Department of History

Race, Power, and Privilege Courses

In their content and their objectives, Race, Power, and Privilege (RPP) courses examine issues of structural inequality, racial formations and/or disparities, and systems of power within a complex, pluralistic world

  • The ways different forms of power and privilege construct racial and identity formations in the U.S. and/or globally; the cultural, political, and intellectual responses to this racialization.

  • How categories of race and ethnicity are produced intersectionally in relation to other hierarchical structures of difference including gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, ability, citizenship status, and geography.

  • The structures, institutions, practices, and attitudes that enable, maintain, or mitigate domestic and/or global disparities in health, income, education outcomes, media representations, etc.

  • The ways in which disciplinary structures of knowledge have been embedded in such historical formations as racism and colonialism.

Fall 2024

Spring 2025

Additional Course Information

The History Department offers a wide variety of courses that can fulfill the College's Writing Designated (WRIT) requirement.
A brief guide to some of the history department’s course offerings for the academic year.