Ethnic Studies
College of Social Sciences
1859 East-West Road, Room 115
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8086
Fax: (808) 956-9494
E-mail: aoude@hawaii.edu
Faculty
D. T. Alegado, PhD (Chair)--Filipino American experience in the United States/Hawai‘i,
international labor migration
I. G. Aoudé, PhD--Hawai‘i political economy, Middle East politics, social movements in
Hawai‘i and the South Pacific
M. Kelly, MA--land tenure and use history in Hawai‘i, modern Polynesia, contemporary
issues in the Pacific Islands
N. Kent, PhD--political economy in Hawai‘i and the Pacific, American ethnic relations
D. McGregor, PhD--Hawaiian history, South Pacific social movements
G. Y. Mark, Doctorate--Chinese in America, criminal justice
K. Takara, PhD--African American experience
Degree and Certificate Offered: BA in ethnic
studies, Certificate in ethnic studies
The Academic Program
The Department of Ethnic Studies (ES) is an
interdisciplinary program with emphasis on undergraduate education.
Initiated in 1970, ethnic studies combines traditional and contemporary
methodologies with new perspectives on issues of race, ethnicity, and
class. The focus is Hawai‘i with its rich legacy of multiethnic
heritages, but the research, teaching, and service components also
involve the United States as a whole and comparative studies of
societies around the globe.
Ethnic studies provides introductory and advanced
courses on theories and practices of ethnicity, race, and class. The
program also offers courses on the history and experiences of specific
groups, including African Americans and Native Americans. Among groups
in Hawai‘i, Caucasians, Chinese, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Japanese, and
Koreans are subjects of separate courses. There are also courses dealing
with critical topics such as ethnic identity, land tenure, social
movements, and labor history.
Students may earn a BA or the Certificate in Ethnic
Studies. Graduates have gone on to successful work in public service,
social service, business, law, labor organization, education, and other
fields that require sensitivity to people and their backgrounds.
Undergraduate Study
Bachelor’s Degree
Requirements
Students must complete 36 credit hours, including:
• ES 101 and 380
• 12 credit hours on the history and social dynamics of ethnic
groups from ES 221, 305, 306, 330, 331, 332, 333, 335, and 338
• 12 credit hours on the history, theories, and problems of
ethnic groups and ethnicity in the framework of social, economic, and
political change from ES 301, 310, 320, 340, 348, 350, 360, 365, 370,
381, 392, 399, 410, 420, 430, 455, 492, 493, 495
• 6 credit hours of related courses approved by a department
adviser
European Languages and Literature
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Moore 483
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8520
Fax: (808) 956-9536
E-mail: ell-l@hawaii.edu
Web: www.lll.hawaii.edu/dept/ell
Faculty
*A. Dias, PhD (Chair)--modern Spanish literature
*R. J. Ball, PhD--Latin literature, Augustan poetry, teaching
methodology
*V. Bennett, PhD--Russian language and literature, 19th-century Russian
literature, Russian symbolism, modernism and literature of the 1920s
*M. K. Benouis, PhD--16th-century French literature, stylistics,
translation
J. E. Brown, PhD--Russian language and literature, 19th-century Russian
literature and poetics
*W. Burgwinkle, PhD--French medieval literature, literary theory,
Italian, Occitan
*P. M. Chandler, PhD--second language acquisition, coordinator of
elementary Spanish, teaching assistant supervisor
*J. D. Ellsworth, PhD--Greek literature, classical philology, classical
mythology
*M. J. Fassiotto, PhD--18th-century French literature, 19th-century
poetry, coordinator of second-year French
*D. Hilt, PhD--Spanish romanticism, 18th- and 19th-century comparative
literature, exile literature
*K. Hoffmann, PhD--17th-century French literature, critical theory,
coordinator of first-year French, theater
*K. Klingebiel, PhD--French linguistics, history of French, synchronic
French, phonetics, pronunciation, Italian, Occitan
*R. J. Littman, PhD--Greek literature, ancient history, ancient medicine
*J. Logan, PhD--Spanish American literature, women’s studies
M. C. McCarthy, PhD--19th century French literature, oral genres,
Italian
*R. Moody, PhD--applied linguistics, Portuguese and Spanish, psychology
of second language learning, Spanish American literature
*C. Moore, PhD--baroque literature, early German civilization, Dutch
M. Overstreet, PhD--discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, German
language teaching
*J. G. Sang, DrPhil--contemporary German literature, 18th- and
19th-century genres
*W. Scherer, PhD--medieval German lyric, romanticism, evolution of
European consciousness
*N. Schweizer, PhD--18th-century German classicism, Germans in the
Pacific
*J. M. Toyama, PhD--20th-century French novel, criticism, poetry
L. F. Wilson, PhD--medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature
*Graduate Faculty
Degrees and Certificate Offered: BA in
Classics, BA in French, BA in German, BA in Russian, BA in Spanish; MA
in European languages and literature; Certificate in European Languages
The Academic Program
The Department of European Languages and Literature
(ELL) is divided into five language divisions: Classics, French, German,
Russian, and Spanish. Courses of language instruction at the beginning
and intermediate levels are offered in Dutch, French, German, Greek,
Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Advanced courses in
composition, conversation and linguistics are offered in French, German,
Russian and Spanish. Courses in the literatures of France, Francophone
Africa, Germany, Latin America, Italy, Russia, Spain and Wales are
offered regularly in the original language, as are courses in classical
literary texts written in Greek and Latin. Cultural studies courses
designed to acquaint students from other fields with the traditions and
cultures of Europe and the Americas are also available, both in English
and in the target language, and advanced courses in specialized topics
have been designed for students at the graduate level. Such courses
include Hispanic cultural studies; U.S. Latino literature and culture;
French and German film; French, German, Spanish and Latin American
civilization; Russian arts and culture; classical foundations; Europeans
in the Pacific; literary theory; opera; exile literature; and courses on
specific authors and literary movements. At the graduate level,
particular attention is paid to literary analysis and cultural history.
MA programs are offered in Classics, French, German and Spanish. In
addition, BA degrees and certificate programs are offered in Classics,
French, German, Russian, and Spanish. The department promotes language
proficiency and cultural awareness through its sponsorship of student
clubs, films, lectures, scholarships, and Study Abroad programs.
Currently the department, through the Study Abroad Center, sponsors
programs in Mendoza, Argentina; Angers, Annecy and Paris, France;
Florence, Italy; Berlin, Germany; Vladivostok, Russia; and Seville,
Spain. |