Language, Narrative and Unconscious Bias

Catalog description

WRIT 420 introduces students to the metaphoric and narrative foundations of human identities and the prejudices inherited with those identities. The course provides students with an understanding of the complexity of their own personal assemblage of identities as well as those of others. Unconscious bias, its impact on decision-making, and social crises arising from identity conflicts will be studied, as well as techniques for recognizing and mitigating one's own unconscious biases.