99-151 Privilege, Responsibility, and Community
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
PRIVILEGE, RESPONSIBILITY COMMUNITY The goal of this course is to provide students of all disciplines with an introduction to issues of privilege, responsibility, and community engagement through a survey of contemporary social issues. Although a comprehensive understanding of academic subjects is fundamental to the Carnegie Mellon curriculum, few graduates leave with an equal level of awareness or knowledge of the sociocultural climate. When faced with challenges posed by controversial events on campus as well as in the local, national, and global community, many are not prepared to have open and exploratory dialogues which can inspire meaningful action toward social change. This course hopes to lay the foundation for these conversations by engaging students in an intellectual discourse around issues of identity, privilege, power, and responsibility from multiple points of view. By encouraging students to share and explore their personal perspectives on these issues, we hope to empower students to discern the cultural lenses through which they view the world, recognize the individuality of such lenses, and assume personal responsibility for effecting change within their communities. This course will be offered via videoconference and is open to students from both the Pittsburgh and Doha campuses.
Prerequisites: none listed
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