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UCOR 1600 13 20FQ Urban Wasteland
Urban Wastelands is in ‘Module 1’ of the University Core (“Engaging Academic Inquiry”). “’Module 1’ is a move into the academy, helping students develop critical academic skills and learn how major disciplinary approaches of the academy make sense of the world, while learning important content from particular disciplines within each approach” (Seattle University Core Curriculum). Students will learn key theories, key thinkers, and key methodological skills associated with the sociological investigation of urban spaces—focusing in the United States. You can expect lectures and discussions, group assignments, films, guest speakers, critical-writing assignments, and in-class as well as out-of-class assignments. It will be essential for you to take ownership of your learning experience.
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SOCL 3320 01 20FQ Race and Ethnicity
Race & Ethnicity is concerned with how and why the United States of America became a race-constructed society. According to the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (pisab.org), the United States is a society created from “the imposition of the ideology of racism.” As racialized subjects, living in a white supremacist society (such as the U.S.), our bodies, our lived experiences, and our ways of being/knowing are conditioned by this dominant ideology and maintained by a racialized arrangement of power. In short, race, racism, whiteness, and white supremacy are inescapable, but they do not have to exist permanently.