CES 100 - Race and Ethnicity in the United States

5 CR

Previously ETHN 100.
Explore the role that race and ethnicity play in your life, your community, and the nation at large. Using multiple means of analysis (scholarship, literature, and media), we will investigate how race and ethnicity help to shape American society and identity from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Satisfies either Social Science or Humanities credit. Note: Fulfills social science or humanities requirement, not both, at BC.

Course Outcomes

Critically examine and reflect upon the role race plays in one’s own life.
Identify the ways race and ethnicity have shaped individuals, groups, and community experiences in both the past and present.
Describe how race and ethnicity are socially constructed and institutionalized in American society.

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