Students who intend to major in American Ethnic & Gender Studies at a four-year institution should complete the requirements for an Associate in Arts degree. Students should work closely with an advisor at the baccalaureate institution they plan to transfer to before finalizing their education plan.
American Ethnic & Gender Studies (AEGS) is an exploratory pathway intended for all students who want to learn more about how identities and communities are formed and transformed. Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, AEGS coursework is designed to give students the skills necessary to analyze the relationships among race, gender, Indigeneity, sexuality, ability, land, and other social formations. Students learn to effectively engage with diverse voices, cultures, lives, knowledge traditions, and wisdoms of the human experience. Students are also equipped with the critical thinking tools necessary to ask questions about and cultivate solutions to our most pressing social issues and problems in varying contexts and scales.
Such knowledge and skills are not only essential to thriving in a complex world but are also transferable to many degrees and careers, including in education as teachers, curriculum designers, and counselors; human resources as diversity and inclusion consultants; social services as case managers; law as attorneys and legal advocates; public health as community health educators and researchers; government as policymakers in tribal nations and federal agencies; non-profit organizations as organizers, cultural center directors, and community outreach specialists; and the creative arts as filmmakers, writers, and artists exploring cultural themes. Students may also dive deeper into a particular area of interest.
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