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.
4. LYE - Last Year Experience: express their own accountability to and participation in all levels of community and will determine how to leverage their own gifts, skills, and resources to work towards racial and social justice.

• AFR 200 - Introduction to Africana Studies (4 Cr.)
• COM 213 - Making Sense of Popular Culture (4 Cr.)
• COM 311 - Queer Film and Media (4 Cr.)
• COM 325 - Women and Film (4 Cr.)
• CPEB 201 - Baltimore ‘68: What has Changed 50 Years Later? (4 Cr.)
• CPED 202 - Disease and Discrimination: the toll of inequality on Human Health (4 Cr.)
• ED 104 - Child and Adolescent Development (4 Cr.)
• ENG 236 - Latina Literature across Borders (2 Cr.)
• ENG 285 - Contemporary Literature From India, Africa, and Australia (4 Cr.)
• ENG 392 - Contemporary Literary Theory (4 Cr.)
• ES 230 - Political Ecology: Culture, Politics, and Environmental Change (4 Cr.)
• HIS 108 - Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Slavery (4 Cr.)
• HIS 210 - Survey: Early American History (4 Cr.)
• HIS 211 - Survey: Modern American History (4 Cr.)
• HIS 235 - American Revolution (4 Cr.)
• HIS 260 - Slavery, the Civil War, & Reconstruction (4 Cr.)
• JS 114 - Jewish Humor (4 Cr.)
• JS 215 - Anti-Semitism (4 Cr.)
• LAM 105 - Introduction to Latin American Studies (4 Cr.)
• LAM 236 - Latina Literature across Borders (2 Cr.)
• PCE 253 - Haitian History and the Culture of Resistence (4 Cr.)
• PSC 215 - Anti-Semitism (4 Cr.)
• PSC 259 - African Politics (4 Cr.)
• PSY 219 - Black Psychology (4 Cr.)
• RLG 239 - Religion and Politics in America (4 Cr.)
• RLG 266 - Introduction to Buddhism (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 275 - Language, Power, and Identity (4 Cr.)
• SP 230 - Intermediate Conversation and Composition (4 Cr.)
• SP 230S - Intermediate Conversation and Compositions with Community-Based Learning (4 Cr.)
• SP 230V - Intermediate Conversation and Composition with On-line Component (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.)
• SP 361 - Spanish in the Media (4 Cr.)
• SP 363 - Spanish in the Workplace: Language and Culture (4 Cr.)
• SP 365 - The Intrepid Dialectologist: Learning Spanish Through Dialects and Community-Based Learning (4 Cr.)
• WGS 311 - Queer Film and Media (4 Cr.)
• WGS 325 - Women and Film (4 Cr.)