DC 475: Ethnic and Racial Relations

This course serves as the culmination of the Ethnic and Racial Relations minor and the Dominican Curriculum. Based on what they have learned in the core courses of the minor, as well as their other coursework, students will develop tools and strategies for addressing or improving ethnic or racial relations. The precise topic and focus of the capstone project will be left to individual students. Students are encouraged to use this course to focus on their own interests while making use of multiple disciplinary lenses, including at least one value-focused lens. Among the things students will produce in this course are a carefully constructed and substantive research paper, an oral presentations of their findings, and an e-portfolio. In producing these things, students “close the loop” by developing and evaluating concrete proposals for addressing issues at the heart of ethnic and racial relations.