Undergraduate Minors
Borderlands and Ethnic Studies (BEST) offers several multidisciplinary undergraduate minors that critically explore the social, historical, cultural, and legal ways communities experience and navigate social constructs such as race, gender, and sexual orientation. These constructs permeate life, are entrenched in social structures and institutions, and shift and mutate over place and time in ways that reproduce existing power relations.
You can earn a minor in the following areas. Click to view the course requirements.
Course Requirements for the Undergraduate minor:
18 credit total. Courses can be taken in any semester and any sequence (except the capstone must be taken last).| COURSE | TITLE | CREDITS | MIN GRADE | |
| BEST 1015G | Intro to Ethnic Studies | 3 | C | |
| BEST 300 | History of Ethnic Studies | 3 | C | |
| Gender Course | Pick one: | |||
| NATV 4110 CCST 3120V AFST 2140G |
Native American Women Chicana/o Genders & Sexualities Black Women in the African Diaspora |
3 | C | |
| Race, Culture & Education | Pick one: | |||
| NATV 4210 CCST 3130 NATV 4210 BEST 455 |
Native American Education Chicana/o Education Race, Culture Education Borderlands Representations |
3 | C | |
| Elective | Pick one | 3 | C | |
| BEST 400 | Capstone | 3 | C |
Course Requirements for the Undergraduate minor:
18 credits total. Electives must be approved by the student's advisor.| COURSE | TITLE | CREDITS | MIN GRADE | |
| NATV 1150G | Intro to Native American Studies | 3 | C | |
| General | Pick one: | |||
| NATV 2150 NATV 2120 |
Contemporary Native Americans Native American Experience |
3 | C | |
| NATV 3120 | Native American Women | 3 | C | |
| Race, Culture & Education | Pick one: | |||
| NATV 4210 CCST 3130 |
Native American Education Chicana/o Education |
3 | C | |
| Elective | Pick one | 3 | C | |
| Elective | Pick one | 3 | C |
Course Requirements for the Undergraduate minor:
18 credits total. Electives must be approved by the student's advisor.| COURSE | TITLE | CREDITS | MIN GRADE | |
| CCST 2110G | Intro to Chicana/o Studies | 3 | C | |
| CCST 3110 | History of Chicana/o Studies | 3 | C | |
| NATV 4110 CCST 3120V AFST 2140G |
Native American Women Chicana/o Genders & Sexualities Black Women in the African Diaspora |
3 | C | |
| Race, Culture & Education | Pick one: | |||
| NATV 4210 CCST 3130 |
Native American Education Chicana/o Education |
3 | C | |
| Elective | Pick one | 3 | C | |
| Elective | Pick one | 3 | C |
