American Cultures

Berkeley Law professor Nazune Menka created an American Cultures course fall 2021 named Decolonizing UC Berkeley, dedicated to unpacking campus’ ties to settler colonialism and its relationship with Indigenous groups in California.

Despite the intimidating reality that we are living amidst human-caused climate change, climate action has faced political and informational roadblocks.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the American Cultures, or AC, program requirement, campus’s Doe Library is hosting a temporary exhibit entitled “Tumbling the Ivory Tower,” which tracks the history of the University of California American Cultures requirement.

As we consider this ethnic studies curriculum, we must do so with a degree of attention, care and foresight equal to the great potential and power it holds.

UC Berkeley faculty and the Wiki Education Foundation are using Wikipedia to help students research, annotate and edit articles on topics they are learning in their courses.

Persuading someone to act like a bear on film may seem more like a quarantine prank challenge than a homework assignment, but not according to a new summer course titled, “The Berkeley Changemaker,” which aims to teach leadership to campus freshmen.

Over the past 150 years, UC Berkeley has made efforts to support women through its curriculum and school resources, but many still feel there is work to be done.

While the Third World Liberation Front's goal of creating an independent Third World College on campus was not realized during the height of this activist movement in 1969, the movement had resounding impact on future movements and impacted the legacy of ethnic studies on campus.

The UC Berkeley ethnic studies department and multicultural major programs have historically struggled to maintain their funding in the face of campus budget cuts.

My academic transition to UC Berkeley went smoothly because community college adequately prepared me.