ETHS 307 Learning From Communities:
This course uses one to several field trips as core learning experiences. Academic insights are integrated with direct experiences. All field trips are contextualized to be experiential learning rather than recreational cultural tourism. The course revolves around learning from community interactions. Topics will change from semester to semester. If more than one topics course is taken in fulfillment of the major, they must be different course titles. Some offerings of the class may require the student to pay for parking and additional fees or use one's own means of transportation.
Note: Formerly known as ETHS 202.
Special information
2-4 Undergraduate credits
Effective May 7, 2025 to present
Meets graduation requirements for
Learning outcomes
General
- Engage with familiar and unfamiliar settings so that one has a deeper understanding of the range of experiences and concerns within an ethno-racial community or sub-community.
- Apply interdisciplinary work in Ethnic Studies to understand dimensions of an ethno-racial community¿s experience or comparative complexities among multiple ethno-racial communities.
- Articulate how individual and group choices are enacted within societal restrictions.
- Reflect on the moments of deep learning about race, racism, structural oppression, intersectionality, ethnicity, or culture that occurred during the field study.
- Explain to others one¿s reflections using in-depth description and scholarly work.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum
Goal 7A: Human Diversity, Race, Power, and Justice in the United States
- Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States' history and culture.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.
- Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.
- Describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.
- Demonstrate communication skills necessary for living and working effectively in a society with great population diversity.
Goal 9: Ethical and Civic Responsibility
- Examine, articulate, and apply their own ethical views.
- Understand and apply core concepts (e.g. politics, rights and obligations, justice, liberty) to specific issues.
- Analyze and reflect on the ethical dimensions of legal, social, and scientific issues.
- Recognize the diversity of political motivations and interests of others.
- Identify ways to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Summer 2026
| Section | Title | Instructor | books | eservices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Learning From Communities: Community Connections | Staff, Staff | Books for ETHS-307-01 Summer 2026 | Course details for ETHS-307-01 Summer 2026 |