AES 495

AES 495: Senior Seminar I

This course is the first of the two-part senior capstone seminar for majors in American Ethnic Studies. It is designed so that students may demonstrate their mastery of the field of American Ethnic Studies as well as extend their understanding of its dimensions before they embark on the writing component of the Senior Seminar, AES 496. The course meets twice a week, following the seminar format, requiring students to examine various approaches to academic and national issues of multiculturalism, diversity, and pluralism concerning race and ethnicity in the United States. The goal of the course is to have students develop and defend critiques of various contemporary positions regarding multiculturalism, diversity, pluralism, race, and ethnicity so that they will be graduates who are thoughtful, informed, and articulate about the ways in which the content of the major is represented and discussed in contexts outside of the ethnic studies curriculum.