Challenging Inequity

Ideally, the opportunity to live a full, rewarding life would be universal. Yet in our global society, we find that whole groups of people lack access even to life’s necessities, like clean water and basic health care. How do such inequities come to be? How do distributions of power perpetuate them, shaping our experiences and even our consciousness? How have people fought for rights through both social and intellectual movements, and what can be done today to create more opportunities for all people to live full, self-determined lives? Challenging Inequity asks students to think critically and creatively about issues of power, discrimination, equality, and justice, equipping them to create meaningful opportunities for others, and themselves.

A minimum 16 credit hours, which include courses from at least three subject prefixes, from the following:

• ANTH 315 - Applied Economic Anthropology
    
• ANTH 325 - Indigenous Peoples, State and Order
    
• ANTH 365 - Mayas, Aztecs and Their Neighbors: Heart of the Earth
    
• ARTH 310 - American Art
    
• ARTH 312 - African American Art
    
• ARTH 314 - Latin American Art
    
• BIOL 108 - Water, Food and Sex
    
• COMM 317 - Intercultural Communication
    
• COMM 389 - Gender, Sexuality and Mass Media
    
• ECON 230 - Feminist Economics
    
• ECON 380 - Economic Development
    
• EDUC 101 - Foundations of Teaching and Learning
    
• EDUC 320 - Equitable Learning Environments: Elementary  
• EDUC 322 - Equitable Learning Environments: HS/MS  
• ENGL 232 - Black Narrative
   
• ENGL 236 - Latina/O/X Literature  
• ENGL 240 - Beginning Poetry  
• ENGL 242 - Beginning Creative Nonfiction  
• ENGL 244 - Beginning Fiction  
• ENGL 246 - Beginning Playwriting  
• ENGL 234 - Gender and Literary Feminisms
    
• ENGL 332 - Multicultural American Literature
    
• GSST 100 - Introduction to Sex, Gender and Sexuality
    
• GSST 230 - Women and the Bible  
• GSST 234 - Gender and Literary Feminisms
    
• GSST 340 - Global Views: Women in Science
    
• GSST 350 - Gender and World Religions
    
• GSST 370 - Feminism, Gender, Queer Theory  
• GSST 389 - Gender, Sexuality and Mass Media
    
• HIST 112 - African American History  
• HIST 114 - History of the American West
    
• HIST 116 - Lincoln and the Civil War Era  
• HIST 118 - United States in the 1960s
    
• HIST 120 - Chicago History
    
• HIST 140 - Ireland: Famine to Freedom  
• HIST 180 - Global Power and the Middle East
    
• HIST 208 - History and Hollywood Films  
• HIST 222 - U.S. and Illinois to 1865
    
• HIST 224 - U.S. and Illinois from 1865–1945
    
• HIST 226 - U.S. and Illinois since 1945
    
• HIST 267 - Twentieth-Century East Asia: Industry, Empire and War
    
• HIST 270 - India, Empire and Violence  
• HIST 280 - Nineteenth-Century Europe: Sex and Mass Hysteria
    
• HIST 285 - Twentieth-Century Europe: Hitler Versus Stalin  
• HIST 310 - Immigration and U.S. Ethnic Identity
   
• HPST 236 - Latina/O/X Literature  
• LEAD 300 - Social Entrepreneurship
    
• MKTG 120 - Consumerism and Black Culture  
• PHIL 240 - Philosophy of Law
    
• PHIL 270 - Aesthetics
    
• PHIL 320 - Feminist Philosophy
    
• PHIL 340 - Social and Political Philosophy  
• POLS 203 - Law, Politics and Society
    
• POLS 310 - The American Electoral Process
    
• POLS 312 - Women in American Politics
    
• POLS 336 - Rights, Liberties and Justice
    
• POLS 337 - From Slavery to Prisons: Race and the Carceral State  
• PSYC 330 - Community Psychology
    
• RELG 225 - Urban Ethics and Religion
    
• RELG 230 - Women and the Bible
    
• RELG 235 - Sexuality and Christianity  
• RELG 245 - Hollywood, Values and Religion
    
• RELG 270 - Judaism
    
• RELG 350 - Gender and World Religions
    
• SBEN 250 - Coffee: From Seed to Cup
    
• SGBH 201 - Philosophy and the Human Condition  
• SGBH 311 - Philosophy of Race and Gender
    
• SGBH 326 - Black, Brown and Beige: The Spirit of African American Arts  
• SGBS 102 - The Western Political Tradition  
• SGBS 201 - Critical Theories of Society and Politics
    
• SGBS 202 - Social Formation and Social Transformation
    
• SGBS 311 - Philosophy of Race and Gender
    
• SGBS 326 - Black, Brown and Beige: The Spirit of African American Arts  
• SOCI 100 - Life Chances and Choices: Introduction to Sociology
    
• SOCI 212 - Social Class: Get Ahead/Fall Behind
    
• SOCI 220 - Crime, Law and Society
    
• SOCI 221 - Youth Justice, Crime and Law
    
• SOCI 344 - Sport in Society
    
• THEA 304 - Theatre History and Literature I  
• THEA 434 - Devised, Radical and Community-Based