Overview
Description
This course addresses the historical, social, and political origins and implications of group identities in the United States (including racial, sexual, gender, class, generational, and national identities). By analyzing the issues and conflicts arising from these identities, the course considers how best to analyze and address ongoing group-based inequalities and oppressions.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Sophomore standing or above.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Core
CO10
Related Courses
Cross Listed With WMST 353
Restrictions
Sophomore standing or above.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- articulate how identity is formed and sustained in order to determine how and when it matters to politics.
- identify the challenges and opportunities that come with organizing diverse political communities, and develop a view on how to balance competing identity-based claims.
- investigate how laws, policies, and norms consider neutrality across different identities.
- build a perspective on how to respond to claims from groups and people with historically marginalized identities, including those of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, physical ability, language, and social class, as they relate to concepts of diversity and equity.
- analyze how difference and exclusion relate to identity in order to argue how and when identity should be recognized in politics.