Learning Outcomes

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Upon successfully completing the Ethnic Studies program, students will be able to...
  • UNDERSTAND the history and social theories relevant to a critical understanding of African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian American/Pacific Islander ethnic groups;
  • APPLY these theoretical and analytical frameworks to understand an increasingly complex, multicultural and interdependent world; and 
  • EXPERIENCE a community setting that works with or serves one of the groups identified above through a service-learning course, community-based research or their senior project.
  • ARTICULATE clearly, both in written and oral forms, issues of social injustice and the common good, including support and evidence for such issues, and strategies employed to work toward social justice.