The Ethnicity, Race, and First Nations Studies Program at ASU's West campus is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on comparative themes or issues in United States history relevant to the understanding of “race,”[1] culture, and ethnicity.  We offer a Bachelor of Arts Degree, a Minor Degree, and  a Certificate.

The comparative approach encourages students to develop a critical understanding of diversity among and between African Americans, indigenous people of the Americas, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, and other ethnic groups.  The program recognizes that while American society refers to the geographical region of the United States, that cultural, economic, and political patterns do not stop at national borders

[1] No biological races exist within the human species thus the term refers to categories that are a historical social construction.