Spring 2013 Description for SOCI 251

Race and ethnicity as significant components of U.S. social  structure; the cognitive and normative aspects of culture  which maintain and effect varying manifestations of social  distance, tension, prejudice and discrimination between  majority and minorities at both micro and macro levels,  nationally and internationally. This course meets  a requirement in American Cultural Studies and Justice and Peace Studies and fulfills the Human Diversity requirement in the core curriculum. Prerequisite: sophomore standing