Course Syllabus

2 credits
Mondays 6 pm - 8 pm


Instructors
Felicia George
fgeorge@iliff.edu

R.J. Hernández-Díaz
rhernandez-diaz@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 facilitates critical thinking about social locations, power and privilege, and what effect these have on students' 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.

Required Texts

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London; New York: Penguin Books, 1972.

All other required texts are available in pdf format on Canvas.

Learning Objectives
Degree Learning Goals
Attendance and Participation
Reading Analysis
Sacred Agreement for Everyone (SAFE)
Critical Family Genealogy

** Please note: the syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructors.

Course Summary:

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