Ethnic Studies 1 offers a multidisciplinary analysis (history, law, civics, economics) of social justice movements in the United States. Central questions of the class include: What methods, strategies, and ideas drive successful social justice movements? What do these movements have in common? How are they different? How do these movements reflect a challenge to American values and in what ways are they consistent? What impact have these movements had on the political and economic systems of the United States?