[EQJS] Courses

Courses that fulfill Inquiry into Equity and Justice equip students with intellectual tools and social contexts necessary to critically examine power dynamics and to recognize, question, and understand structural inequities and privileges. Courses demonstrate how inequalities and/or stereotypes, discrimination, systemic inequities, and violence along lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender, religion, national origin, sexuality, ability, or intersections thereof are produced, sustained, and adapted across time and/or geography. Students develop the ability to position themselves in relation to structural inequities and privileges using self-reflection and open dialogue. Courses provide vital intellectual foundations, tools, and literacies to assess and evaluate ideologies and narratives in order to ethically pursue inclusive and just societies.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students, regardless of major, who successfully complete a [EQJS] course should be able to:

• Understand fundamental knowledge and concepts related to power, privilege, equity, and/or justice as appropriate to the discipline. (WSU Learning Goal: Breadth of Learning)
• Recognize how structures of power and privilege shape unequal social positioning and/or sustain unethical worldviews or ideologies. (WSU Learning Goal: Diversity).
• Recognize the ways in which one’s own social identities impact one’s engagement with others. (WSU Learning Goal: Critical Thinking)
• Identify relevant sources of information that demonstrate how individuals, communities, and movements resist and/or transform institutions that (re-)produce inequality and oppression. (WSU Learning Goal: Informational Literacy)
• Evaluate, at an appropriate level, claims or information about how and why ideologies, constructions, scripts, and other broad generalizations about groups are produced, replicated, adapted over time, and/or persist or manifest in oppressive beliefs and behaviors. (WSU Learning Goal: Information Literacy)
• Communicate about power, privilege, equity, and/or justice in written forms appropriate to the discipline. (WSU Learning Goal: Written Communication)

New outcomes approved Fall 2022.

Available [EQJS] Courses

View [EQJS] courses in the WSU catalog.

Course Prefix	Course Number	Course Title	Credits	College	Status
ANTH	220	Perspectives on Race and Racism	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
CES	101	Race and Racism in the United States	3	CAS	Approved F22 / Effective F23
CES	204	Critical Studies in Whiteness	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
CES	291	Anti-Semitism	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
CES / HISTORY	335 / 360	Black Freedom Struggle	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
CES / HISTORY	436	Workers Across North America	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
CRM_J	205	Advancing Justice: Addressing Power and Inequity in the Justice System	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
ECONS	181	History of Economic Thought on Inequality	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
ENGLISH	362	Rhetorics of Racism	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
ENGLISH	489	Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and Postcolonial Literatures	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
HISTORY	224	Baseball and American Social Movements	3	CAS	Approved F22 / Effective F23
HISTORY	250	Peoples of the United States	3	CAS	Approved F22 / Effective F23
HISTORY	384	The World Through Sports History	3	CAS	Approved F22 / Effective F23
HISTORY / WGSS	399	Lesbian and Gay History: Culture, Politics, and Social Change in the US	3	CAS	Approved F22 / Effective F23
MUS	267	Black American Music: Roots to Fruit	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
POL_S	438	Contemporary Political Theories of Power, Oppression, and Resistance	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
SDC	102	Social Justice in the Built Environment	3	VCEA	Approved S23 / Effective F23
SOC	340	Social Inequality	3	CAS	Approved F22 / Effective F23
WGSS	101	Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
WGSS	120	Sex, Race, and Reproduction in Global Health Politics	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23
WGSS / SOC	385	Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies	3	CAS	Approved S23 / Effective F23