❄️ WINTER 2026 ❄️

Go to the LSW website for a list of faculty offering courses during the 2025-26 academic year. 

Here are some of our classes where room is still available (please share out widely) 

TDTR 115 - Movement and Dance Analysis with Holly Johnston M/W 12-1:20

TDDM 100 - Dancemaking 1 with Tonnie Sammartano (it’s Tonnie but it says staff) MW 10-11:50am

TDMV 120 - Intermediate Contemporary - two sections are being offered this quarter- 

M/W with Hentyle Yapp (he only teaches this class once a year!) and 

T/Th with Sadie Weinberg - you can take int contemporary 4 days a week! 

TDMV 123 - contact improvisation with Marcos Duran - T/Th 10-11:50am

TDMV 142 Dances of the Latine Diaspora- there are 3 sections of these that have lots of space! These are mixed level clases that are appropriate for beginners as well as more intermediate dancers - Jade Power Sotomayor is teaching Bomba (she only offers this course once a year and it’s with live music - not to be missed!),  Juan Carlos Blanco will be teaching Afro-Cuban, dances of the Orishas with live music and Tony Caligagan will be teaching Latin Social Partner Dances (Salsa, Bachata & Chachachá to name a few)

Also students who are interested in pitching ideas for New Directions (pitches happen at the end of the quarter) are required to take dancing making (any TDDM class)  and Looking at Dance - which is only offered this quarter with Dr.grace jun - TDHD 20 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm

🍂 FALL 2024 🍂 

☀️SUMMER 2025☀️

ENVR 102 must be petitioned to apply toward an Ethnic Studies major or minor

SOCI 145 must be petitioned to apply toward an Ethnic Studies major or minor

TDGE 40 - Dance and Social Movement(s)

Summer Session II, TTh 9-11:50

How does dance shape our world, from social gatherings to political protest? This course explores movement as a form of community-building, resistance, art, and remembrance. We'll examine both traditional and unexpected forms of dance-including marches, flash mobs, and internet challenges-alongside historical and contemporary examples like medieval dance manias, Indigenous round dances, Puerto Rican perreo, and Black Lives Matter dance activism. Together, we'll analyze how dance expresses joy, discipline, and disruption.

EDS 113 must be petitioned to apply toward an Ethnic Studies major or minor

🌺SPRING 2025🌺

TDDE 131 is not applicable to Ethnic Studies, but it seems like a great and unique opportunity. 

TDDE 131 The Road to Production

Spring Quarter – Tuesday/Thursday – 3:30pm-4:50pm

8th College – Podemos 1A20

For more information contact rbrill@ucsd.edu

❄️ WINTER 2025 ❄️

 Dr. Mysia Anderson, is teaching the following course this winter. Can I ask you for assistance in circulating this flyer?

This is the course description: "Black Feminist Playwriting" will explore the transformative practices of Black feminist playwrights and their contributions to theatre and social discourse. How do Black feminist playwrights articulate the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and power? What strategies do these playwrights use to resist oppression, reimagine futures, and express joy, care, and resilience? The class will reside at the intersection of theory and praxis and welcomes all identities. 

Please feel free to circulate this flyer and contact Dr. Anderson with any questions you may have!

🍂 FALL 2024 🍂 

USP 189 is not pre-approved as an Ethnic Studies elective. Read the syllabus carefully and if you consider it applicable you can submit a Student Petitions (ucsd.edu)  

"Reparations Politics" (LATI 180)

Dive deep into the complex and transformative world of reparations politics in Latin America. We will learn about different approaches for addressing historical and ongoing harms, from truth and reconciliation, environmental and climate reparations, collective territorial rights, and justice for gendered violence and colonial racism. By engaging with the work of scholars, activists, and communities across the region, we will gain understanding of complexities of reparations through the lens of creative resistance and transformative justice. Class projects focus on curating virtual memory exhibitions that invite reflection and dialogue around the meaning of reparations from a diversity of resources and perspective.   

Professor Amy Kennemore

FA24 Tu/Th 2:00pm-3:20 pm Section 554119 

SUMMER 2024