EDU45100

This course explores ways in which social categories of difference – such as race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and citizenship – are socially constructed through power struggles that take place under specific historical and current conditions. It is designed to provide students with the critical skills required to identify and analyze social forces shaping identity, power, and social inequality through the lenses of struggles for social justice. Through texts, films, current events, and participatory experiential learning, students will explore how cultural difference matters in issues such as social decision-making power, wealth distribution, community health, cultural and environmental sustainability, politics of representation, globalization, human and civil rights, education, opportunity and life chances.SPECIAL NOTES: N/A