AAS 1020 - Introduction to Social Justice and Decoloniality

Credits: 3

Description: This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary fields of Social Justice and Decolonial Studies through interdisciplinary perspectives, methods, and approaches. Students learn about privilege, power, and oppression and their relationships to race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This course asks complex and difficult questions regarding colonialism, decoloniality, sovereignty, and agency. It offers students opportunities to study social movements, and engage in social justice and decolonial praxis.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.

General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity

Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 1020, GWS 1020, NAS 1020