FYS 057 - Images of the Other:Stereotypes and Their Consequences

Institution:

Lafayette College

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Description:

This seminar identifies and analyzes some of the group stereotypes alive in contemporary culture and traces their origins. It explores images of "the Other" that people construct based upon gender, racial, ethnic, and religious differences and examines their causes, functions, and consequences. In the process, students become more aware of their own complicity in stereotypical thinking and ask whether and how it can be transcended. Cohn

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lafayette.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 330-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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