Mission Statement

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 California State University, Sacramento:

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.