- PLO 1: Identify, describe, and analyze major issues including but not limited to the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and/or 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 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.