Class #1: Mixing It Up
We Are Here to Spark Curiosity, Not Ideology
First Case Study: Living in the In-Between
Class #2: Let’s Talk About Skin
The Stories of Creation and Evolution
The Story of Our Skin
It’s Okay to Notice Differences
Class #3: When Should We "See Color"?
Skin Tones and Cancer Survival Rates
How Much Responsibility Do Patients Have?
Be Careful of What You Don’t See
Class #4: When Should We Call Something "Racism"?
Always Remember: There Are Many Perspectives and Causes
What Are We Talking About, White Skin?
How Does Your Culture See Race?
Class #5: Checking Out Our Privilege
When Do People Benefit from White Privilege?
The Issues Not Talked About: White Privilege
What Are You Willing To Give Up?
Class #6: Hispanic Considerations
What Do These Terms Mean?
How Do You Identify?
What Does Being Latin American Mean to You?
Class #7: Word Bridging
Have Conversations with Others
Two American Student Learn Arabic
Class #8: The Sikhs
Class #9: Heartbreak and Hope
Who Do the Police Protect, Serve, and Represent?
What Makes a Cop “Good” or “Bad?”
How Often Do Cops “Make Mistakes?”
A Conversation about Police AND Violence
Class #10: When Things Fall Apart
Penn State and NATO Dialogues with Soldiers and Afghans
A Retired Army Colonels Experience in Afghanistan
The Evacuation Plan from Afghanistan
A Conversation with Afghan Refugees
Class #11: A Singular Lens
The Legality of Undocumented Immigrants
Do Undocumented Immigrants Steal American Jobs?
Who “Owns” the Land?
Class #12: Run, Hide, Fight
What Do You Know about Guns in America?
Is America Moral? : A Gun Culture Conversation
Class #13: Then and Now
Lessons in College that are Applicable to Real Life
How Do You Balance Racial and Economic Differences?
How Has Penn State Changed Over Time?
Class #14: Free to Be
How Much Does Voting Actually Impact “Freedom”?
Living in a Surveillance State
How Will Your Life Change When You Go Home?
Class #15: A Live Experiment in Empathy with Basim Razzo - A SOC 119 Classic Lecture
Introducing Basim Razzo
The Day of the Bombing
Q&A with Basim Razzo
Class #16: How The Rich live - A SOC 119 Class Lecture
We Are the 1%
Making Sense of the Randomness of Life
Wrestling with Modern Day Slavery
Class #17: Arranging Love
Choices in “Love” and “Arranged” Marriages
When Your Parents Pick Your Partner
Class #18: Finding Discrimination
Class’s History with Discrimination Conversations
When it SEEMS like Discrimination is Happening
Is There Discrimination in the Job Market?
Class #19: Remembering Iraq
The Importance of Dialogues in Iraq
Class #20: Who Wants Kids?
The Future Isn’t American
Are You Expected to Have Children?
Asia’s Population Crisis
Class #21: Protecting the Children
Who Do You Want Teaching Your Children?
An Honest Conversation about Sexuality
An Honest Conversation about Gender Identity
Class #22: Ukraine: The People’s War
A Brief History of Russia and Ukraine
A Conversation with a Russian
A Ukrainian American Student’s Perspective
How War Impacts Lives
Class #23: Those Black Devils
Flipping American Racial History
Are We Really Equal?
Class #24: The Long Hatred
The Longest Lasting Hatred in the World
How Did Germans Respond to the Holocaust During WW2?
Class #25: SOC 119 and Critical Race Theory
The Critiques about Critical Race Theory
What We NEED To Talk About
We NEED to ACKNOWLEDGE the Differences
Class #26: Facing the Consequences
Getting a Life Sentence
Prisoner’s Search for Meaning
Becoming the “Bad Boy”
Class #27: Minding our Business
Mental Health Awareness Around the World
Asking the Big Question
Good and Bad Mental Health Advice
Class #28: Invisible Cultures Among Us
Music Performed by Bae Boum Jun
Getting to know Bae Boum Jun
Traditional Korean Clothing
Korea Tea Ceremony
Life with Special Needs
Class #29: TBD
TBD
Class #30: Ask Sam Anything
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