Directions:For each essay question, plan to write a distinct 4 page response, drawing on all the course materials and activities, and using at least 3 of the course reserve readings as the IN-TEXT support/citations for each answer. 2. Your essays should be typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and turned in as one single document, with each essay starting on a new page. Title pages and long headings or repeating the question, do not count towards the length of the answer. The grading criterion for the exams are: a) Critically integrating and applying a range of the course readings in your essaysb) Demonstrating an ability to analyze and formulate a response to questions about prejudice and inequality, systems of oppression, and social interventions.Although grammar and writing style are not explicitly part of the grading criterion, your essays should be readable and reasonably well-organized.
Your citations will be in the text of your paragraph and will use the course readings on the course website/Blackbaud. Since your citations will be of course reserve materials, you do not need to include a distinct bibliography. Citations should at minimum include the author, title, and year (where applicable), and if quotations are used, the page number. DO NOT USE LONG QUOTES. Summarize or paraphrase. Be consistent in your format and use of citations. Prompts:#1. Choose at least one of the following approaches: Liberation Approach Decolonial Approach Critical Intersectional Feminist Approach Cultural Trauma Theory Approach Then discuss how it could be applied to one of the institutionalized systems of oppression that we discuss in class (eg. gender violence, poverty, education, housing/urban development, ecological devastation, capitalism, racism, mass incarceration).
Discuss according to the approach: What would be some of the major symptoms of inequity in this issue? (How do we know there is a problem?) What are some root, structural, historical, social, and/or psychological causes of the problem/issue? What do different stakeholders have to gain by maintaining the problem? What does this approach suggest can be done about the problem?#2. Choose two of the following approaches: Liberation Approach Decolonial Approach Critical Intersectional Feminist Approach Cultural Trauma Theory ApproachThen, discuss according to each of those 2 approaches what are the major factors that define social identity? According to these approaches, how does collective or historical trauma impact the development or performance of an individual or group’s social identity? How would you describe the connection between collective/historical trauma and individuals’ experience(s) of trauma? How would you describe the connection between social inequity and historical trauma?
Requirements: 8 pages
