SBS302

This required foundation course is designed to increase students' awareness, knowledge, and critical skills related to diversity, equity, inclusion, human rights, social and economic justice. The topics of this course include developing a framework for 1) recognizing inequities based on social categories such as race, class, and gender and histories of colonialism and migration 2) advancing human rights and social and economic justice 3) intentionally engaging diverse communities in ways that advance equity and inclusion as a betterment to society. We will explore the knowledge base that underlies skills needed to work towards justice. These include types and sources of power, multiple social locations, social constructions, social processes, social identities, conflicts, and how all these interact. A major emphasis is on developing skills in critical contextual thinking and analyses, and in praxis, learning to use knowledge and theory to recognize and critique underlying assumptions and paradigms related in exclusion and inequity, and inform working for change that prioritizes building communities, structures and policies grounded in justice/equity. This course is grounded in critical ethnic studies and third world feminisms.