Genealogies of Race in Higher Education & Student Affairs

Catalog description

This course attempts to broadly trace a critical genealogy of conceptualizations of race in higher education and student affairs scholarship and practice, with a focus on the United States as the geographic context. Students review theories of racial formation and immerse themselves in tenets and applications of critical race theory in the field. Throughout, applied studies from Higher Education and Student Affairs practice are woven alongside more theoretical works in order to equip them to name and investigate the material consequences of ideas of racial difference, particularly as they are manifested in the university. The final third of the course considers some institutional responses to the call for addressing the complex, and ever-morphing disease of racism as it shows up on our campuses and in our curriculum. Throughout the course, students have opportunities to delve into core concepts, apply and critique them, and build off of them, both in individual assignments and in group work.