该集中领域的目的是专门设计的，要求学生完成课程学习，以学习跨学科知识。两门以研究为基础的研究性课程，一门是入门课程，一门是高级高级研讨会，为学生提供适合种族，性别，种族集中度的跨学科研究方法的入门课程和总结课程。要求有两个未成年人，至少一个必须在人文学院之外。
This area of concentration is purposefully designed to require that students complete an individualized body of coursework that educates them in interdisciplinary knowledge. Four inquiry-rich, research-based courses; an introduction to each discipline; and one a capstone senior seminar provide students with introductory and concluding courses in the methodologies appropriate to to interdisciplinary studies in the Race, Gender, Ethnicity Concentration. Other courses in the core are drawn from areas such as Africana Studies, Latinoa and Mexican-American Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. The BS degree differs from the BA in being more focused on problem solving and analysis of data in examining major social and cultural issues. The BS degree therefore requires more courses in science and encourages statistics and mathematics, as opposed to the foreign language requirement of the BA version of the degree.In the addition to a core of courses focused on race and ethnicity and gender, each student must complete two minors for the degree.