Southwestern University
Race and Ethnicity Studies Program Minor

Georgetown, USA

DEGREE TYPE

Bachelor's degree

DURATION

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

Sep 2026

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

Key Summary

About: The Race and Ethnicity Studies Program Minor focuses on understanding the complexities of race and ethnicity in various social contexts. This program encourages critical analysis of these topics and explores the impact of race and ethnicity on identity, culture, and society. Students engage with a diverse range of subjects, emphasizing social justice and advocacy.

Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers in education, community outreach, social work, public policy, and diversity consulting. They may also continue their studies in graduate programs related to sociology, anthropology, or law.

The Race and Ethnicity Studies Program offers a minor designed to examine race and ethnicity as categories of difference and as forms of lived experience and attends to how these categories intersect and overlap with other forms of difference (such as gender, nation, indigeneity, class, religion, ability, sexuality, etc.).

The minor approaches race and ethnicity as constructs in particular historical contexts from interdisciplinary, comparative, intercultural, and transnational perspectives. It also develops a critical awareness of colonial and Eurocentric influences on both the construction of these categories and the scholarly discourse about them. The minor thus provides a critical lens on a variety of historical and contemporary issues and debates generated by specific racial and ethnic formations. At the same time, the minor takes note of mobilizations and liberating cultural expressions that have emerged both in response and as alternatives to dominant racial and ethnic structures.

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