The Department of Sociology at Brown University offers a variety of courses that meet the Race, Power, and Privilege (RPP) designation. RPP courses highlight Brown’s commitment to the intellectual study of race, racial formations, inequality, and social justice. These courses examine issues of structural inequality, racial formations and/or disparities, and systems of power within a complex pluralistic world.
To learn more about RPP courses, and to download Reports of the Task Force on Diversity in the Curriculum, visit Examining Race, Power and Privilege
Courses | Titles | Instructors |
Fall 2022 | ||
SOC 0010 | Social Forces: An Introduction to Sociology | Michael D. Kennedy |
SOC 0250 | An Environmental Sociology for a Rapidly Warming World | Scott A. Frickel |
SOC 0315 | International Migration |
Laura López-Sanders |
SOC 1872C | Race and Ethnic Relations, Identity, and Inequality | Zhenchao Qian |
SOC 1873C | Cities of the Global South | Amanda Ball |
Spring 2023 | ||
SOC 0010 | Social Forces: An Introduction to Sociology | Lisa DiCarlo |
SOC 0300I | From Macro to Micro: Experiencing Education (In)equality in and beyond Schools | Prudence Carter |
SOC 0300N | Social Inequality: Change and Continuity in the U.S. | Emily Rauscher |
SOC 0300R | The Sociology of Race | Laura López-Sanders |
SOC 1116 | Criminal Courts and the Law in an Era of Mass Incarceration | Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve |
SOC 1270 | Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Modern World | Jose Itzigsohn |
SOC 1490 | Power, Knowledge and Justice in Global Social Change | Michael D. Kennedy |
SOC 1871B | Sociological Perspectives on Poverty | Gregory C. Elliot |
SOC 1872O | Critical Race Theory | Rosalind Chou |
SOC 1873T | Contemporary Social Theory | Nur Bavbek |