Race, Power, & Perspective

Goucher Commons Requirements

Program Goals

  1. PERSPECTIVE AND IDENTITY: Students will articulate the connections between identity (including opportunities and experiences) and perspectives and reflect critically on their own biases and those of others.

  2. POWER AND CONTEXT: Students will understand the institutional, cultural, and structural factors of race, power, and privilege that shape perspective and experience.

  3. EMPATHY AND ENGAGEMENT: Students will develop emotional skills necessary to engage with those different from oneself with awareness of and respect for cultural and racial differences and empathy for the different experiences of others.

  4. INTEGRATION AND IMAGINATION: Students will express their own accountability to and participation in all levels of community and will determine how to leverage their own gifts, skills, and resources to work towards racial and social justice.

Race, Power, & Perspective Courses

 

Updated: January 2023