SO 260 - Race and Ethnicity

Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

College Level Prerequisites: None

Description: This course focuses on national issues of race, ethnicity, gender and social class, in the context of the developing global economy. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students will apply historical, sociological, medical and economic theories to issues of multiculturalism in the United States. This course is designed to equip any interested student with the intellectual skill and social theory necessary to understand issues of cultural diversity. Using theoretical perspectives developed in this course, each of the United State’s major ethnic and racial groups as well as future demographic trends are discussed.

Department Consent: No Consent

General Education Distribution Category Met: Social Sciences- Learning and literature concerned with individual and societal relationships. A branch of science that deals with how people manage, interpret, or engage individuals, groups, institutions, societies, and cultures, etc.