Jul 07, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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POLS 4752 - The Politics of Intersectionality
Examines the emergence and prevalence of ‘intersectionality’ as a theoretical framework, political practice, and terrain of lived experience. Intersectionality signifies the simultaneity of identities and is commonly considered a robust approach to examining complicated, lived experiences. Intersectionality illuminates how multiple forms of disempowerment intersect and interact with one another, and captures the ways such intersections lead to deeper and more complex forms of subordination. Examines how a person who suffers from racism, poverty, and sexism has a much different lived experience than a person who may experience racist oppression, but whose sex and class status are privileged according to societal norms and expectations.
Requisites: 6 Hours in AAS or 6 hours in POLS or 6 hours in WGS
Credit Hours: 3
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 develop a sophisticated lens through which to address multiple oppressions, thereby avoiding oversimplified perspectives that emerge from either/or frameworks or ‘competing intersectionality’ frames for understanding discrimination.
- Students will develop an understanding of additive and interactional (or intra-sectional) approaches to multiple oppressions.
- Students will understand the differences between intersectional and identity-based approaches to oppression.
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