- PLO 1: Identify, describe, and analyze major issues including but not limited to the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and Latinx communities.
- PLO 2: Correctly and effectively apply vocabulary, concepts, theories, and analytical frameworks essential to Ethnic Studies in essays, exams, and research papers.
- PLO 3: Understand, analyze, articulate and apply concepts such as race, racialization, and racism, ethnicity, white supremacy, intersectionality, critical race theory, Diaspora, decolonization, sovereignty, imperialism, settler colonialism, and anti-racism
- PLO 4: Develop clear understanding of the ways that race intersects with gender, sexuality, nation, class, ethnicity and other identities shape everyday experiences, institutions, and communities.
- PLO 6: Explain and assess how social movements, resistance, racial and social justice organizing, solidarity, and liberation, have shaped historic experiences of communities of color and how those movements manifest within contemporary culture.
- PLO 7: Ability to see connective tissue, linked histories, and shared experiences across communities, particularly African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and Latinx communities. Understand the unique and diverse experiences of specific communities
- PLO 8: Interpret and assess laws, policies, cultural practices, court decisions, and other institutional arrangements that impact racialized communities. Ability to develop justice-oriented, freedom articulating, and equity centered reforms.