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On this page: Major Description<\/a> | Learning Objectives<\/a> | Degree Planning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you want to explore a career in Diversity & Inclusion, Community Organizing or Education?
Do courses like Diversity, Leadership and Engagement and Human Rights in America sound exciting to you?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The American & Ethnic Studies<\/strong> major at the University of Washington Bothell offers students the opportunity to study the relationships in American history and between minority and majority groups. Academic and other learning experiences enhance students’ ability for future work in human services, work in politics or community organizing for underrepresented populations, using critical thinking and decision making skills learned through the student of the American culture and beyond. Students will explore values, ideas, belief systems, and expression and will examine the relationship between everyday life, power structures, and cultural forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PURPOSE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Students in the American & Ethnic Studies major are passionate about understanding how humans interact with each other. Students who are curious about the diverse and intersecting categories of race, place, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, and ability thrive in the American & Ethnic Studies major.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PRACTICE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Courses in the American & Ethnic Studies major focus on the relationships between power, inequality, resistance, social and environmental justice within the United States and beyond. Using various scholarly methods, students make connections between the past and present, utilizing different forms of theory, practice, and interpretation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PROFESSION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Students position themselves for success by bringing a global perspective to their career choice. Students develop flexible critical thinking, writing and speaking skills which prepares them for careers in government, non-profits, or with social justice organizations. Alumni also pursue graduate study in legal, cultural, and historical fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Learning objectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The American & Ethnic Studies curriculum advances the five core School of IAS learning objectives<\/a>. Students taking courses and\/or majoring in American & Ethnic Studies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Think critically about the relationship between power, inequality, resistance, difference, and social and environmental justice in the United States and in relation to the larger world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Explore how structures of power in the Americas have constituted and been constituted by diverse and intersecting categories such as race, place, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, and ability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Research American cultures in both the past and the present using a variety of sources, including literary texts, historical archives, film, photographs, comics, newspapers, oral histories, sound recordings, and government documents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Develop creative, collaborative, and intersectional approaches for the study of the Americas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Apply critical and interdisciplinary knowledge within a range of academic, professional, and community-based settings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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