ALAS 1840 - Applied Liberal Arts & Science - Ethnic Studies

Credit Hours: 3

This course explores the diversity of experiences and relations among racial and ethnic groups. The course engages with some of the most pressing and challenging racial and ethnic issues facing the United States and the globe. The content includes critical assessment of the economic, political, societal, and historical contexts in which race and ethnicity have been constituted and reproduced. Because race and ethnicity do not exist in isolation, the course materials raise questions and discussions about how intersections with class, gender, and sexuality have produced enduring-but continually evolving-patterns of privilege and inequality, marginalization and dominance, and oppression and empowerment. You will grapple with questions explored in all ALAS coursework, including: What does it mean to be human? What is the “good life”? What is truth? What is justice? You will also grapple with questions such as: What is the racial social hierarchy? How did/does it come to be? Who benefits from status quo power relations? How can human relations be more equitable and just? What does freedom for everyone look like? How is it achieved? The course embraces an interdisciplinary, inquiry-based approach. By developing and leveraging information literacy and social responsibility, it compels students to think imaginatively about complex problems, to appreciate diverse viewpoints, and to consider active engagement toward a freer, more just, and more equitable world.

Level of Study: UG

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ALAS 1840 - Applied Liberal Arts & Science - Ethnic Studies