Critical Diversity Studies Major Welcome to the Critical Diversity Studies Major, or for short, CDS. I am Professor Evelyn Rodriguez, current Director of the Program. Our University Mission calls us to change the world. CDS embraces this mission fully, and believes that you have to wholly understand society in order to effectively change it. So, while traditional majors offer students one set of tools for becoming part of the solution to societys current struggles, CDS has assembled the best teachers and classes across the university to offer our majors a diverse and rich toolbox to help you gain a better understanding of society and social issues, such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and xenophobia. This is to fully equip CDS Majors to intelligently and creatively enhance what is working in our communities, while addressing what needs to be repaired as students, and in a variety of careers ? for example, human resources, education, social work, nonprofit and for-profit management, policy research and implementation, and civic administration. CDS has also partnered with USFês Dual Degree Teaching Program, Law School, and Masters in Behavioral Health, to offer CDS majors interested in careers in education, law, and health fast-tracks into those USF graduate programs. Our dynamic full-time faculty and array of exciting courses are here to help you complete your CDS major. Now, I will introduce you to the outlines of the major and the courses which you should enroll in for the upcoming semester. First, a reminder: Every student typically registers for 16-18 credits per semester. This means four, 4-credit courses and perhaps 1 or 2 credits of extracurricular activities. Stay on Track! Taking at least 16 credits each semester means graduating in four years. This coming semester, one or two of your courses should be in CDS, and the remaining courses should either fulfill your core requirements or your language requirements. We will offer a full explanation of your major requirements when you arrive on campus. In short, the Major is 40 units, specifically 10 courses, 5 of which are Foundation courses and the other 5 courses taken within a concentration that enables a student to develop a specific expertise. The required foundation courses are CDS History, Intersectional Theory, Research Practices, Expressions of Diversity, and a Capstone seminar. And there are 5 concentrations or tracks you can choose to specialize in: African American Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies, Chican@-Latin@ Studies, Gender and Sexualities Studies, and Comparative Diversity Studies. Most of the concentrations or tracks are self-explanatory. The last one, Comparative Diversity Studies, is an overarching or umbrella track in which a student takes one course from each of the four other tracks plus one additional course in any of the tracks. For our incoming students this upcoming semester, we are offering several courses in each of the 5 tracks. Whether you are an incoming First-Year Student or a Transfer Student, you should take at least one course in the track you wish to specialize in. For example, if you think you would like to declare a concentration in African American Studies, you might take either one of these classes: ENGL 203 African Amer Lit Survey I ENGL 204 African Amer Lit Survey II CDS 305 From Slavery to Obama HIST 125 African American History HIST 351 Slavery in US Hist & Culture PHIL 231 African Amer Philosophy POLS 324 African American Politics PSYC 316* African Amer Psychology SOC 238 Afri-Ameri Culture & Society For the Asian Pacific American Studies track: CHIN 355 Chinese Lit in Translation COMS 315* Asian Amer Culture & Comm ENGL 211 Asian Amer Lit Survey HIST 126 Asian Amer History POLS 390 Filipino Pols/Justice PSYC 317* Asian Amer Psychology SOC 228 Asian/Pac Islnder US Soc SOC 240 People of Mixed Descent THRS 355 Philip Theol & Revolutions YPSP 107 Filipina Lit YPSP 222 Philippine Boxing & Culture YPSP 312 Knowledge Activism YPSP 316 Filipino Amer Arts YPSP 325 Filipino Culture & Soc For the Chican@-Latin@ Studies track: ART 209 Art of the Americas ENGL 212 Intro to Chicano/a Lit Survey HIST 379 Latinos in the US LAS 218 Latinx/Chicanx Cult & Soc, LAS 305 Latin@ Amer Perf & Culture LAS 379 Latino/as in the US, MS 380 Latin@s in the US Media POLS 325 Latino Politics in the US PSYC 306* Latinx Psychology SOC 218 Latinx/Chicanx Cult & Soc SPAN 206* Intersecciones Culturales SPAN 