HUM 215 Diversity and Social Justice in America

5 credits

This course meets the Humanities  general education distribution requirement.

Prerequisites: ENGL& 101  (pre or corequisite)

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• Define and apply key terms and concepts of diversity and social justice
• Discuss and analyze how categories of difference are created, maintained, and experienced through power, privilege, and inequity
• Communicate one’s own intersecting identities of difference and how they position oneself in relation to power, privilege, and inequity
• Identify how power, privilege, and inequity are reinforced and challenged at individual, institutional, and systemic levels
• Engage in intentional communication with awareness of intent and impact
• Recognize stereotypes in self and others and their relationship to micro aggressions
• Explain different types of knowledge and how knowledge construction maintains power, privilege, and inequity
• Identify specific ways of becoming an ally in order to disrupt power, privilege, and inequity

• Discuss and explain methods of creative expression, social interaction, and aesthetic considerations employed by individuals and societies
• Employ methods of intellectual and creative inquiry central to the selected Humanities course of study, using the vocabulary, concepts, historical perspectives and materials common to the chosen area
• Dependent on the Humanities area selected, interpret specific artifacts from art, film, history, language, literature, philosophy, religious thought, or narrative form and develop one’s own viewpoint or artifact using the techniques common to that area