Find yourself in Ethnic Studies

The Department of Ethnic Studies offers courses and programs that allow students to examine issues related to ethnic and gender identity. We offer a major, minors, and courses that are interdisciplinary in nature, providing a holistic approach to the study of the United States' multi-racial, multicultural, and multigender society. The department's faculty integrate social science and literary theory, as well as anthropological and sociological concepts within a transnational, historical, and humanistic perspective. The goal of Ethnic Studies is to provide a better understanding of diversity in American culture and thought.

The Ethnic Studies major consists of a core of Ethnic Studies courses, support courses in other departments in the university, and Options in African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Latino/a Studies, Native American Studies, and Genders and Sexualities in Communities of Color.  

Students of all backgrounds will find themselves represented in our curriculum. Ethnic Studies is for everyone!

For more information, please contact the department chair or the department administrative support person at 510-885-3255.

Reaching courtesy of the artist, Alice Fong.