Dec 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog

Social Justice Overlay

Add to Folder (opens a new window)

SOC 320 - Social Inequalities


Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: Social Justice
The relationship between unequal access to economic and political resources and social locations in systems stratified by class, race, ethnicity, gender, and citizenship status.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Social Justice
Strongly Recommended Preparation: SOC 100
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


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

  1. Read and interpret various quantitative measures of inequality and poverty.
  2. Engage in open-minded discussions of diverse cultural beliefs and perspectives.
  3. Critically analyze institutional sources of inequalities and cultural representations of oppressed groups while working toward social justice.
  4. Read, integrate, and synthesize abstract sociological analyses and theories presented in peer-reviewed course materials. 


Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
 

  1. use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
  2. describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
  3. identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.



Add to Folder (opens a new window)