SOCW 206 - Intro to Gender & Diversity St

3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to help students develop a critical framework for analyzing and exploring the nature of social diversity, including privilege and oppression, with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, age, religion, and mental/physical abilities. It provides tools for ethical analysis of questions relating to the individual and collective experience of disenfranchisement as well as resiliency in society. Students will be introduced to interdisciplinary scholarship that examines oppression and privilege through the lens of society\2019s social institutions.

Course Attributes: Diversity Flag / DCR, ERS Focus Elective, Gender & Diversity Studies, Peace & Justice Studies Minor, Social Science Elect New Core

Levels: Graduate Undergraduate

College of Professional Sci Social Work