Jul 07, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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POLS 4739 - Politics of Race
Race plays a central role in shaping American national identity, political institutions, and distribution of resources. Beginning with the perspective that race is central to the U.S. political order, this course pays special attention to American political, economic, and legal institutions as products and sources of racial formation. This course investigates how politics and policy continually reproduce racial inequality and difference in the U.S. context and additionally analyzes how movements for racial equality and democracy likewise shape American politics. We explore the politics of race across four topics in contemporary American politics: climatological and health crises, immigration policy, elections and voting, and policing. The course additionally emphasizes speaking and listening through student co-led roundtables designed to hone students’ public speaking, presentation, and discussion-directing skills.
Requisites: 6 Hours in POLS including 2700
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Bridge: Speaking and Listening
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to analyze scholarship on the historical-political construction of race in the United States.
- Students will be able to analyze the centrality of race, racism, and anti-racist struggle for the ordinary processes of American politics.
- Students will be able to use conceptual tools and historical knowledge with which to critically assess contemporary racial politics.
- Students will be able to present organized ideas, supporting materials, and compelling arguments regarding the significance of race in American politics.
- Students will be able to provide credible, relevant, and convincing information (e.g., explanations, quotations, data, examples, and contexts) that supports the student’s presentation on relevant topics in American racial politics.
- Students will be able to engage others in direct discussion based on material they’ve presented.
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