POSC303L - Politics of Prejudice

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
This course deals with the politics of racial, gender-based, ethnic, and religious prejudice. The course will study both past and recent patterns of the denial of basic human rights which were/are aided by government sponsoring, encouraging, or selectively ignoring manifestations of prejudice. The course will explore anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, oppression of blacks, “gay bashing,” suppression of women, and “ethnic cleansing” with particular emphasis on the roles of political actors, processes, and institutions. Attention will be paid to groups who sought to influence political actors and institutions to resist or to dismantle manifestations of prejudice.

Prerequisite(s): One 200-level class from any subfield