Art History & Visual Studies
(major hours: 36)
AND
Ethnic Studies (major hours: 33 / minor hours: 18)
Ethnic Studies courses contribute to a critical analysis of disciplines in the Fine Arts,
including Art History & Visual Studies. Until the 1960s there were no courses reflecting
the art and culture of racialized groups. Ethnic Studies provides a critical foundation for
students, because its courses provide a social, historical, and political context for the
art and media that racialized groups create to reflect their lived experiences.
Art History majors can enhance their training in visual analysis, critical reasoning, and effective
communication with Ethnic Studies courses. Our program provides the practitioner, the art historian,
and the art educator a wider understanding of the social, historical, and political contexts of
multicultural movements in the arts and the global influences on modern art.
Both Art History & Visual Studies as well as the Ethnic Studies Program are interdisciplinary in their
approach, and together, provide a well rounded education that prepare graduates for work in the
public, private, or nonprofit sectors or for ongoing work in graduate school or higher education.
Organizations such as the Association for Critical Race Art History recognize the relationship between
race and art and examine how race in art and visual culture expose unequal power relations.
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)
 ETHNC 4330 - Chicana/o Culture via Media 3 Credit(s)
African American Content Group
 ETHNC 3350 - Hip-Hop & Social Justice Education 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3760 - African American Literature I 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3761 - African American Literature II 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4010 - Black Popular Culture 3 Credit(s)
American Indian Content Group
 ETHNC 3740 - American Indian Lit
 ETHNC 3870 - American Indian Women 3 Credit(s)
Asian Pacific American Content Group
 ETHNC 3520 - Asian Pacific American Contemporary Issues 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3750 - Asian American Literature 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3880 - Asian Pacific American Women 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4015 - Asian Americans and Popular Culture 3 Credit(s)
Chicana/o Content Group
 ETHNC 3770 - Chicana/o Literature 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3860 - La Chicana 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4330 - Chicana/o Culture via Media 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 4560 - Chicano Civil Rights Movement 3 Credit(s)
Ethnic Studies Content Group
 ETHNC 3100 - US Third World Feminisms 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 3190 - Racial and Ethnic Politics 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 5450 - Communication and Culture 3 Credit(s)
 ETHNC 5540 - Media and Diversity 3 Credit(s)