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Critical Diversity Studies, BA

Analyze the historical and contemporary social constructions of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, and religion. Raise difficult questions and offer big ideas to shape a more just future.

Enact Social Change

Prepare to work in diverse contexts including human resources, education, social work, nonprofit and for-profit management, policy research and implementation, the law, and civic administration.

Careers

Choose Your Path

Choose from five different concentrations. Double major or take a minor. At only 40 units, our program allows you to take on additional programs or community work.

From the House of Love and Prayer, San Francisco
Create an Exhibit that Preserves History

Zoe Bishop ’22, a critical diversity studies major with a Jewish studies and social justice minor, helps document Jewish history in the Bay Area.

Evelyn Ho

Evelyn Ho

Professor

Promote Activism and Social Justice

Sometimes furthering your cause means organizing protests and having public events. Other times a movement is founded on behind-the-scenes actions — educating yourself and others, building collaborations, and helping people be ready for action."

Evelyn Ho

Professor

Learn Beyond the Classroom

Learn not only from your professors but from artists, activists, scholars, and community leaders who will explore classroom themes and bring them to life through art, poetry, performance, and speech.

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Christina Garcia Lopez

Program Director
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Hours

Mon-Fri: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

Allison Gallardo

Program Assistant
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Hours

Mon-Fri: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.