Students entering in 2015-16 or later must satisfy the Knowledge, Identity, and Power (KNOW) graduation requirement by completing one course that has been approved to meet that requirement based on the Learning Objectives and Guidelines that follow.
Learning Objectives
Courses in Knowledge, Identity, and Power (KNOW) provide a distinct site for students to understand the dynamics and consequences of power differentials, inequalities, and divisions among social groups and the relationship of these issues to the representation and production of knowledge. In these courses, students also develop their capacity to communicate meaningfully about power, disparity, and diversity of experiences and identities.
Guidelines
- These courses promote critical engagement with the causes, nature, and consequences of individual, institutional, cultural, and/or structural dynamics of disparity, power, and privilege. These courses provide opportunities for students to:
- engage in dialogue about issues of knowledge, identity, and power, and
- consider linkages between their social positions and course themes related to these issues.
- KNOW courses may also fulfill other program or graduation requirements.
Approved Courses
The following courses have been approved as satisfying the Knowledge, Identity, and Power requirement.
- AFAM 101 Introduction to African American Studies
- AFAM 201 Methods in African American Studies
- AFAM 265 Thinking Ethically
- AFAM 304 Capital and Captivity
- AFAM 310 African Diaspora Experience
- AFAM 355 African American Women in American History
- AFAM 360 Civil Rights and Culture
- AFAM 370 Communication and Diversity
- AFAM 375 The Harem Renaissance
- ASIA 344 Asia in Motion
- BIOL 362 Nanobiology
- BUS 365 Cultural Diversity and Law
- COMM 361 Organizing Difference
- COMM 370 Communication and Diversity
- COMM 372 Contemporary Media Culture: Deconstructing Disney
- CONN 334 Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa and Beyond
- CONN 358 The Mississippi River
- EDUC 419 American Schools Inside and Out
- EDUC 420 Multiple Perspectives on Classroom Teaching and Learning
- ENGL 242 Introduction to Native American Literature
- ENGL 247 Introduction to Popular Genres
- ENGL 372 History of Rhetorical Theory
- ENVR 326 People, Politics, and Parks
- ENVR 343 Buddhist Environmentalism
- FREN 391 African Women Writers
- GDS 211 Introduction to Global Development
- GERM 300 German Cinema of the Weimar Republic and Under National Socialism, 1919-1945
- GERM 305 Culture in the Third Reich
- GLAM 322 Race & Ethnicity in the Ancient World
- GLAM 325 Sex & Gender in Classical Antiquity
- GLAM 330 Theories of Myth
- GQS 201 Introduction to Gender, Queer, and Feminist Studies
- GQS 220 What is Queer?
- GQS 327 Queer Cultures
- HIST 383 Borderlands: La Frontera: The U.S.-Mexico Border
- HON 214 Interrogating Inequality
- HUM 327 Queer Cultures
- HIST 307 The Crusades
- HUM 368 A Precious Barbarism: Enlightenment, Ideology, and Colonialism
- HIST 375 History of Sport in US Society
- IPE 101 Introduction to International Political Economy
- IPE 211 Introduction to Global Development
- LAS 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies
- LTS 200 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
- MUS 223 Women in Music
- MUS 393 Introduction to Secondary Music Education
- PG 104 Introduction to Political Theory
- PG 315 Law and Society
- PG 326 People, Politics, and Parks
- PG 346 Race in the American Political Imagination
- PG 390 Gender and Philosophy
- PHIL 106 Language, Knowledge, and Power
- PHIL 389 Race and Philosophy
- PHIL 390 Gender and Philosophy
- PSYC 265 Cross-Cultural Psychology
- PSYC 270 Psychology of Diversity
- PSYC 373 Perceiving Self and Other
- REL 265 Thinking Ethically
- REL 270 Religion, Social Movements and (in)Justice in the United States
- REL 307 Prisons, Gender, and Education
- REL 323 Islam, Gender & Sexuality
- SOAN 101 Introduction to Sociology
- SOAN 102 Introduction to Anthropology
- SOAN 215 Race and Ethnic Relations
- SOAN 303 Contemporary Immigration, Race, and Immigration Regimes in the U.S.
- SOAN 370 Disability, Identity, and Power
- SPAN 210 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
- SSI1 104 Why Travel?: Tales from Far and Wide
- SSI1 106 Cleopatra: History and Myth
- SSI1 135 Hurricane Katrina and the History of New Orleans
- SSI2 185 Queer Case Files
- STS 324 Science and Race: A History
- STS 344 Ecological Knowledge in Historical Perspective
- THTR 250 World Theatre I: African Diaspora
- THTR 252 World Theatre II: Asian Theatres
Resources for Students
Resources for Faculty
- Teaching and Learning Resources for Faculty (Soundnet).