High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This course introduces students to ethnic studies as an academic discipline. Reading and writing assignments center on an interdisciplinary study of indigeneity, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on the experiences of people of color and other historically marginalized groups in the United States. The course provides an overview of the effects of historical and institutional racism and discrimination against African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Latinx/Chicanx, and others through their perspectives. The course helps students explore their own ethnic identity/identities, and those of their peers, in an effort to center community cultural wealth, identity, and agency in both learning and social spaces.