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| Semester: | Fall 2024 |
| Number: | 0101-277-001 |
| Instructor: | Giovani Burgos |
| Days: | Monday Wednesday 11:00 am - 11:50 am |
| Note: | Hybrid Online/In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise 211 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Notes: |
Cross-Listed With 0170-277. Blended, Fridays Online Asynchronous |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
How do we explain continuing inequality in the US? What has been and is the role of law in creating, maintaining, and reducing inequality? This course examines different forms of inequality, including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and disability and the use of law for civil rights and social change. (Distribution Reqs:Social Sciences) |
| Learning Goals: |
Sadly, discrimination still exists in many forms in America. It includes biases based on race, gender, ethnicity, political viewpoints, economic status, religious beliefs, age, disability and sexual orientation. As we explore these types of prejudice, we will also be deciding whether, our laws provide a standard to insure equality of all citizens, function to legalize, and thereby maintain inequality or both. Our goal is to identify types of inequality, discover their causes, discuss them from both an historical and current perspective and explore how we, as citizens,can fight to end discrimination through enforcement of existing law and pressuring our elected representatives on the local, state and federal levels to pass new laws or strengthen existing ones. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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