SOCY-294 Race and Ethnic Relations

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into College Level Reading, completion of ELAP-120 with a 2.0 or higher, or successful completion of ACRD-090, ACRD-091 or ACRD-092; SOCY-191
A study of racial and ethnic minorities and their subcultures and specific problems. Concentration on the United States as a cultural unit. Emphasis on the different effects of socializations as related to personality development within minorities.

Course Outcomes

1.	Analyze the dynamics of Intergroup relations
2.	Summarize the ways in which prejudice impacts society
3.	Analyze the various dimensions of institutional discrimination in the United States
4.	Trace the history of immigration and immigration policy in the US noting connections to world wide immigration today
5.	Discuss the assimilation patterns of white ethnics in the United States and the continued importance of both ethnicity and religious pluralism on individual identity in the U. S. today
6.	Explain the complex interaction between Native Americans and non-Natives from contact to today.
7.	Trace the history, leadership and emergence of African Americans in a white America.
8.	Assess African Americans today using the variables of education, economy, family life, housing, criminal, justice, health care and political power.
9.	Analyze the growing presence of Latinos in American society and the impact of Cuban, Central and South American immigration on the United States.
10.	Summarize the history and current dynamics of Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans in the United States.
11.	Summarize the diverse history of both Arab Americans and Muslim Americans and the current experiences of prejudice and discrimination being experienced by both groups
12.	Analyze the growth and diversity of the Asian American population in the United States
13.	Summarize the immigration patterns and experiences of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans from before the Exclusion Act to the present
14.	Summarize the history and current dynamics of Jewish Americans in the US
15.	Analyze the subordination of people in other nations on racial, linguistic, religious, national and ethnic variables