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The Center for Ethnic Studies (CES) brings together three units for collaboration and cooperation in research, programming, teaching, and student support: Latinx Studies, Asian American Studies, and American Indian Studies. Ethnic Studies as a field is the interdisciplinary study of American ethnic history, including the history of racial, ethnic, and national identity formation in the United States and the legacies of colonization, forced and voluntary migration, Indigenous genocide, and trans-Atlantic slavery in the Americas. Historically, academic programs in Ethnic Studies came into being in higher education as the result of civil rights movements in the United States that advocated not only for equality for ethnic and racial minorities throughout society, but also for a wider societal understanding of the complex histories, experiences, literatures, arts, and cultures of these diverse populations.
CES continues in this tradition by working to expand what all of us can know about the nexus of racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, and sexual difference through research and teaching. As interdisciplinary programs, we include faculty and students from many fields and colleges at OSU. In addition to research and teaching, our faculty and students are involved in community education and outreach efforts as well as collaborative projects in humanities and performance research, forging new pathways in higher education.
CES works with partners across the university to advance the study of persistent inequalities that fuel continued underrepresentation for many; to deepen our humanities-based knowledge and understanding of American Indians, Latinxs, and Asian Americans; and to explore the dynamic interconnections for these populations between their lives in the U.S. and other parts of the globe.
CES offers three undergraduate minors and two graduate Graduate Interdisciplinary Specializations (GIS). These are the Asian American Studies Undergraduate Minor and GIS, the Latinx Studies Undergraduate Minor and GIS, the American Indian Studies Undergraduate Minor. Follow the links or visit our program pages for more information on minoring in one of our programs.
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