Connections 23016 - Race as a Social Construct

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Wheaton College - Massachusetts

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The courses in this connection have the common theme of the origins and consequences of dividing humans into catagories based upon morphological characteristics. In Genetics, students will study the complex pathways by which melanin pigments are formed. A major conclusion will be an appreciation for skin tones as a continuum of shades rather than as discrete and classifiable "racial" characteristics.In Africans on Africa, students will explore the attitudes and opinions of the diverse peoples of Africa for a much more complex point of view on what it means to be African or African-American. Multicultural Issues in Psychology is a course focusing on ethnic and racial identities and their influences on human behaviors and interactions. This connection may be completed either as a two-course or three-course connection. Connections: Bio 211 Genetics and/or Hist 143 Africans on Africa: A Survey and/or Psy 251 Multicultural Psychology

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wheatoncollege.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 285-7722

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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