Proposing Faculty Member: Theodore Randall
Description: The course describes and explains contemporary racial and ethnic relations in the United States and world at large. This is accomplished by discussing the fallacy of the concept of race, contemporary and future projections of global and national racial and ethnic diversity, the diversity within the popular designated racial and ethnic groups, the major factors that shape racial and ethnic relations, the adverse aspects of racial and ethnic relations, and the potential solutions to these adverse aspects of racial and ethnic relations. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to racial and ethnic relations primarily from the fields of anthropology, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. Upon the completion of the course, the students will have attained the knowledge of the essential concepts, data, and theory necessary to better understand how contemporary racial and ethnic relations shape economics, education, health, religion, politics, and interpersonal relationships. This knowledge in turn can be used to reduce those inequalities attributed to these racial and ethnic relations.