SOC 325 - Race and Ethnic Relations

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D; Diversity
The sociological study of race and ethnicity. Examines racial and ethnic stratification in the United States, including each student’s own position within the nexus of race, ethnicity, and society.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better; and SOC 100.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences, Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Study the theoretical position that race and ethnicity are socially constructed.
Understand that the stratification of race and ethnicity is a very real and tangible phenomenon that differentially creates barriers and opportunities that in turn effect life chances.
Learn the difference between individual and institutional racism and the effects of each.
Examine personal positions within racial and ethnic stratification.
Acquire tools to combat both individual and institutional racism.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.