Ph.D. Minor, Critical Race and Post Colonial Studies

Use your Graduate Academic Bulletin

Students pursuing a graduate degree in another department with a Ph.D. minor in American Studies should use the University Graduate School Academic Bulletin.

You must complete four courses (minimum of 12 credits). Three of these courses must be drawn from at least two departments, chosen in consultation with the CRPS supervisor, Ranu Samantrai (rsamantr@indiana.edu).

Official requirements for our Ph.D. degrees can be found by clicking on the Bulletin: University Graduate School Academic Bulletin.

Qualifying courses for the CRPS minor

The following courses may qualify for credit for the CRPS minor:

American Studies

  • AMST-G 605 Native American and Indigenous Studies (4 cr.)
  • AMST-G 620 Colloquium in American Studies - Approved Topics:
  • Readings in Comparative Race and Ethnicity (3 cr.)
  • Critical Race Studies (4 cr.)
  • Readings in Comparative Ethnic and Postcolonial Studies (4 cr.)
  • Post Colonial Metropolitan Cinema (3 cr.)
  • AMST-G 751 Seminar in American Studies - Approved Topics:
  • Cultural Politics of Sexuality in the Twentieth Century (4 cr.)
  • Transnational Feminisms and the Politics of Globalization (3 cr.)

Cultural Studies

  • CULS-C 701 Special Topics in Cultural Studies - Approved Topics:
  • Global Feminisms (4 cr.)
  • Transnational Feminisms and the Politics of Globalization (3 cr.)
  • Biopolitics and Postcolonial Discourse (4 cr.)

English

  • ENG-L 635 Readings in American Ethnic Literature and Culture (4 cr.)
  • ENG-L 648 Readings in Comparative Ethnic and Postcolonial Studies (4 cr.)
  • ENG-L 655 American Literature and Culture, 1900-1945 - Approved Topics:
  • The 1940s and American Modernism (4 cr.)
  • ENG-L 663 Introduction to Feminist Critical Studies - Approved Topics:
  • Global Feminisms (4 cr.)
  • ENG-L 680 Special Topics in Literary Study and Theory - Approved Topics:
  • Civilizing Missions: The History and Literature of Anglo-American Imperialism (4 cr.)
  • ENG-L 738 Research Literary History and Theories of History - Approved Topics:
  • The Harlem Renaissance (4 cr.)
  • ENG-L 748 Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Approved Topics:
  • Cool Britannia? (4 cr.)
  • Theories of the Americas (4 cr.)
  • ENG-L 750 Research in Race and Ethnicities - Approved Topics:
  • Beyond the Woman Warrior (on Asian/American Fiction) (4 cr.)
  • 20th/21st Century African American Literature and the Construction of a Research Project (4 cr.)
  • ENG-W 664 Topics in Current Literature - Approved Topics:
  • History and Creativity (on African American Poetry) (4 cr.)
  • Cosmopolitanism and the Contemporary Novel (4 cr.)

Gender Studies

  • GNDR-G 704 Cultural Politics and Twentieth Century Sexuality - Approved Topics:
  • Cultural Politics of Sexuality in the Twentieth Century (4 cr.)
  • GNDR-G 714 Gender, Race and Media (4 cr.)
  • GNDR-G 718 Transnational Feminisms and the Politics of Globalization (3 cr.)

To complete the minor, you must present your research in a forum organized by the CRPS Advisory Committee, a group comprised of CRPS Affiliate Faculty.