Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Courses

DEI 100 (3-0-3)

Identity, Power, and Equity in Modern Life

This course is designed to increase student awareness, knowledge, and understanding of such core concepts as race, class, gender, identity, difference, and intersectionality. It explores how power and privilege can influence institutional and societal structures and lead to oppression, poverty, marginalization, alienation, and inequity. It examines strategies that have been used to encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion and to promote social justice. The course asks students to apply the principles of rights, access, equity, and autonomous participation to the analysis of a past or current social justice movement, or to apply core concepts and principles in the development and sharing of a social justice action-plan.