Identity and Diversity

These courses use identity as a category of analysis and as subject matter, examining how its social construction reflects and determines differentials of power and opportunity. Students analyze identity groups as social agents whose biological, socialized identities and experiences are shaped by—and help shape—systems of gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, sexuality, and national power. This concentration is interested, above all, in the changing status of various identities over time and space.

Sponsored by: History and Society

Faculty Contact: Mary Godwyn

Faculty contacts serve as advisers to those students who have an interest in the given concentration; you should feel free to contact these faculty members with questions.

Required Courses

Students must take four (4) courses from the list below, at least two (2) of which must be at the 3600 level.

• AMS 3615 Borderlands
• CVA 2405 Gender Theory
• CVA 2410 Gender Studies
• CVA 2408 Cultural Anthropology
• CVA 2414 African-American Studies
• CVA 2425 Introduction to LGBTQ Cultural Studies
• CVA 2426 Immigrants, Race, and the American Promise
• CVA 2427 Strangers in Strange Lands
• CVA 2460 Living La Vida Latina
• GDR 3610 Women’s Studies
• HIS 3601 Cultural History of the European Renaissance
• HIS 3670 Sexuality and Power in Modern Society
• HIS 3682 Women in China
• HSS 2418 Introduction to Sociology
• HSS 2435 LGBT Boston
• LAW 3610 Intolerance, Culture, and the Law
• LIT 3601 Shakespeare
• LIT 3610 Gender and Economics in Three 19th Century Novels
• LVA 2447 The Stranger in Literature
• LVA 2462 Suburban America in Literature and Culture
• POL 3610 Ethno-Political Conflict
• PSY 3600 Abnormal Psychology
• SOC 3610 Minority Voices in Entrepreneurship