Ethnic Studies, Certificate

3 credit hours from ES Core:

(ES 301  may be substituted)

• ES 101 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies Credits: 3

6 credit hours from Group 1

6 credit hours from Group 1 on the history and social dynamics of various major ethnic groups in

• ES 221 - Hawaiians Credits: 3
• ES 233 - Filipinos in Diaspora Credits: 3
• ES 305 - African American Experience I Credits: 3
• ES 306 - African American Experience II Credits: 3
• ES 318 - Asian America Credits: 3
• ES 330 - Japanese in Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 331 - Power and Place: Chinatowns Credits: 3
• ES 333 - Filipinos in Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 338 - American Indian Experience Credits: 3
• ES 365 - Pacific/Asian Women in Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 373 - Filipino Americans: History, Culture and Politics Credits: 3
• ES 440 - Contemporary Diasporas in Comparative Perspective Credits: 3
• ES 443 - Filipino Americans: Research Topics Credits: 3
• ES 470 - Latinx Experience in Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 486 - Peoples of Hawaiʻi Credits: 3

6 credit hours from Group 2

6 credit hours from Group 2 on the history, theories and problems of ethnic groups & ethnicity, frameworks for social, economic and political change in

• ES 213 - Race, Class, Gender in Popular Culture Credits: 3
• ES 214 - Introduction to Race and Ethnic Relations Credits: 3
• ES 301 - Ethnic Identity Credits: 3
• ES 308 - Race, Indigeneity, and Environmental Justice Credits: 3
• ES 310 - Ethnicity and Community: Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 320 - Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Credits: 3
• ES 340 - Land Tenure and Use in Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 345 - The Sounds of Race and Inequality Credits: 3
• ES 350 - Economic Change and Hawaiʻi’s People Credits: 3
• ES 360 - Immigration to Hawaiʻi and U.S. Credits: 3
• ES 370 - Literatures of Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 372 - Asian American Literature Credits: 3
• ES 375 - Issues of Diversity in Higher Education Credits: 3
• ES 380 - Fieldwork in Ethnic Studies Credits: V
• ES 381 - Social Movements in Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 390 - Gender and Race in U.S. Society Credits: 3
• ES 391 - Oceanic Gender, Sexual, and Kinship Identities Credits: 3
• ES 392 - Change in the Pacific-Polynesia Credits: 3
• ES 395 - Multiethnic Popular Culture: Hip Hop Credits: 3
• ES 399 - Directed Reading/Research Credits: V
• ES 400 - Ethnic Studies in the Digital World Credits: 3
• ES 410 - Race, Class, and the Law Credits: 3
• ES 418 - Women and Work Credits: 3
• ES 420 - American Ethnic and Race Relations Credits: 3
• ES 422 - Mixed Race Identities, Multiracial Experiences Credits: 3
• ES 425 - Filming Social Change Credits: 3
• ES 450 - Food, Culture, and Empire in U.S. and Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 455B - Topics in Comparative Ethnic Conflict: Middle East Credits: 3
• ES 455C - Topics in Comparative Ethnic Conflict: Hawaiian sovereignty in Pacific context Credits: 3
• ES 456 - Racism and Ethnicity in Hawaiʻi Credits: 3
• ES 457 - Politics of Men and Masculinity in U.S. Culture Credits: 3
• ES 460 - Global Ethnic Conflict Credits: 3
• ES 480 - Qualitative Research Methods in Oceanic Ethnic Studies Credits: 3
• ES 492 - Politics of Multiculturalism Credits: 3
• ES 493 - Oral History: Theory and Practice Credits: 3
• ES 495 - Hawaiʻi’s Labor History Credits: 3
• ES 496 - Special Topics in Ethnic Studies Credits: 3

Notes:

• 9 out of 15 credits must be in upper division courses (300-400 level courses)
• A minimum “C” grade (not “C-“) in all ethnic studies courses