Course Description: This course examines how social and cultural contexts impact the formation and enforcement of laws, policies, and legal doctrine. We ask, how does the law define criminals, families, citizens, the nation, and gender? Rather than being clear-cut and timeless, the law defines these categories in ways that are racialized, gendered, classed, and historically contingent. Within this context, we examine how different racialized and gendered communities are denied, seek, and achieve justice.
Course Narrative: For this course, HCOM 343, I was able to understand and evaluate how social identities including ethnicity, race, class, religion, gender, sexuality, and/or ability might influence [relate to] people’s lived experiences, their cultural production and practices, and the social problems that shape their contexts. We were able to analyze social issues using social science vocabulary, concepts, and theoretical perspectives. We formulate social science research questions. This class was really interesting because we saw a lot of problems society still faces today, like discrimination, racism. I was able to do an individual final project presentation which was about the problems Afro Latinos people still face these days and how barely in this time they are noticed by people and that they exist since most Latin American people still deny Afro Latinos just because of their skin color and their accent. Course evidence: