Our Degrees

Ethnic Studies is committed to critical theorizations of race, racism, and white supremacy as foundational elements of modern social formations. Through an intersectional analysis, students examine ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality and interrogate interlocking systems of oppression in order to unsettle and disrupt them.

Ethnic Studies cultivates activist-scholars by providing students opportunities to bridge academic study with community engagement. Graduates develop a liberatory vision for social change and acquire skills in community-centered leadership, media literacy, critical and creative thinking, and an ability to advance social justice for BIPOC. The major prepares students for transfer and career pathways that serve BIPOC populations in areas/fields such as education and research, community advocacy, union organizing, city planning and housing development, health and human services, mediation and conflict resolution, marketing and communications, law and policy, fine and performing arts, multicultural affairs, and more. This degree requires a total of 18 units.

Restricted Electives (6 units)

Must choose courses from two different subfields 

AFRS is committed to critical theorizations of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality and interrogating interlocking systems of oppression in order to unsettle and disrupt them. AFRS curriculum confronts unethical educational approaches, recovers and analyzes lost and distorted histories, and expands and imparts knowledge through critical and theoretical inquiry, scholarly research, creative production, and policy analysis. Africana Studies cultivates activist-scholars by providing students opportunities to bridge academic study with community engagement. Students will analyze issues about the African and African diasporic communities while developing a critical and intersectional understanding of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and power in American society and globally. Graduates develop a liberatory vision for social change and acquire skills in community-centered leadership, media literacy, critical and creative thinking, and an ability to advance social justice for African and African diasporic communities. The major prepares students for transfer and career pathways that serve Africana populations in areas/fields such as education and research, community advocacy and organizing, city planning, health and human services, conflict resolution, marketing and communications, law and policy, fine and performing arts, multicultural affairs, and more. This degree requires a total of 18 units.

Restricted Electives (6 units)

Courses can only be used in one area towards degree requirements (Required Core or Restricted Electives).

Chicanx/Latinx Studies (CLS) is committed to critical theorizations of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality and to the interrogation of interlocking systems of oppression in order to unsettle and disrupt them. CLS cultivates activist-scholars by providing students opportunities to bridge academic study with community engagement. Graduates develop a liberatory vision for social change and acquire skills in community-centered leadership, media literacy, critical and creative thinking, and an ability to advance social justice movements for Chicanxs and Latinxs. The major prepares students for transfer and career pathways that serve Chicanx and Latinx populations in areas/fields such as education and research, community advocacy, union organizing, city planning and housing development, health and human services, mediation and conflict resolution, marketing and communications, law and policy, visual and performing arts, multicultural affairs, and more. This degree requires a total of 18 units.

Restricted Electives (6 units)

APIA Studies is committed to critical theorizations of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality and to the interrogation of interlocking systems of oppression in order to unsettle and disrupt them. APIA Studies cultivates activist-scholars by providing students opportunities to bridge academic study with community engagement. Graduates develop a liberatory vision for social change and acquire skills in community-centered leadership, media literacy, critical and creative thinking, and an ability to advance social justice for Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and API diasporic communities. The major prepares students for transfer and career pathways that serve APIA populations in areas/fields such as education and research, community advocacy, union organizing, city planning and housing development, health and human services, mediation and conflict resolution, marketing and communications, law and policy, fine and performing arts, multicultural affairs, and more. This degree requires a total of 18 units

Restricted Electives (6 units)

American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS) is committed to critical theorizations of settler colonialism, indigeneity, gender, sexuality, and sovereignty and to the interrogation of interlocking systems of oppression in order to unsettle and disrupt them. AIIS cultivates activist-scholars by providing students opportunities to bridge academic study with community engagement. Graduates develop a decolonial and liberatory vision for social change, an understanding of Indigenous core values and leadership models, and acquire skills in media literacy, critical and creative thinking, and an ability to advance sovereignty for Indigenous peoples. The major prepares students for transfer and career pathways that serve Indigenous populations in areas/fields such as education and research, cultural and resource management, health and human services, marketing and communications, tribal law and policy, fine and performing arts, American Indian affairs, and more. This degree requires a total of 18 units

Restricted Electives (6 units)