Major Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of a major in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, you should emerge with the following skills, competencies, and knowledge:

Critical Frameworks

• Deep knowledge of historical, contemporary, and intersectional perspectives on race and ethnicity.

• Familiarity with different disciplinary methods applied to race and ethnicity.

• A critical perspective on institutional power and knowledge.

Communication

• Ability to account for other people's arguments, to formulate one's own arguments, and to locate both arguments in the larger context of the field.

• Ability to formulate an argument in alternative media, such as speech, audiovisual, digital, and other forms of non-written communication.

• Effective writing in the interdisciplinary field.

Research

• Ability to design and implement a collaborative research project.

• Ability to design and implement an independent research project.

Community Collaboration, Engagement, and Activism

• An understanding of the issues, ethics, and methods surrounding activist, collaborative, and community-based research projects

• An understanding of collaborative knowledge that effectively integrates theoretical and experiential thinking about social justice.