Required Textbook:

 The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexuality, and Disability. Rosenblum, Karen E. and Toni-Michelle Travis. McGraw-Hill. 2016. ISBN-13: 978-0078027024.

This is the book that you must have for this course. (If the title and author are correct, the book will be the correct one.) Do NOT let the bookstore try to sell you any other book! If they do, please contact me immediately. Thank you!

  Student Course Materials and Instructions:

All of your gradable activities: instructions, rubrics, quizzes (includes exams), projects, miscellany, handouts, and any activity or resource that your professor deems valuable and useful are in EO-Canvas. Please don’t ask me where your gradable activities are. They are in EO-Canvas

All student course material, (with the exception of the required textbook which must be purchased)—Learning Objectives, Lecture Notes, and ALL Instructions for ALL Gradable Activities for this course, as well as rubrics, templates, instructions, videos, miscellany, and examples—will be found in EO-Canvas. EO-Canvas contains the primary course resources that will help you succeed in SOCI 1301. All of the instructions you will need to complete any and all Gradable Activities will be found in EO-Canvas. You MUST have your required textbook by the first day of class! If you don’t have your required textbook by end of the first day of class you will be behind and will not be able to catch up. I have provided you with all of the resources (except the required textbook) that you will need for this course. Everything you need to do well in this course, (except the required textbook) is in EO-Canvas.

HCCS Policy Statement—Course Description:

SOCI 2319 & SOCI 2320 Minority Studies I & Minority Studies II [Houston Community College Catalog]

Historical, economic, social, and cultural development of minority groups. May include African- American, Mexican American, Asian American, and Native American issues. 

[SOCI 2319 & SOCI 2320—Minority Studies I & 2] [AGCM & THECB]

Studies minority-majority group relations, addressing their historical, cultural, social, economic, and institutional development in the United States.

Both sociological and social psychological levels of analysis will be employed to discuss issues including experiences of minority groups within the context of their cultural heritage and tradition, as well as that of the dominant culture.

Core concepts to be examined include (but are not limited to) social inequality, dominance/subordination, prejudice, and discrimination.

Particular minority groups discussed may include those based on poverty, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or religion.

 Core Objectives

• Critical Thinking Skills (CT) - creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information
• Communication Skills (COM) - effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication
• Empirical and Quantitative Skills (EQS) - manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions
• Teamwork (TW) - ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal
• Social Responsibility (SR) - intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities
• Personal Responsibility (PR) - ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making