SW2501W

This course encourages students to critically engage with society in a way that attempts to balance important theoretical concepts of social justice, students own lived-experiences, and praxis (knowledge translated to action that is reflected on in a group setting). Course moves beyond definitions of power, privilege, and oppression, and is an exploration of themes like neutrality and neoliberalism, phenomenology, critical pedagogy, saviorism, the colonized mind, international complicity in violence, and more. The course also examines current and historical social justice activists and change movements. To do this, we use many alternative (non-mainstream) social justice sources, story-telling, and student-led learning. The course is collaborative, discussion, and action based. In addition, this course includes instruction and assignments that advance the writing skill sets of students, and therefore there is an emphasis on writing process and feedback.

Race, Power, and Justice in the United States

Every Fall & Spring