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Ethnic Studies Exit Survey

This survey is an opportunity for you to help us improve our Program. As graduating seniors, you are an invaluable source of information, so please be completely candid in your responses. All surveys are completely anonymous and will remain confidential.

1 My gender is: _______________________

2 I belong to/self-identify with the following ethnic/racial group:

3 I took the following Ethnic Studies courses at UCCS:

Please use the scale below to answer statements 1-20. Feel free to add additional comments to expand upon your responses.

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1 I am proud of what I accomplished in my Ethnic Studies Minor.

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2 I believe that my Ethnic Studies Minor will serve me in my career.

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3 Too many courses were required to complete my Ethnic Studies minor.

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4 Too few courses were required to complete my Ethnic Studies minor.

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5 I believe the standards expected in my Ethnic Studies Courses were reasonable.

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6 I am interested in learning more about the discipline in which I minored.

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7 I believe the Ethnic Studies minor allowed me to develop my oral communication skills.

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8 I believe my Ethnic Studies courses helped me improve my writing skills.

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9 I believe my Ethnic studies courses enhanced my ability to think critically and analytically.

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10 I believe my Ethnic Studies courses educated me to become a more civic minded individual.

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11 I am satisfied with the quality of academic advising/mentorship that I received to help me plan my courses in the minor.

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12 I believe that my experience in the minor has enabled me to examine knowledge from specific U.S. racial/ethnic minority perspectives.

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13 My Ethnic Studies course work has enabled me to see the relationships among racial/ethnic groups and explore the nature or basis of racial/ethnic formation, and its intersections with class, gender and sexuality.

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14 My Ethnic Studies course work has enabled me to develop competencies from working with people in different ethnic backgrounds and fostering an appreciation of ethnic diversity.

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15 My Ethnic Studies course work has enabled me to de-center or challenge previously held Euro-centric knowledge constructions.

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16 I feel that I have experienced or achieved a measurable increase in my knowledge of major theories and concepts of Ethnic Studies.

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17 As a result of my course work, I have successfully connected comparative and relational knowledge of main currents and guiding principles in EST to African American studies, Latino/Hispanic studies, Asian American studies, and Native American Studies.

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18 I have developed a knowledge of the rapidly increasing scholarship in U.S. minority groups, which focuses on the private and public lives of ethnic minority people, their historical, literary and artistic contributions, their social, political, and economic conditions, and the relations of ethnic minority groups not only to each other, as well as to their related diasporas, but to the dominant power structures in U.S. society in terms of gender, class and race.

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19 I have had the opportunity to evaluate my own personal reality with the larger ethnic minority groups realities through theoretical and practical knowledge gained in EST courses.

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20 I have had the opportunity to adequately synthesize and thereby evaluate my experience in the ethnic Studies Program.

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Please turn this page over to complete the Exit Statement.

Exit Statement: Please take a moment to reflect on your overall experience in your minor, specifically how it relates to your major field of study at UCCS. Then write a statement about this connection, your overall experience in the minor, and the overall effectiveness of the Program. Thank you for your participation – your input is important!