Equity Studies Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates are expected to meet the following benchmarks as Equity Studies Majors: maintain a 2.0 GPA or higher in their courses; acquire foundational knowledge of the issues in equity studies; apply concepts and theories related to equity studies to a disciplinary or interdisciplinary creative, scholarly, and/or activist project; and successfully complete a capstone project in Equity Studies.

Graduates of the Equity Studies Major:

1. Are able to identify and analyze the historical and contemporary political, economic, and social structures/systems that create and sustain unethical worldviews or ideologies and intersectional oppression, privilege, and inequity;
2. Engage critically and reflexively in order to embrace antiracism and anti-ableism in theory and practice, as well as draw connections between their own positionality and current events, movements, and societal problems;
3. Identify and analyze how and why ideologies, perceptions, constructions, and generalizations about specific groups are created and manifested in oppressive beliefs, assumptions, interpretations, biases, interactions, and behaviors;
4. Examine issues of in/equity using qualitative and/or quantitative methods of analysis;
5. Understand what collective liberation from oppressive systems and structures requires, and be equipped to apply that understanding to their personal and professional lives.