American Inequality is a historical reading seminar designed to enable you to achieve the following set of learning outcomes. The student who successfully completes this class will be able to clearly demonstrate the following skills and understandings in their performance. What that looks like—or the criteria used to assess the presence and depth of each outcome—is also listed below.
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1. ANALYZE the histories of race and racism in the United States.
What does this look like?
• Explain the historical experiences of nonwhite peoples in the US.
• Explain the forces, actions, and phenomenon shaping their experiences.
• Evaluate the ways people have responded to their historical contexts.
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2. CRITICALLY EVALUATE historical scholarship on race and racism.
What does this look like?
• Identify major arguments, themes, theories and/or metaphors as used by scholars.
• Analyze texts with regard to evidence, structure, and prose.
• Assess scholarly perspectives from an empathic and critical position.
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3. APPLY course knowledge toward an examination of questions of equality, equity, and justice.
What does this look like?
• Integrate knowledge from historical scholarship toward an argument.
• Evaluate present-day manifestations of these dynamics from within their historical contexts.
• Narrativize your conclusions in accordance with historical format and citation styles.
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