Minor in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Learning Outcomes
Students in the CRES minor will be able to:
Define race as a social construct that reflects and creates diverse relations and experiences of power dependent upon time and place.
Recognize the contributions and impacts of individuals and communities of color on the historical, social, cultural, and political landscape of the United States.
Compare and contrast among the racialized experiences of different groups within different temporal, geographic, and social locations.
Examine how race and ethnicity intersect with other identities, including citizenship, national/regional origin, legal status, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ability, and others.
Locate their own relationship to race, ethnicity, culture, and power.
Design and develop original research in order to participate in knowledge creation within the field of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
Understand how justice-oriented movements have engaged/engage in actionable strategies that help the most vulnerable people of society to survive and organize toward collective action.
Apply justice-oriented theories to real-world contexts through collaborative design and/or implementation of a community-oriented praxis that addresses the needs of marginalized communities.
