CORE 311 - Identity, Power, Equity and Social Justice in the Bay Area (IPE)

Course Meeting Days & Times: MTThF, 9:15 AM-11:45:00 AM

Instructor: Manolo Callahan

Email: mc85@stmarys-ca.edu

Lab Fee: TBA

Course Description: 

This course will offer a social justice-oriented approach to personal and professional spheres of life central to the SMC mission and vital to leading an increasingly diverse society in the United States. This course will serve as a guide to the history of social justice in the Bay Area (and beyond). Students will learn about leaders in various social justice movements in the past and visit important landmarks that represent social change in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Learning Goal

Students will learn to examine different forms of diversity and study how identities work together and against each other to produce the lived experience. They will also learn how power functions in communities and the workplace and what it means to promote equity. They will accomplish this by critically examining social categories of identities, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, (dis)ability, immigration status, language, and/or religion in the U.S.

Learning Outcomes

The following learning outcomes will be used for course designation and assessment of student learning.

IPE Learning Outcomes: Students will…

1. Critically examine the intersectionality of two or more socially constructed identities, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, (dis)ability, immigration status, language, and/or religion in the U.S.; and

2. Articulate how such socially constructed identities reflect(s) structures of power that affect society and equity.