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Mar 19, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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SOC 211 Race and Ethnicity Credits: (3)
This course introduces students to the processes by which race and ethnic meanings (identities, cultures, prejudices, etc.) have been and continue to be constructed. In addition, this course examines the major social consequences of racial and ethnic meanings, including but not limited to discriminatory social policy, segregations, and racial and ethnic war and conflicts. Students will study and compare race and ethnicity across regions and nations in order to learn important distinctions, complexities, and qualities in the making and power of race and ethnicity.
SUNY Gen Ed Area(s): DEISJ, Social Sciences
Designation(s): Liberal Arts
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural bases of race and ethnicity and how racial and ethnic differences create sharp divisions.
- Illustrate an understanding of science’s role in the creation of racial concepts and meanings.
- Explain the process of racialization, both as a means of defining human difference and reproducing patterns of power and inequality.
- Contrast cross-cultural racialization processes, histories, and social meanings.
- Describe how racism is embedded, structurally rooted, and systematic.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the leading sociological interpretations of prejudice and discrimination.
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