Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours
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Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or consent of instructor
Description: Investigates philosophical issues concerning race and gender. Includes the role of cultural and biological criteria in defining these concepts; roles of race and gender in personal identity; nature of racism, sexism, and their variants; and policy implications such as affirmative action and the civil status of homosexual relationships.
Cross-listing: Cross-listed with GSST 108.