Subject: Diversity Leadership (MADL)

CRN: 22464

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

  David Lawrence, Lucy Saliger

In this course, students will begin to understand race as a social and political construct with cultural resonance that has the power to shape where and how people live, their social conditions, and their ability to access humane existence. Drawing from disciplines such as ethnic, Black, and indigenous studies, as well as cultural studies, critical race studies, and Black feminist theorizing, this course will introduce students to race as a constructed idea that is not biologically founded yet is very powerful and real. Students will engage ideas about race and identity as more than just attitudes or biases that can be easily changed, but as constructed realities embedded in systems and institutions of everyday life. Most importantly, we will think about and discuss strategies for resisting ideologies and understanding the ways these ideologies are dangerous and limiting for everyone who accepts them without critique – not just those who are victimized by their systematic oppression.

2.5 Credits

Subject: Diversity Leadership (MADL)

CRN: 22337

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

  Patricia Maddox, Jerry Husak

This course explores the convergence of sociology and biology in how we define gender, sex, sexual orientation, and sexual behavior. Topics are examined in developmental order from conception to adulthood and include current issues relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community and society at-large with particular emphasis on applications to the workplace.

2.5 Credits