Ethnic Studies helps students critically examine anthropology’s unique relationship to race. Dr. Leith Mullings,
President of the American Anthropological Association, writes, “Anthropology is the discipline that fostered
and nurtured ‘scientific racism’, a worldview that transform[ed] certain perceived differences into genetically
determined inequality and provide[d] a rationale for slavery, colonialism, segregation, eugenics, and terror.”
Later, cultural anthropologists would begin to understand race as a social rather than a biological construct,
meaning that race and racial hierarchies have been created at specific historical moments, frequently linked to
labor exploitation, conquest, nation-building, and racialized definitions of citizenship.
The American Anthropological Association’s Race: Are We So Different initiative is an attempt to address the
racial ideologies that anthropologists helped create. Moreover, the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists has released several position statements that pertain to human remains, the Native American
Graves Protection & Repatriation Act, the biological aspects of race, and more, which reflect the discipline’s
efforts to address anthropology’s problematic beginnings.
Finally, the American Anthropological Association’s Commission on Minority Issues in Anthropology Reports
asserts “the vitality of U.S. anthropology rests on how it responds to the needs of an increasingly culturally
diverse America. Through a revitalized commitment to diversity, anthropology could assume a stronger role in
embracing difference in the people who enter the field as well as the people who become objects of study.”
Prepare yourself for some of these challenges by majoring and/or minoring in Ethnic Studies!
Ethnic Studies
Business Classroom Building, Suite 308
801-581-5206
Academic Advisor: Elizabeth Archuleta
Website: http://ethnic.utah.edu
Facebook: www.facebook.com/uofuethnicstudies
Email: ethnic.studies@umail.utah.edu
Email: elizabeth.archuleta@utah.edu
Sample Courses of Interest
 ETHNC 2500 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 2550 - African American Experiences 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 2560 - Chicana/o Experiences 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 2570 - American Indian Experiences 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 2580 - Asian Pacific American Experiences 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 2590 - Pacific Islander American Experiences 3 Credit(s)
African American Content Group
 ETHNC 2020 - Social and Psychological Aspects of the African American Experience 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4010 - Black Popular Culture 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4700 - African American History Since 1890 3 Credit(s)
American Indian Content Group
 ETHNC 3870 - American Indian Women 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3600 - Native Americans in Modern Society: Implications for Social Policy 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4670 - History of Native American Peoples 3 Credit(s)
Asian Pacific American Content Group
 ETHNC 3480 - Asian American Personality & Mental Health 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3520 - Asian Pacific American Contemporary Issues 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3880 - Asian Pacific American Women 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4015 - Asian Americans and Popular Culture 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4600 - Asian Pacific American History 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 5430 - Asian Pacific American Politics 3 Credit(s)
Chicana/o Content Group
 ETHNC 3860 - La Chicana 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4330 - Chicana/o Culture via Media 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4550 - Latinos in the United States 3 Credit(s)
Ethnic Studies Content Group
 ETHNC 3190 - Racial and Ethnic Politics 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3290 - Ethnic Minority Families 4 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3300 - Peoples of Utah 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3365 - Ethnic Minorities in America 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3400 - Intercultural Communication 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3420 - American Racism 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3450 - Intergroup Relations: Our Prejudices and Stereotypes 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 5290 - Gender and Minorities Across the Lifespan 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 5450 - Communication and Culture 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 5540 - Media and Diversity 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 5560 - Social Psychology of Human Diversity 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 5800 - Theories and Research on Social Inequality 3 Credit(s)