221* Span for Bilingual Students I SPAN 222* Espa?ol para Bilingues II SPAN 225* El Espa? ol en SF, CA y EEUU SPAN 272 Sexualidad en la Lit Chicana, SPAN 301* Puentes con Comunidad Latina, SPAN 375* Lit. y Arte Fronteriza THRS 305 Feminist Theo/Third World THRS 345 Religion of US Latinos For the Gender and Sexualities track: ANTH 215 Women's Lives/Culture ART 206 Women & Art, BIOL 330* Female Biology COMS 337* Rhet of Sex, Gender & Sexuality ENGL 208 Survey of Women's Lit I ENGL 209 Survey of Women's Lit II ENGL 230 Lit, Gender & Sexualities GERM 350 Parlis Berlin HIST 127 Women in US History HIST 270 Sex&TransgressionlslWrld HIST 360 Amer. Women & Pol Activism INTD 240 Honoring our LGBTZQIA Elders MS 319* LGBTQ+Cinema MS 335 Feminist Thought MS 405* Gender & the Media MS 414* Undoing Gender PHIL 335 Feminist Thought PSYC 331* Psychology of Sexuality PSYC 335* Psychology of Gender SOC 229 Diversity/Amer Families SOC 233 Gender, Dev & Globalization SOC 260 Sociology of Gender SOC 345 Feminism and the Body SOC 347 Sex and Sexualities THRS 125 Soc Justice, Activism & Jews THRS 131 Queering Religion (CEL) THRS 240 Gender, Poverty & Justice THRS 262 Homosexuality & the Bible THRS 310 Christian Sacraments For the Comparative Diversity Studies track: Option I: choose classes from each track Option II: choose from: BUS 362* Multicultural Marketing CDS 195 First Year Seminar POLS 320 Urban Politics POLS 336 Race, Equality & the Law PSYC 305* Multicultural Psychology PSYC 307 Cross-Cultural Psychology SOC 226 Social Problems SOC 229 Diversity/Amer Families SOC 233 Gender, Dev & Globalization SOC 240 People of Mixed Descent SOC 302* Global Inequalities/Soc Justice SOC 304* US Inequalities/Soc Justice SOC 323 Urban Education SOC 325 Critical Approach to Race/Ethn SOC 338 Sociology of Education, THTR 115 Hop Hop Theater INTD 202 Leadership for Civic Engagement INTD 399 Research/Advocacy for Justice And, if you would like to take a Foundational Course: CDS 100 Ideal of Citizenship CDS 200* Intersectional Theory CDS 201* Practicing CDS CDS 301 or 303 Narratives of US America or Performance and Cultural Resistance CDS 400* Capstone * has a pre-requisite To fill out your schedule, I strongly recommend that you register for a Composition course, offered through the Rhetoric and Language Department. Developing good writing and speaking skills is essential to your success in all the classes you will take at USF, and is a requirement even for transfer students who have taken courses in writing before. You should know which class to register for. If you do not, please review the chapter on Rhetoric and Composition. You should also consider enrolling in a First-Year Seminar that counts towards the CDS major. All First-Year Seminars are listed as FYS 195, meet one of the Core requirements, and are only available to you in your first semester at USF. Enrollments in these seminars are limited to 16. Each is designed around a special topic, and will provide not only a great introduction to an area of study, but also typically bring you off campus to visit important historical sites or to participate in cultural or literary or scientific events. If after all this you have a fourth course still available, consider beginning or continuing to learn a foreign language. To graduate you need to have completed the equivalent of a third semester course in a language. If you already have some familiarity with a language, you should take the foreign language placement test. It will indicate whether you should start at the first, second, or third semester of a language. Once you have selected your classes, your schedule should resemble something like this First Year Students: 1. Major Foundation Course 2. Rhetoric and Composition Course* or core course 3. Foreign Language* or Core Course 4. Core Course or First Year Seminar * depending on your placement If you are a transfer student, you may have completed some of these courses already. It is important for us to review your degree evaluation together to determine which courses you need to complete. All incoming CDS students are strongly encouraged to contact me directly to discuss your schedule. Our Directors are consistently available over email, and will be contacting students who have registered as CDS Majors as soon as we are notified of your enrollment. cds@usfca.edu 415.422.5707 We look forward to meeting you, as do the rest of our faculty and your soon-to-be fellow students. Welcome to USF!