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CSULB SOAR - Ethnic Studies

440 views · Published 18 July 2016 · 3:42 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: Beach TV CSULB · 2016 · Education

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Welcome SOAR students, families and friends. My name is Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies. On behalf of my fellow ethnic studies colleagues and our departments and programs: American Indian Studies, Africana Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies and Asian American Studies, we warmly welcome you to CSULB. 
Our Ethnic Studies faculty and staff serve at the center of cooperative efforts with our colleagues across campus to carry out the university’s mission “to prepare students for an international, multicultural society” by cultivating and promoting “an understanding and appreciation of the peoples, natural environment, cultures, economies and diversity of the world.” It is in this context that we maintain that a quality education is by definition and practice a multicultural education.
Therefore, we invite and urge you to expand your intellectual and cultural horizons and interests by taking ethnic studies courses as a major, double major or minor or as GE requirements or electives. Ethnic Studies provides a unique educational experience within three overarching areas: cultural grounding, academic excellence and enrichment, and social engagement.
Ethnic studies provides students with a necessary multicultural grounding which expands your cultural understanding, enhances your hiring possibilities in a multicultural workforce and enriches your ability to understand and relate and work well with others in a multicultural society and world.
Ethnic studies’ emphasis on academic excellence represents our commitment to the highest levels of learning, teaching and research in contribution to the critical understanding and advancement of human life, human relations and the well-being of the world from our unique and varied perspectives, experiences, bodies of knowledge and ways of knowing.
And the ethnic studies emphasis on social engagement involves sharing with you views, values and practices that enhance your concern and expand your capacity for using your knowledge and skills for civic service, social change and building the good world we all want and deserve to live in.
Here we join the past, present and future in an integrated and interrelated whole under the assumption that this is our shared duty: to know our past and honor it; to engage our present and improve it and to imagine a whole new future and to forge it in the most ethical, effective and expansive ways. Again, we warmly welcome you to CSULB.

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