- 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 5: Communicate complex ideas clearly through multiple modes (academic writing, public writing, data/visual storytelling, oral presentation) while producing knowledge that empowers and enhances marginalized 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.