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ETHNIC STUDIES DEPARTMENT
MISSION
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.
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