Students in the Gender, Race, and Identity major study the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, class, and other forms of identity, difference, and power that comprise our social world. The major examines identity, difference, and power from an intersectional perspective, in historical and contemporary contexts, and in global and local settings. Our course program is grounded in critically analyzing race, gender, sexuality, and class, with additional attention to Indigeneity, ethnicity, citizenship, nationality, religion, ability status, and other social categories. The Gender, Race, and Identity major provides an expressly interdisciplinary environment for learning, drawing widely on academic traditions in the social sciences and the humanities. Students gain tools to critically analyze and engage our world and to enact change in their communities and professions.<br>Students will be able to:<br>define and describe issues of identity, difference, and power in relation to race, gender, sexuality, and class, with additional consideration to other categories that may include Indigeneity, ethnicity, citizenship, nationality, religion, ability status, and others.<br>critically compare and distinguish among historical and theoretical understandings of identity, difference, and power in relation to structural inequality, social movements, and state power.<br>integrate and demonstrate comprehension of course content through oral presentations and critical, creative, and expository writing appropriate to audience.<br>analyze multiple dimensions of identity, difference, and power from an interdisciplinary perspective, using a range of appropriate methodological tools.<br>integrate academic studies in the major in Gender, Race, and Identity into personal and professional goals and be able to formulate and implement theoretically informed political, cultural, or community action.