Race, Power, and Perspective

Race, Power, and Perspective

The Race, Power, and Perspective Requirement integrates Goucher College’s values of diversity, social justice, and global citizenship by asking students not only to recognize difference but to explore the power structures behind those differences.

Through engagement in the following distinct experiences that ordinarily map onto the four years of a Goucher education, students will accomplish the progressive learning outcomes of this requirement:

1. First Year Experience: articulate the connections between identity (including opportunities and experiences) and perspectives and reflect critically on their own biases and those of others.
2. Completion of a designated course across the curriculum (typically sophomore year): understand the institutional, cultural, and structural factors of race, power, and privilege that shape perspective and experience.
3. Study abroad with accompanying course or online dialogue: develop emotional skills necessary to engage with those different from oneself with awareness of and respect for cultural and racial differences and empathy for the different experiences of others and.

• AFR 200 - Introduction to Africana Studies (4 Cr.)
• ARB 230 - Intro to Modern Arab Culture: Dissenting Voices, Liberating Visions (4 Cr.)
• CPEB 205 - Disease and Discrimination, Sociology Focus (4 Cr.)
• CPEB 252 - Individuals, Groups, and Institutions: Understanding Identity and Working Towards Change (4 Cr.)
• CPEC 250 - Where, When, and How do We Belong?: Citizenship through Space and Time (4 Cr.)
• CPEC 254 - Do Gooders and the Failure of Humanitarian Aid: Ideology, Ethics and Future (4 Cr.)
• ED 104 - Child and Adolescent Development (4 Cr.)
• ES 230 - Feminist Political Ecology: Culture, Politics, Environmental Change (4 Cr.)
• FR 250 - Introduction to French Transnational Studies (4 Cr.)
• HIS 108 - Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Slavery (4 Cr.)
• HIS 200 - Introduction to Africana Studies (4 Cr.)
• HIS 210 - Survey: Early American History (4 Cr.)
• HIS 211 - Survey: Modern American History (4 Cr.)
• HIS 260 - Slavery, the Civil War, & Reconstruction (4 Cr.)
• HIS 273 - African American History II (4 Cr.)
• LAM 105 - Introduction to Latin American Studies (4 Cr.)
• LIT 223 - African American Women Writers (4 Cr.)
• LIT 285 - Contemporary Literature from India, Africa, and Australia (4 Cr.)
• LIT 392 - Contemporary Literary Theory (4 Cr.)
• PCE 231 - Special Topics in International Film and Literature (4 Cr.)
• PHL 327 - Bootlicking and Other Authoritarian Pathologies (4 Cr.)
• PSC 327 - Bootlicking and Other Authoritarian Pathologies (4 Cr.)
• PSY 224 - International Psychology (4 Cr.)
• AMS 239 - Religion, Law, and Politics in America (4 Cr.)
• SOA 220 - Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations (4 Cr.)
• SOA 245 - Wealth, Power, and Prestige (4 Cr.)
• SOA 255 - Political Anthropology (4 Cr.)
• SOA 271 - Social Movements (4 Cr.)
• SP 235 - Advanced Conversation and Composition (4 Cr.)
• SP 322 - Survey of Latin-American and Peninsular Literature and Culture (4 Cr.)
• SP 339 - The Critical Pedagogue: Teaching Spanish as a Cross-Cultural Transformative Process (4 Cr.)
• VMC 215 - Museums, Exhibitions, and the History of Collecting (4 Cr.)
• WGS 100 - Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality in American Society (4 Cr.)
• WGS 223 - African American Women Writers (4 Cr.)
• WGS 335 - Gender Identity, Expression, and the Body (4 Cr.)
• WGS 253 - Haitian History and the Culture of Resistance (4 Cr.)
• WGS 306 - Power and Privilege in the United States (4 Cr.)