Ethnic Studies Approved Electives

The following list represents Ethnic Studies related courses offered through other Cal Poly departments, and currently on the Ethnic Studies Approved Electives list for the 2022-2026 Catalog.  For full course descriptions, please refer to the Cal Poly Catalog.

Please note, this list is neither static, nor exhaustive, and the Department Chair has the discretion to approve additional courses on an individual basis.

Approved Electives

Select from the following (at least 8 units must be at the 300-400 level): 2, 3, 4, 5
AG/EDES/ENGR/ISLA/SCM/UNIV 350	The Global Environment
AGB 370	World Food Economy
ANT 201	Cultural Anthropology
ANT 325	Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
ANT/ISLA 393	Action-oriented Ethnography
ANT 401	Culture and Health
ANT 415	Native American Cultures
ANT 460	Queer Anthropology
ARCH 320	Topics in Architectural History
ARCH/ES 326	Native American Architecture and Place
ART 317	Asian Art Survey
ART 318	Asian Art Topics: National, Religious, and Intellectual Movements
BUS 302	International and Cross Cultural Management
BUS 407	Managing People in Global Markets
BUS 433	International Finance
BUS 446	International Marketing
CD/EDUC 207	Children's Learning and Development in Educational Settings
CD 424	Children's Development in Diverse Cultures
COMS 316	Intercultural Communication
COMS 319	Critical Cultural Studies and Communication
COMS 421	Gender and Communication
CRP 211	Cities: Form, Culture and Evolution
CRP/ES 215	Planning for and with Multiple Publics
CRP 334	Cities in a Global World
DANC 321	Cultural Influence on Dance in America
ECON/HNRS 303	Economics of Poverty, Discrimination and Immigration
ECON 330	International Trade Theory
EDES 406	Sustainable Environments
ENGL 345	Women Writers of the Twentieth Century
ENGL 346	Ethnic American Literature
ENGL 347	African American Literature
ENGL 349	Gender in Twentieth Century Literature
ENGL 370	World Cinema
ENGL 381	Diversity in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature
ENGL 382	LGBT Literature and Media
ERSC/GEOG 325	Climate and Humanity
ES/HNRS 212	Global Origins of United States Cultures
ES/NR 308	Fire and Society
ES/WGS 345	Queer Ethnic Studies
ES/WGQS 351	Gender, Race, Class, Nation in Global Engineering, Technology & International Development
ES/NR 360	Ethnicity and the Land
ES/NR 406	Indigenous Peoples and International Law and Policy
FSN 250	Food and Nutrition: Culture and Customs
FSN 415	Nutrition Education and Communications
GEOG 150	Human Geography
GEOG 308	Global Geography
GEOG 340	Geography of California
GEOG 370	Geography of Latin America
GEOG 380	Geography of the Caribbean
GEOG 408	Geography of International Development
HIST 206	United States Cultures
HIST 208	Survey of California History
HIST 214	Political Economy of Latin America and the Middle East
HIST 216	Comparative Social Movements
HIST/HNRS 223	World History, 1800 - Present
HIST 308	The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
HIST 310	East Asian Culture and Civilization
HIST 313	Modern Middle East
HIST 314	Middle East
HIST 337	Colonial Latin America
HIST 338	Modern Latin America
HIST 341	Modern Central America
HIST 405	African-American History to 1865
HIST 406	African-American History from 1865
HIST 416	Modern Japan
HIST 417	20th Century China
HIST 418	Chinese Film and History
HIST 419	Modern Southeast Asia
HIST/WGQS 421	The History of Prostitution
HIST 429	Precolonial African History
HIST 430	Modern African History
HIST 433	History of the American West, Southwest Borderlands, and California
HIST/WGQS 434	American Women's History to 1870
HIST/WGQS 435	American Women's History from 1870
HIST 442	Topics and Issues in Latin American History
HIST 443	Topics and Issues in Asian History
HIST 444	Topics and Issues in African History
HIST 459	Imperialism and Postcolonial Studies
HIST/HNRS 207	Freedom and Equality in American History
HLTH 255	Personal Health: A Multicultural Approach
JOUR 219	Multicultural Society and the Mass Media
JOUR 401	Global Communication
KINE 255	Personal Health: A Multicultural Approach
KINE 323	Sport and Gender
MU 121	Introduction to Non-Western Musics
MU 221	Jazz Styles
MU 228	Music of the 60's: War and Peace
MU 325	America's Music
MU 326	Cultural Concepts and Structures in Music
MU 336	Jazz History and Theory
PHIL 320	Asian Philosophy
PHIL 335	Social Ethics
PHIL/WGQS 336	Feminist Ethics, Gender, Sexuality and Society
POLS 225	Introduction to International Relations
POLS 229	Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLS 310	The Politics of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality
POLS 324	International Relations Theory
POLS 325	Global Political Issues
POLS 328	Politics of Developing Areas
POLS 332	World Food Systems
POLS 337	U.S. and China in the Contemporary World
POLS 339	Authoritarian and Democratic Rule
POLS 343	Civil Rights in America
POLS 419	Social Movements and Political Protest
POLS 420	Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy
POLS 426	International Organizations and Law
POLS 427	Politics of the Global Economy
POLS/UNIV 333	World Food Systems
POLS 445	Voting Rights and Representation
POLS/WGQS 457	U.S. Reproductive Politics
POLS 459	The Politics of Poverty
PSY 252	Social Psychology
PSY 260	African American Psychology
PSY 304	Intergroup Dialogues
PSY/WGQS 324	Psychology of Gender
PSY 372	Multicultural Psychology
PSY 465	Cross-Cultural International Psychology
PSY 475	The Social Psychology of Prejudice
RELS 301	Religions of Asia
RELS 302	Abrahamic Religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
RELS 306	Hinduism
RELS 307	Buddhism
RELS/WGS 370	Religion, Gender, and Society
RELS/POLS 380	Religion and Politics in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
SOC 110	Comparative Societies
SOC 218	International Political Economy
SOC 309	The World System and Its Problems
SOC/WGQS 311	Sociology of Genders and Sexualities
SOC 315	Global Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 316	American Ethnic Minorities
SOC 323	Social Stratification
SOC 327	Social Change
SOC 350	Social Organization of Modern Japan
SPAN 233	Introduction to Hispanic Readings
SPAN 305	Significant Works in Spanish
SPAN 340	Chicano/a Authors
SPAN 350	Hispanic Literature in English Translation
SPAN 351	Chicano/Latino Writers in the United States
SPAN 410	Advanced Literature in Spanish
TH 305	Topics in Diversity on the American Stage
TH 390	Global Theatre and Performance
WGS 301	Contemporary Issues in Women's and Gender Studies
WGS 320	Women, Gender and Sexuality in Global Perspective
WGS 450	Feminist Theory
WGS 455	Queer Theory
WLC 312	Humanities in Chicano/a Culture
WLC 315	Critical Issues in Latin American Studies