Overview

Our analytical approach is comparative, relational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional. Ethnic Studies classes utilize a comparative framework, comparing and contrasting the distinct experiences of different racialized communities.

At the same time, recognizing that communities do not exist in isolation from one another and that race itself is a mutually constitutive process, our classes attend to the intersections, interactions, and the complexities of identity, community formation, and social struggle.

Ethnic Studies employs interdisciplinary approaches that explore the:

social, economic, and political aspects of race, and the histories of communities of color, especially in relation to resistance of social injustice,
the realm of representation and cultural imaginary as expressed in cultural production by Communities of Color,
examination of the ways that race, gender, and sexuality are co-constitutive, and the multiple identities that have emerged at these intersections,
communities’ own narratives about colonization, sovereignty, homeland, racialization, and exoticization,
an examination of health and environmental inequities and how they have impacted the survival of communities of color.

The Ethnic Studies BA program offered at San Francisco State University provides students with a multi-faceted understanding of various forms of oppression and struggles for change both in the US and transnationally.

The analytical framework emphasizes intersectionality, considering the ways race, gender, class, sexuality, and religion work together to erase, elide, and oppress subjects.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Asian American Community Health Issues
Health, Medicine, and Nutrition in the Black Community
Urban Issues of Black Children and Youth
Before the Wilderness: American Indian Ecology
Asian American Religiosities
Black Religion
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Black Journalism

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-09-30 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-05-01 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

San Francisco, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

2.5

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General requirements

Complete and submit the CSU Application
Students will be required to submit official, original or certified/attested copies of all original academic documents in the original language of issue
Applicants who are presently attending a college or university in the United States must, in addition to their international records, submit official transcripts of all work completed and in progress
Applicants must be qualified to enter a university in their home country and have a good scholastic record from an accredited/recognized school
All applicants for admission to the University must pay a $55.00 application fee
English language proficiency

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

8256 USD / year

≈ 8256 USD / year
Out-of-State

8256 USD / year

≈ 8256 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

8256 USD / year

≈ 8256 USD / year

Additional Details

Out-of-State and International students must pay $444.00 PER UNIT in addition to the tuition fees

Living costs

San Francisco

United States

2206 - 4119 USD / month

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Ethnic Studies employs interdisciplinary approaches that explore the:

Programme Structure

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