Power & Inequality
DPI 386MA 1
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Course Information
Description
Courses in this MPP core sequence examine how social categories, group-based cleavages, and inequalities shape contemporary leadership and policy challenges. The modules equip students with core knowledge, analytic approaches, and professional skills to understand and navigate how institutions and policies interact with dynamic, contested, and conflictual group-based identities and hierarchies. Through a diverse set of complementary module-length courses addressing race, ethnicity, gender, indigeneity, caste, class, and more, this sequence grounds questions and debates about identity, intergroup conflict, unequal treatment, and shifting social and political boundaries in rigorous empirical and historical perspective. This course is a four-credit sequence in which you'll take two half-semester modules selected out of seven options (note: some modules are offered twice). See full list of options here.
Sections A1/A2 (Fall 2): Zoe Marks. International and Intersectional Approaches to Race and Racism
This module examines power, inequality, and social hierarchies in global comparative context. Students will analyze how institutions, economic structures, and colonial legacies have shaped social identities and inequalities; and will evaluate key conceptual frameworks, including race, caste, class, and gender, for measuring, analyzing, and addressing compound policy challenges.
Course Notes
This course is required of all MPP1 students.
Class Notes
This course has an in-person final presentation during the December 9-18 exam period. Students are responsible for ensuring that they do not register for classes with exams scheduled at the same time. Please refer to the posted final exam schedule.
Not Available for Cross Registration
