Program Overview
The fastest growing major in the Humanities, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) provides a deep understanding of how race and other modalities of power have structured human life and have informed the imagination of social transformation and justice in the past and the present. CRES accordingly offers a study of the dynamic power relations resulting from the cultural and institutional productions of the idea of “race” on a local, national, and global scale. Here, “race” is understood as a major ideological framework through which both practices of power and domination and struggles for liberation and self-determination have been articulated and enacted throughout modern history and in the contemporary moment.
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Major
- 3 year pathway
- 4+1 Bachelors & Masters
- Behavioral & Social Sciences
- Humanities
Student Story: Jadyn-Kathleen
Through the Humanities EXCEL program, Jadyn-Kathleen works as a Communication and Programs intern at Save Our Shores. At her internship, she has worked with students as a chaperone on field trips, written blog posts, participated in beach cleanups, and attended tabling events where she practiced talking to people about conservation and the work that SOS does.
Career Outcomes
- Affirmative action
- Business
- Career counseling
- Community organizing
- Health care
- Higher education
- Human resources
- K-12 education
- Law
- Lobbying
- Politics
- Public policy
- Research
- Social services
- Social work
- Teaching
- Union organizing
These are only a sample of the field’s many possibilities.
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