Description: Seminar, one hour. Affirmative action as it pertains to university campuses has become discussion defined by partisan entrenchment and bitter decades-long debate. Incorporating sociology, educational studies, legal theory, and more, thorough and multidisciplinary exploration of affirmative action's history, rationale, and implementation in U.S., with particular foci on current events, where Asian Americans fit into debate, and uncertain future of this policy. Facilitation of development of informed, critical, and complex opinions of controversial social policy through weekly discussions prefaced by brief backgrounder explanations. Evaluation of fundamental questions pertinent to this policy, such as does race matter in colleges and is affirmative action discriminatory, while also conducting critical investigations of why these questions are being asked in first place. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Arthur Wang, with Robert T. Teranishi as faculty mentor.

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