Engaging Social Differences

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Three hours lecture per week Asks how social differences are engaged in past and current contexts in ways that create and maintain inequities and conflict or that support and nurture our differences as cultural resources. Starting from an integrative and intersectional comparative exploration of the construction of social differences, including psycho-social identity formations and their political, economic, and material implications, students will explore both failures and successes in engaging social differences as a source of strength in personal, social, political, and economic contexts. Students will practice engaging social differences to develop skills necessary to face increasingly globalized social and material realities.