This seminar will explore diversity, broadly conceived, and the causes and consequences of individual, societal, and political responses to diversity. Course materials and discussions will focus primarily on economic and ethnic diversity within communities, both in the United States and abroad. As part of this course, we will compare the way that diversity has been understood differently in different societies. Primarily, however, we will concern ourselves with the way that different societies and polities respond to having various groups within their communities. Thus, the causes and consequences of individual responses (such as prejudice and community service), societal responses (such as ethnic conflict and harmony) and political responses (such as affirmative action and more assimilation-oriented policies) will be studied. There is a service-learning component to this course. Thus, all students will participate in service at a community institution that is in some way devoted to responding to community diversity (whether that be in the educational, nongovernmental or governmental realm, among others). |
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