Spring 2019  |  SOC 3211W Section 001: American Race Relations (55193)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
AAS 3211W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 120
Enrollment Status:
Open (48 of 49 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the contours of race in the post-civil rights era United States. This course will focus on race relations in today's society with a historical overview of the experiences of various racial and ethnic groups in order to help explain their present-day social status. The class will also class consider the future of race relations in the U.S. and evaluate remedies to racial inequality.
Class Notes:
Click on this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jmbell+SOC3211W+Spring2019
Class Description:
This course is designed to help students begin to develop their own informed perspectives on American racial "problems" by introducing them to the ways that sociologists deal with race, ethnicity, race relations and racism. We will begin by talking generally about the basic structure of racial formations in the contemporary U.S., the mechanisms by which they are reproduced, and possibilities for resistance and change. In the second part of the course, we will turn to the issue of popular representations of people of color in the US. We will look specifically at how African American, Asian American Latino and Native American women and men are portrayed in popular culture. We will look at how these images are related to racial inequality and how they shape the way that we think about particular groups in American society. In the Third part of the course, we will expand our understanding of racial and ethnic dynamics by exploring the experiences of specific groups in the U.S. and how race/ethnicity intersects with sources of stratification such as class, nationality, and gender. These units will focus especially on the experiences of Asian and Mexican immigrants. The objective in these units is both to learn more about these groups and also to consider what their experiences reveal with respect to the challenges racial and ethnic formations present for conventional, individualistic understandings of citizenship, group membership and social justice. The course will then conclude by re-considering ideas about assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism. Throughout, our goal will be to consider race both as a source of identity and social differentiation as well as a system of privilege, power and inequality affecting everyone in the society albeit in different ways.
Grading:
Writing intensive course, 2 exams, 3 papers, in class writing.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice and short answer
Class Format:
40% lecture, 30% film, 30% discussion
Workload:
50-75 pages of reading per week on average. Less at the beginning, more at the end. 3 papers, one of which will be revised over the course of the semester, in-class writing assignments.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55193/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2017

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