Ethnic Studies

The Ethnic Studies Minor at Baylor is an interdisciplinary minor focused on the study of various racial and ethnic histories, cultures, vernaculars, and epistemologies as sites of inquiry including Black/African American Studies, Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, Chicano/a studies, Latino/a studies, Puerto Rican studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies.

Courses in the Ethnic Studies minor will provide social, historical and/or cultural contexts to help students in the minor understand the kinds of rhetorical arguments (e.g., textual, oral, aural, visual, statistical, digital, etc.) that historically make racially and ethnically marginalized people visibly invisible, thereby, creating a sense of unbelonging in many spaces they occupy, including campus communities. The kinds of invisibility they experience leads to inequity materially, socially, and psychologically.

Students who receive a minor in Ethnic Studies will be prepared to work in a number of fields including health, education, state and federal agencies, human services, and many other allied fields.