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Power, Privilege, and Inequity Certificate
In the contemporary United States, we are increasingly called upon to simultaneously engage with multiple ideas and diverse peoples while addressing complex problems related to power, privilege, and inequity. When unprepared to address these issues, we often, unknowingly, perpetuate these problems.
This Certificate prepares students to identify power, privilege, and inequity as central organizing principles of human experience within the United States. Students who complete this certificate will be able to do the following.
This Certificate prepares students to identify power, privilege, and inequity as central organizing principles of human experience within the United States. Students who complete this certificate will be able to do the following.
- Identify and deconstruct the individual, institutional, and ideological systems of power, privilege and inequity.
- Critically analyze one' s own multiple identities within the context of power, privilege and inequity.
- Critically examine and describe the social, political and historical construction of identity and difference with regard to sex, gender, race, class, sexuality, age, and ability.
This certificate would be earned along with any two-year degree, and would be awarded upon graduation.
Power, Privilege, and Inequity (AC)
Core Courses
Each core course below is required. Students must earn a minimum grade of “C.”
ECE 133
3 cr.
ENGL 175
5 cr.
SOC 131
3 cr.
WS 101
5 cr.
WS 220
5 cr.
WS 225
3 cr.
Elective Courses
Choose one of the following:
ASL 125
5 cr.
ENGL 140
3 cr.
ENGL 176
4 cr.
ENGL 254
3 cr.
ENGL 267
3 cr.
HIST&215
5 cr.
HIST&219
5 cr.
HIST 275
5 cr.
Total Required Credits: 27-29