Taught By:
Becki Hornung
Associate Professor & Program Director
Social Work Department
Carthage College
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Course Description:
This course is being redesigned but here's the existing course description:
This course introduces students to foundational critical theories in deconstructing one’s identity, privilege, and oppression. Utilizing these critical theories, students will examine people's experiences with intersecting identities and identify how policies, laws, and culture impact different groups. Using a historical lens, this course examines how social injustices were created and perpetuated within the U.S. students will critically evaluate systems and institutions that maintain inequities and discrimination by understanding historical contexts. Students will engage in self-awareness, build critical consciousness, and develop culturally sensitive practices to help manage bias, privilege, and institutionalized discrimination within their fields of study.
