Course Syllabus

 

Instructors:
Heike Peckruhn

Ted Vial

E-mail: 
hpeckruhn@iliff.edu

tvial@iliff.edu

Course Description

Identity, Power, and Difference cultivates students’ ability to engage in social and theological analysis, particularly about social structures, ideologies, and embodied practices that lead to domination or oppression. It helps students think critically about their own social locations, their power and privilege, and what effect these have on their professional and vocational contexts (as pastors, ministers, educators, and religious and non-profit community leaders). The course takes the perspective that this sort of analysis is crucial to serving effectively in today’s complex social environment. It encourages students to deepen their commitment to dismantling privilege and oppression at individual, institutional, and societal levels. It also seeks to help students move within their varied levels of awareness about matters of power and difference to action.

This course embodies Iliff’s core commitments to respect difference and foster just relationships both in this context and beyond the school.

 

All readings are posted on canvas. No books need to be purchased for this course. 

Degree Learning Goals

* Note: The instructors reserve the right to change the syllabus or other parts of the course as needed.

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