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Program Overview
The Master's in Critical Ethnic Studies at DePaul University equips students with advanced skills in analyzing racial and ethnic issues. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the program emphasizes social justice and challenges power structures, focusing on US ethnic populations. Students benefit from faculty expertise, access to Chicago resources, and DePaul's vast alumni network.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Master's in Critical Ethnic Studies is designed to equip students with advanced analytical skills in understanding race and ethnicity in both urban and global contexts. The program emphasizes social justice and transformation, employing an interdisciplinary and antiracist lens to critique power structures at local and global levels. It specifically focuses on US ethno-racial populations through intersectional, decolonial, transnational, international, and urban frameworks.
Teaching:
The program offers core courses in the evening at the Lincoln Park Campus, with electives available online and at both the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses, both during the day and evening hours. Students can complete the program within two years.
Careers:
94% of Critical Ethnic Studies graduates were employed, continuing their education, or pursuing other goals within six months of graduation.
Other:
- The program draws on DePaul's expertise across a variety of disciplines, including:
- African and Black Diaspora Studies
- English
- Communication
- Global Asian Studies
- History
- International Studies
- Islamic World Studies
- Latin American and Latino/a Studies
- LGBTQ Studies
- Sociology
- Women’s and Gender Studies
- The program is the first of its kind in the nation.
- Students will work with faculty like Laura Kina, St. Vincent de Paul Professor of art, media, and design, and director of critical ethnic studies, who brings real-world expertise to the classroom.
- DePaul alumni network of 180,000 provides students with professional and academic connections.
