HUM 215 Diversity and Social Justice in America

5 credits

This course will engage students in an extended analysis of diversity and social justice in the United States with the aim of exploring current realities of race and social class and their relationship to power and privilege. Students will develop and strengthen awareness and understanding of how power, privilege, and inequity are reinforced and challenged at individual, institutional, and systemic levels.

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

College-Wide Learning Outcomes
This course teaches to the college-wide learning outcome of Communication, the ability to engage effectively in verbal, non-verbal, written, and/or symbolic expression.

Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50