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PHIL 355 - Race and Justice

 

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently


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

1. write clear, academically rigorous, argumentative essays;
2. read complex texts, create original arguments, analyze the arguments of others, and express these criticisms orally and in writing;
3. demonstrate knowledge of philosophical issues related to racially motivated  bias and injustice in the U.S.;
4. develop their capacities for ethical decision making, openness to the ideas of other, reflective self-awareness and a life-long curiosity about issues related to racial justice;
5. cultivate an appreciation for a diversity of ideas and values across time and for human difference in areas such as racial and ethnicity based injustices.

 

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
 

1. Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
2. Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
3. Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

 
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
 

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. 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;
4. 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.