Education · Boston College
This course engages the topic of social oppression and transformation from social and psychological perspectives. Using research, scholarship, and creative work from psychology, education, sociology, history, and popular culture, students will explore institutional, ideological, interpersonal, and individual aspects of oppression across four social locations--social class, gender, race, and sexual orientation. For each location, students will start with their own stories of privilege and oppression; move to an empathic engagement with the stories of others; broaden to understand the way that s
