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AUx2 Course Overview

AUx2 seeks to create a space for dialogue and learning about race, social identity, and structures of power. The course builds upon concepts introduced in AUx1, blending personal exploration of social identity formation with a multidisciplinary approach to race. AUx2 aims to equip students to begin the practice of engaging in dialogue with recognition of impact on individuals, communities, and structures. The course also is set-up to prepare students for their Diversity and Equity (DIV) course, which aims to build off content introduced in AUx2 while highlighting faculty expertise in these areas and underscoring the university’s commitment to engaging with the larger cultural and political conversation about social equity.

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AUx2 Learning Outcomes
Fall 2024 Topics
Spring 2024 Topics

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Examine race and racism as a socially constructed system, primarily in the context of Western European settler colonialism.
  • Evaluate how racism intersects with other systems of oppression that create power, privilege, and inequality in relation to society or themselves.
  • Examine liberation, resistance, or cultural celebration efforts led by historically marginalized people and communities that confront or disrupt systems of oppression, such as racism and white supremacy.
  • Practice dialogue and self-reflection as examples of anti-racist principles.

Please see the list below for class topics for fall 2024.

  • Class 1: AUx2 – Laying the Foundation
  • Class 2: Self & Community – Centering Belonging
  • Class 3: Self & Community – Building Bridges
  • Class 4: Theoretical Foundations – Individual, Institutional, & Structural
  • Class 5: Social Constructions of Race – Historical Foundations
  • Class 6: Origins of Intersectionality
  • Class 7: Examining Racism & Oppression – Dialogue
  • Class 8: Liberation & Resistance Practices
  • Class 9: Expanding Our Understanding of Intersectionality
  • Class 10: Examining Resistance Efforts – Dialogue, Part 1
  • Class 11: Examining Resistance Efforts – Dialogue, Part 2
  • Class 12: Class Choice
  • Class 13: Self & Community – Care in Resistance Efforts
  • Class 14: Now What? – AUx Reflection and Preflection

Please see the list below for class topics for spring 2024.

  • Class 1: AUx2 – Laying the Foundation
  • Class 2: Self & Community – Centering Belonging
  • Class 3: Self & Community – Building Bridges
  • Class 4: Theoretical Foundations – Individual, Institutional, & Structural
  • Class 5: Social Constructions of Race – Historical Foundations
  • Class 6: Origins of Intersectionality
  • Class 7: Examining Racism & Oppression – Dialogue
  • Class 8: Liberation & Resistance Practices
  • Class 9: Expanding Our Understanding of Intersectionality
  • Class 10: Examining Resistance Efforts – Dialogue, Part 1
  • Class 11: Examining Resistance Efforts – Dialogue, Part 2
  • Class 12: Class Choice
  • Class 13: Self & Community – Care in Resistance Efforts
  • Class 14: Now What? – AUx Reflection and Preflection

A Journey Through AUx: Syedah’s Story

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Syedah Asghar shares her experience taking AUx and what she found valuable about the experience.