SOC 314
The Social Ecology of Racial and Gender Inequity Spring 2019
Division II Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed WGSS 314
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Why the political furor over monuments? What would a feminist city look like? Does gentrification promote racial justice? This course trains your focus on space and place, asking you to take a socioecological perspective on race and gender. In it, we examine how ideas about race and gender shape space as well as how the location, demographic composition and design of cities, neighborhoods, parks, and uncultivated spaces reinforce ideas about race and gender and racial/gender power relations. What is distinctive about this perspective, as compared with other analytical lenses through which we approach race and gender, and what is its value? What does a socioecological perspective suggest about the efficacy of different types of efforts to facilitate greater equity in social relations?
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: none
Expected: 20
Class#: 4050
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class facilitation, critical responses (four 2- to 3-page responses), late-term exam, final essay (10-12 pages) or essay-equivalent (video essay, photo essay, or other)
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors
Distributions: Division II Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes: DPE: This course introduces students to social psychology's socioecological approach, giving them a lens which can help them understand how important axes of difference--race and gender--are socially constructed as well as the stubborn persistence of racial and gender power differentials. Students in this course will be required to apply this lens to their own experience, as well as to discuss difficult questions about different obstacles and potential paths to greater equity in social relations.
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
WGSS 314 Division II SOC 314 Division II
Attributes: WGSS Racial Sexual + Cultural Diversity Courses

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