HDEV 100The Study of Human Change

Catalog

This course provides first and second year Human Development majors with early exposure to the department of human development at Binghamton University - a department concerned with the ways in which large-scale questions of social justice intersect with local communities and individual lives. The course briefly introduces students to human development faculty members' human and social transformation focused research. In addition, students will learn of struggles around the world to address social problems such as environmental justice, disparities access to public goods (including education and health care), discrimination based on social categories such as race, gender, ethnicity, and religion, and economic inequality. Students will encounter a range of human rights abuses and examine some of the historical foundations of current structural inequalities globally and in the U.S. context. HDEV majors may use this course as elective credit. The only grading option for this course is CCPA Standard Letter Grade. Offered: fall or spring. 4 credits