{"id":118,"date":"2025-08-22T15:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/gender-race-and-area-studies\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:41:44","slug":"comparative-race-and-ethnic-studies-concentration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/gender-race-and-area-studies\/academics\/comparative-race-and-ethnic-studies-concentration\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, concentration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Transform communities through understanding<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Discover how race and ethnicity shape our world\u2014and learn to reshape it for the better. Through comparative race and ethnic studies, you\u2019ll develop the critical thinking skills to analyze how identity intersects with power, policy, and possibility across cultures and continents. This concentration empowers you to understand complex social dynamics, challenge systemic inequalities, and become an informed advocate for justice in whatever career path you choose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Choose Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a student in the comparative race and ethnic studies concentration<\/strong>, you\u2019ll examine the construction of race and ethnicity, and how they intersect with other structures of identity formation such as class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and legal status. The concentration also allows you to compare U.S. experiences with those of other racially and ethnically diverse countries around the world, both past and present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparative race and ethnic studies is one of seven undergraduate programs affiliated with Clark\u2019s Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies<\/a>, a community of faculty and students who study diverse, disadvantaged, or marginalized societies and populations, with an emphasis on promoting social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While you can combine this concentration with any major, it\u2019s an especially good complement to majors in Asian studies; community, youth, and education studies; English; geography; history; international development and social change; management; political science; sociology; and women\u2019s and gender studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Requirements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Students fulfilling the Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies concentration are required to take a minimum of six courses that carry the CRES attribute, including at least two courses in the humanities and two courses in the social sciences. At least one course must focus on race and ethnicity within the United States, and at least one must have a non-U.S. focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The undergraduate concentration requirements are distributed over three components as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n