AAL28E IDENTITIES IN A DIVERSE WORLD

This course provides students with an introduction to the concept of identity, and invites them to think about key identity facets that are relevant to living in today's world of increasing diversity. The course guides students to see identity both in terms of a micro-level psychosocial process and in terms of a more macro-level sociological process, and to think about how these two processes interact. Through various learning activities, students will explore at some depths key aspects or issues relating to identity including race and ethnicity, nation/nationalism, xenophobia and racism, assimilation and integration, multiculturalism and transnationalism, class, gender and sexuality, and cosmopolitanism(s).