Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: RACE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): POLI 395

Description: Study of minority group politics and how race structures contemporary U.S. politics. Includes myths and realities of minority groups, symbolic politics and race, pluralism as a model of U.S. democracy, the intersection of class, race, and gender, civil rights movements, group consciousness, public opinion regarding minorities, and responses of national institutions to race issues.