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Current Catalog Year: 2025-2026

Course Blurbs and Essential Objectives

SOC-2040   Race, Ethnicity, Class & Gender   3 Credits
 
This course explores how race, ethnicity, class, gender, and other intersecting identities shape individual experiences and social structures across diverse societies. Students examine inequality, prejudice, and privilege through a global lens, investigating how cultural, political, and historical contexts influence social dynamics. Emphasis is placed on social diversity, underrepresented voices, and the ways communities are labeled or marginalized within institutions such as education, employment, and civic life.
 
    1. Define the evolving sociological frameworks and language used to describe race, ethnicity, class, gender, sex, sexuality, and ability.
    2. Examine theories related to the origins of prejudice, including conscious and unconscious thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors.
    3. Discuss the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and gender and examine methods through which social scientists conduct research on these intersections.
    4. Describe the ways in which social privilege, political power, and traditional ideologies create, reinforce, and maintain racial, ethnic, class, and gender stereotypes across different cultural and national contexts.
    5. Analyze how traditional and emerging ideologies, institutions, social structures, policies, and technologies—including algorithmic decision-making and artificial intelligence—create, maintain, or challenge inequalities and impact access to opportunities in areas such as employment, education, and civic participation across diverse global societies.
    6. Analyze how underrepresented voices and social diversity influence community dynamics in settings such as neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and civic spaces across different cultural and national settings.
   


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