Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
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Read a variety of literary and social texts addressing social justice in a domestic and global setting.
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Explicate key concepts of social justice issues and movements in different areas of the world.
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Conduct research using library databases and the open internet; identify and analyze credible scholarly and popular sources in response to a topic question; practice information literacy by thinking critically about rhetorical choice, authorial authority, journalistic integrity, publication bias, and platform ownership (IL);
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Identify the ethical values present in globally diverse social justice movements and locate these values in historical texts addressing human rights (E);
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Understand the identities of diverse peoples as socially constructed; recognize the way in which different aspects of identity (such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, etc.) intersect and are privileged or marginalized in various cultural contexts, in the U.S. and abroad (GC);
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Synthesize course readings, independent research, and personal experience in a proposal argument addressing a social justice issue (IL).