Students entering in 2015-16 or later must satisfy the Knowledge, Identity, and Power (KNOW) graduation requirement by completing one course that has been approved to meet that requirement based on the Learning Objectives and Guidelines that follow.

Learning Objectives

Courses in Knowledge, Identity, and Power (KNOW) provide a distinct site for students to understand the dynamics and consequences of power differentials, inequalities, and divisions among social groups and the relationship of these issues to the representation and production of knowledge. In these courses, students also develop their capacity to communicate meaningfully about power, disparity, and diversity of experiences and identities.

Guidelines

  1. These courses promote critical engagement with the causes, nature, and consequences of individual, institutional, cultural, and/or structural dynamics of disparity, power, and privilege. These courses provide opportunities for students to:
    1. engage in dialogue about issues of knowledge, identity, and power, and
    2. consider linkages between their social positions and course themes related to these issues.
  2. KNOW courses may also fulfill other program or graduation requirements.

Approved Courses

The following courses have been approved as satisfying the Knowledge, Identity, and Power requirement.

  • AFAM 101 - Introduction to African American Studies
  • AFAM 301 - Environmental Racism
  • AFAM 304 - Capital and Captivity: African Americans and the U.S. Economy
  • AFAM 310 - African Diaspora Experience
  • AFAM 355 - African American Women in American History
  • AFAM 360 - The Art and Politics of the Civil Rights Era
  • AFAM 370 - Communication and Diversity
  • AFAM 375 - The Harlem Renaissance
  • AFAM 398 - Methods in African American Studies
  • AFAM 400 - The 1619 Project
  • ALC 325 - Chinese Cinema: Ideology and the Box Office
  • ARTH 394 - Interrogating Methods of Art History: From Artist Biographies to Global & Decolonizing Perspectives
  • ASIA 344 - Asia in Motion
  • BUS 365 - Cultural Diversity and Law
  • COMM 361 - Organizing Difference
  • COMM 370 - Communication and Diversity
  • COMM 372 - Contemporary Media Culture: Deconstructing Disney
  • EDUC 419 - American Schools Inside and Out
  • EDUC 420 - Multiple Perspectives on Classroom Teaching and Learning
  • ENGL 238 - Afrofuturism
  • ENGL 242 - Introduction to Native American Literature
  • ENGL 247 - Introduction to Popular Genres
  • ENGL 250 - Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory
  • ENGL 371 - History of the English Language
  • ENGL 372 - History of Rhetorical Theory
  • ENVP 301 - Environmental Racism
  • ENVP 326 - People, Politics, and Parks
  • ENVP 343 - Buddhist Environmentalisms
  • FREN 260 - Cultures of the Francophone World
  • FREN 340 - Francophone Women Writers
  • FREN 381 - African Women Writers
  • GDS 211 - Introduction to Global Development
  • GERM 355 - Culture in the Third Reich
  • GLAM 322 - Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient World
  • GLAM 323 - Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
  • GLAM 330 - Theories of Myth
  • GQS 201 - Introduction to Gender, Queer, and Feminist Studies
  • GQS 220 - What is Queer? The Politics and Practices of Fashioning the Self
  • GQS 320 - Queerly Scientific: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Scientific Knowledge Production
  • HIST 200 - Doing History: An Introduction
  • HIST 252 - Monuments and Memory in US History
  • HIST 305 - Women and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
  • HIST 307 - The Crusades
  • HIST 375 - History of Sport in US Society
  • HIST 383 - Borderlands: La Frontera: The U.S.-Mexico Border
  • HON 214 - Interrogating Inequality
  • HON 401 - What is America?
  • HUM 368 - A Precious Barbarism: Enlightenment, Ideology, and Colonialism
  • IPE 101 - Power and Wealth in Global Affairs: Introduction to International Political Economy
  • IPE 211 - Introduction to Global Development
  • LAS 100 - Introduction to Latin American Studies
  • LTS 200 - Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
  • LTS 300 - Latina/o Literatures
  • MUS 221 - Jazz History
  • MUS 223 - Women in Music
  • MUS 227 - Musical History of Tacoma
  • MUS 234 - Introduction to Ethnomusicology
  • MUS 330 - Opera: Based on a True Story
  • MUS 393 - Introduction to Secondary Music Education
  • MUS 492 - Special Topics in Ethnomusicology
  • PG 104 - Introduction to Political Theory
  • PG 315 - Law and Society
  • PG 345 - Intersectionality as Theory and Method
  • PG 346 - Race in the American Political Imagination
  • PHIL 106 - Language, Knowledge, and Power
  • PHIL 107 - Philosophy of Disability
  • PHIL 389 - Race and Philosophy
  • PHIL 390 - Gender and Philosophy
  • PSYC 265 - Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • PSYC 373 - Perceiving Self and Other
  • REL 202 - Introduction to the Study of World Religions
  • REL 222 - Antisemitism and Islamophobia
  • REL 265 - What is Justice?
  • REL 270 - Religion, Activism and Social Justice
  • REL 302 - Ethics and the Other
  • REL 307 - Prisons, Gender and Education
  • REL 323 - Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Societies
  • REL 340 - Imagining Religion: Scholars, Theories, and Cases in the Study of Religion
  • SOAN 101 - Introduction to Sociology
  • SOAN 102 - Introduction to Anthropology
  • SOAN 215 - Race and Ethnic Relations
  • SOAN 222 - Culture and Society of Southeast Asia
  • SOAN 370 - Disability, Identity, and Power
  • SPAN 216 - (Wo)men of Maize: Food Cultures of the Americas
  • SPAN 221 - Introduction to Iberian Cultures
  • SPAN 329 - Literaturx Latinx
  • SPAN 414 - The Returning Resistance: Memory, Gender, and Nationalisms in Spain
  • SPAN 415 - Bitter Flavors of the Americas: Sugar, Coffee & Bananas
  • STHS 330 - Evolution and Society Since Darwin
  • THTR 250 - World Theatre I: African Diaspora
  • THTR 252 - World Theatre II: Asian Theatres

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