Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · Cal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area DDescriptionDescription: An advanced survey of key issues, themes, and debates in the field of critical race and ethnic studies. Examines methodological approaches to the study of race and ethnicity in the United States. The course also assesses the relative strengths and weaknesses of key methodological paradigms. Perspectives may include ethnography and oral history, archival research, literary and cultural analysis, and decolonizing methods. This course uses model studies to explore how comparative and relational problems are posed as research projects, how research questions are constructed, and how they employ methodological approaches to frame the project and establish what is at stake in the research. This course enhances students’ disciplinary training by providing an interdisciplinary framework for applying their disciplinary research skills. 54.00 hours lecture. (Letter grade only) 