GCL 148

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Justice (Historical Perspectives)

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Credit: 3 hours.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Justice (Historical Perspectives) is the foundation for a multi-section Grand Challenge Learning pilot course in the Inequality & Cultural Understanding pathway. Although only one section of the course is now being offered, this section and all future sections will focus on specific dimensions of Inequality & Cultural Understanding from an interdisciplinary perspective while meeting the Gen Ed criteria for Humanities & the Arts (Historical & Philosophical Perspectives). This section and all future sections will emphasize experiential learning through, for example, projects, community-engaged scholarship, video conferences with experts and other collaborative classroom activities.

Prerequisite: Restricted to first-time new freshman or first-year transfer students.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

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GCL 148 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	64017	Lecture-Discussion	A	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	313 Gregory Hall	Rota, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil course. Section Title: IASJH: The Global Divide Section Info: We are equal before the law, but what about the rest of our lives? Is economic inequality bad? Is international inequality more acceptable than national inequality? We will study the history of the justifications for inequality in light of what economists, sociologists and philosophers think, today, of inequality. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage the major arguments in support of inequality knowing their history, their weaknesses, and their relation to the larger historical context. We will study inequality and its justifications as some of the crucial pillars of political conflicts and we will learn how the notion of inequality changed over time. We will interview economists, sociologists and other experts to learn what the current debate is. A final undergraduate conference/debate will allow us to test the quality of our work and face the experts with informed and difficult questions. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.