Gender and Poverty Memorial Hall, Room 110 Professor Elizabeth
Higginbotham This is a senior seminar for Sociology, Criminal
Justice, Black American Studies, Women Studies, and other social
science majors. It is necessary that students have a background
in the social sciences to do the required course work. You will
bring knowledge and skills from other courses into this one,
where you will do independent and group work. You are expected
to be an active participant in the class. Course assignments
involve written work and oral presentations. In the last two
decades we have witnessed increasing levels of inequality in the
United States. The new century began as a nation divided between
those who have and those who do not have. There is a gap between
the rich and the poor that leaves those in the middle profoundly
challenged both economically and socially. The people facing
poverty in this nation are racially diverse, but
disproportionately people of color. Women and children currently
make up the majority of t