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The mission of Ethnic Studies, as reaffirmed at the last program review, is directed towards fulfilling program and institutional obligations in the following areas:

• General Education
• Major/Minor
• Service

We consider the following as objectives of our mission at CSUS:

• To provide a rigorous and disciplined examination of the past and present experiences of historically oppressed and underrepresented ethnic groups in the Untied States.
• To provide an opportunity for all students to gain an understanding of the contributions of ethnic and racial groups to the United States and to world civilizations.
• To provide an opportunity for people of color to actually engage and accurately interpret their own social and cultural experiences.
• To assist all students with gaining knowledge, skills, and understandings which will give them the intellectual and emotional flexibility to live and function in a culturally diverse society and world.
• To encourage students to become involved in solving problems of the contemporary era.
• To develop, and cause to be developed, scholarship on ethnic groups and have this scholarship incorporated in the University curriculum.
• To strengthen our ties with the communities of color both within and outside the University.