AMS 230 Topics in Critical Race Studies

Inquiry-based course that focuses on various topics, depending on instructor and semester offered. Topics highlight the ways in which cultural institutions, discourses, and products work to assemble race as a category; in addition, they address the lived realities imposed by societal constructions of race. Students may be encouraged to analyze the vehicles of racial formation, the structures that encourage its maintenance, and the benefits of and drawbacks to acknowledging racial identity. May be repeated for credit. Fulfills diversity and interdisciplinary requirements.

Credits

3-4