2025-2026 Catalog | Page 396

SEM-115
Examining ' Post-Racial ' America
This interactive, multi-media course will examine the idea and feasibility of the post-racial America concept through a cultural and political lens, and will challenge students to develop and write about their own related theory / belief system based on readings, videos, in-class or online discussions covered in the course. The following topics will be covered: 2016 Presidential Election, Tea Party Movement, Black Lives Matter, # OscarsSoWhite Campaign, White Privilege, race blindness. This course focuses on racism, one of the five critical concerns of the Sisters of Mercy: Earth, Immigration, Non-violence, Racism, and Women. This course meets the University ' s definition of writing intensive.
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