Associate of Arts in Ethnic Studies

This two-year degree program of study leads to transfer to a four-year college where students can continue their education and pursue an Ethnic Studies major, which includes comparative Ethnic Studies, Latinx Studies, Chicanx Studies, Black/African American Studies, Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander Studies, and Indigenous/Native American Studies. As a discipline, Ethnic Studies provides pedagogical, intellectual, and social benefits through its curriculum and community and student-centered approach to scholarship. Ethnic Studies empowers students as holders and creators of knowledge. When they enter the classroom spaces, they are students, leaders, and educators. Ethnic Studies affirms community cultural wealth, decolonizes racist systemic practices, and provides a space for healing, transformative and anti-racist education, and community building. Ethnic Studies creates bridges across racial differences while celebrating diversity.

An Associate of Arts Degree in Ethnic Studies offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of racialized communities, which includes Black/African American, Latinx/Chicanx, Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander, and Indigenous/Native American communities. The transdisciplinary approach incorporates theories of race and ethnicity as it challenges dominant normative stories that can be found in identity politics, culture, art, literature, politics, history, and local and global society. The program provides practical training for careers in education, politics, social work, counseling and psychology, nonprofit work, the fine arts, and many related fields that rely on the ability to work with a culturally diverse population. The degree requires a minimum of 18 units lower division work in Ethnic Studies and is combined with the California State General Education Pattern to prepare students to take upper division courses at a California State University.

High School Transcript. TOEFL iBT - 61, IELTS - 5.5 (minimum band score of 4.5).