Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality

Catalog description

This course addresses the multiple and intersecting ways race, class, gender, and sexuality, affect individual life chances, daily social interactions, and the larger society. We first take a detailed look at each of the core concepts: race, class, gender, and sexuality. Studying the “socially constructed” nature of these concepts, we ask what meanings and values have been attached to them, and how these social constructions help to rationalize and justify social inequality. We then analyze the significance of race, class, gender, and sexuality in a variety of institutional and interpersonal contexts, including schools, the workplace, families and relationships, and the criminal justice system. Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Not open to seniors.