Power, Privilege, and Difference

This graduate seminar will foster critical understanding regarding the interaction of cultural difference, power, privilege, and communication. Students will engage with a range of academic and popular texts in order to determine how gender, ethnicity, race, socio-economic class, age, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, and other manifestations of difference appear and are negotiated in mediated, corporate, and relational contexts. The workload for the course will include weekly critical reading reflections, active participation in and leadership of class discussions, and a final research paper.