Ethnic Studies is a vibrant, interdisciplinary program that allows students to study the historical, cultural, and social dynamics of race and ethnicity in the United States. The Major addresses our shared national legacy of conquest, contact, and resistance through three areas of concentration: History and Identity, Creativity and Spirituality, and Institutions and Activism. 

Ethnic Studies Learning Goals/Outcomes:

1. Summarize the legacies of contact, conquest, and resistance within the U.S. historical and contemporary context.
2. Analyze the ways in which personal experiences are rooted in history and identity, creativity and spiritually, and institutions and U.S. activism from the experiences of at least two to four U.S. racial/ethnic groups.
3. Discuss the ways in which groups live with and challenge the inheritance of conquest, colonialism, oppressions, slavery, extermination, segregation, sexism, and homophobia at the local, national, and transnational levels.
4. Using a social justice perspective compare and contrast the concepts of colorblindness, multiculturalism, diversity, tolerance, anti-racism, and conflict resolution.
5. Apply critical race theoretical knowledge as a method that resists contemporary forms of oppression and marginalization and instead strengthens cultural competency.
6. Link theoretical paradigm with community-based research and experimential learning such as social activism and participatory research.