# Multicultural Studies (MCS) courses

Palomar College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 2 courses

Source: https://palomar.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/32573/33385/32652

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027.

### MCS 100 — Introduction to Multicultural Studies

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Social, cultural, and political awareness of diverse national and international systems of thought and multicultural groups as revealed through their social institutions and cultural traditions emanating from family, community and nation - state.

### MCS 200 — Race, Class, and Ethnic Groups in America

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** SOCI 150
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/mcs.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/mcs.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass
- Cross listed as: SOC 200, AMS 200

This course is designed to introduce the topics of intergroup relations in general to superordinate-subordinate relations in particular, as exemplified in various racial, ethnic, social class, and cultural groups. Emphasis is primarily on contemporary relations in the United States, although a comparative perspective is also offered.