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。该学位要求两名未成年人，至少一名必须来自文理学院之外。种族，性别，种族集中于大学学习的学生可能不会攻读双专业或双学位。
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 a capstone senior seminar provides students with introductory and concluding courses in the methodologies appropriate to interdisciplinary studies in the Race, Gender, Ethnicity Concentration. Other courses in the core are drawn from areas such as Africana Studies, Latino/a and Mexican-American Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. <br>In the addition to a core of courses focused on race and ethnicity and gender, each student must complete two minors for the degree. It is expected that at least one minor will be from outside the College of Arts and Sciences.<br>A student enrolled in the University Studies concentration of Race, Gender, Ethnicity may not pursue a double major or a double degree.