Transcript title
Race, Class, and Gender
Credits
4
Grading mode
Standard letter grades
Total contact hours
40
Lecture hours
40
Course Description
Addresses systems of privilege and domination as interrelated and shaped by historical, institutional, political, and social forces. Applies sociological theories to addressing the intersection between race, class, gender, and other aspects of our identities and structural conditions.
Course learning outcomes
1. Analyze the intersections between social class, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other areas of difference.
2. Examine cultural and social assumptions that influence the social and institutional experiences of various social groups in society.
3. Apply sociological perspective to course readings, case studies, and historical and contemporary events.
Content outline
- Sociological perspective
- The matrix of domination
- Social construction and sociological analysis of race
- Intersection theory
- Whiteness and white privilege
- Social construction of sociological analysis of gender
- Social construction of sociological analysis of race
- Colorblind racism
Required materials
All readings available online.
General education/Related instruction lists
- Human Relations
- Social Science
- Cultural Literacy
