Combining a variety of academic disciplines (gender and women’s studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, disability studies, postcolonial studies), critical identity studies investigates the ways in which gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, sexuality, dis/ ability, nation, non/religiosity, and region shape identities within structures of inequality and through systems and practices of power and resistance. As such, critical identity studies is necessarily interdisciplinary, intersectional, and oriented toward social justice.

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主要和未成年人使用核心和交叉列出的课程，以聘请学生在调查身份形成的理论方法和经验的学习，历史，政治，社会和文化过程中。最终，关键身份研究涉及学生的意识，了解身份多于多个，嵌入在权力关系中，以及世界上运营的方式。

From the introductory course, “Sex and Power,” to the advanced theoretical courses which include “Whiteness,” “Masculinities,” “Gender Bending,” “Race and Culture,” “Feminism and Politics,” “‘Black Lives Matter,” and “Thinking Queerly,” CRIS courses are always interdisciplinary, intersectional, and oriented toward social justice. As such, Critical Identity Studies emphasizes the importance of communicating across differences as a means to fulfill the College’s mission of empowering students “to lead fulfilling lives marked by high achievement, personal responsibility, and public contribution in a diverse society.”