AP/HREQ 1040 6.00 – Power & Society: Critical Issues in Social Justice

AP/HREQ 1040 6.00

Power & Society: Critical Issues in Social Justice

(Cross-listed as AP/SOSC 1040 6.00)

This course introduces the concept of power from a critical human rights perspective, as expressed in social institutions and ideologies such as patriarchy, consumerism, culture, and through issues of injustice including oppression, war, and environmental destruction. Human society is understood as the product of powerful and competing social forces, and undergoes a process of continuous change due to power dynamics.

Note: Approved SOSC General Education course for LA&PS. This course will not count for major credit in HREQ.