Course Description:
This course is designed to explore the categories of race, class, and gender in our society and the many complex issues they encompass. In the seminar we will examine such core questions as: What is a social construct? How do issues of race, class, and gender affect individual and group behavior? How do these issues of identity and power interconnect? Where/how do these categories affect societal, organizational, and personal contexts? What does such an analysis mean for you as an individual and others around you?

Analysis of the messages in mainstream media (print, music, etc.) is one of the main vehicles for critical thinking regarding the categories of race, class, and gender. Readings, personal histories, writing assignments, and media analyses provide a lens through which interns broaden their understanding of themselves, society, and their particular internship placement. Conversely, internship experiences and class discussion provide a way to evaluate ideas and theories from the reading and discussion. This interplay of theory and practice is central to the learning process of the Dynamy/Clark seminar.

Course Requirements:
1. Attend and participate in the weekly evening seminar class meeting (90 minutes).

2. Maintain active involvement in a full-time internship (including timesheet documentation), participate in internship agreement and evaluation meetings with one’s sponsor and advisor, and complete an internship project and presentation.

3. Read assigned weekly chapters from Weekly articles from Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (fifth edition, by Andersen and Collins) and selected supplemental readings.

4. Complete weekly two-page writing assignment.

5. Write final paper (seven pages]