COR 230D 2 - CONVERSATIONS ON RACE

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3

This course offers a forum for students to unpack and explore the many dimensions of race in the United States and the ongoing challenges of building inclusive communities. Students will examine the ways in which race has been constructed and how it has functioned in the United States, both historically and currently. Additionally, they will have conversations with racial justice activists, organizers and others working on issues of racial justice. As part of the COR program that threads throughout a student’s time at Edgewood, this course holds to the COR guiding questions as a frame, prompting students to analyze their own place in the larger narrative about race, and facilitating key spaces of community engagement.

Edgewood COR courses provide an integrative framework for students to understand themselves, become aware of the needs of the world, and develop the gifts they have been given to create a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world.