XLRN 150 - Foundations in Social Identity

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

In a diverse and pluralistic society, it is important to recognize and respect diverse identities, beliefs, and backgrounds. This requires engagement with subjects such as race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, religion, (dis)ability, and the intersections between these different identities. This course has been created as an opportunity to explore, write about, and discuss issues of identity. Students will be able to define “identity” within a theoretical structure, apply their knowledge of diversity to a community action project, situate their own identities within historical contexts, global systems, and power relations, and articulate how they have developed their own understandings of “identity” and trace the effect of this course on their individual growth.

Offered: Fall Semester