I went to college with the intention of majoring in Economics/Global Economics; however, I have decided to switch gear and focus more on social justice matter. I am now thinking of pursuing a major in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. I am affiliated with Oakes College, one of the ten colleges at UCSC, and their core values center around Social Justice Issues. Every freshman is required to take a Core class, a writing class that focus specifically on the themes of the ten colleges, and I had the privileged of learning about how our society functioned. It really made me more conscious of my surrounding and how systematic forces such as the media has played such a significant role on how underprivileged people of color view the world. This class made me more analytical and critical about certain things. It has definitely made me view the United States in a whole new perspective. I truly felt that this has made me grow as an individual because it solved most of the missing puzzles that did not made sense while growing
I went to college with the intention of majoring in Economics/Global Economics; however, I have decided to switch gear and focus more on social justice matter. I am now thinking of pursuing a major in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. I am affiliated with Oakes College, one of the ten colleges at UCSC, and their core values center around Social Justice Issues. Every freshman is required to take a Core class, a writing class that focus specifically on the themes of the ten colleges, and I had the privileged of learning about how our society functioned. It really made me more conscious of my surrounding and how systematic forces such as the media has played such a significant role on how underprivileged people of color view the world. This class made me more analytical and critical about certain things. It has definitely made me view the United States in a whole new perspective. I truly felt that this has made me grow as an individual because it solved most of the missing puzzles that did not made sense while growing