AMS 220 Topics in Diversity and Social Justice

Inquiry-based course that focuses on various topics, depending on instructor and semester offered. Topics explore questions surrounding multiculturalism and the possibility for cultural empowerment and/or disenfranchisement of minority groups, or raise questions about social justice and human rights. Students may be encouraged to consider how constructions of race, class, and gender operate among various groups of people and how these constructions alter access to mainstream structures of power. Topics stretch from domestic cultural contexts to global concerns, allowing students to deeply and broadly consider the idea of social justice as it shifts across the landscape of diversity in the U.S. and the world. May be repeated for credit. Fulfills diversity and interdisciplinary requirements.

Credits

3-4