This pride is designed to both give students an introduction into their study in the Smeal College of Business through PSU 6 (1 credit) and BA 297 (1 credit) and to engage students in contemporary issues around race, ethnicity, and culture through SOC 119 (4 credits). Students will be able to understand the extent and pervasiveness of racial, ethnic, and cultural inequality and discrimination in the U.S. and explain how unequal systems impact different ancestry groups both in the U.S. and around the world. Students will be able to compare historical causes and consequences of sociological processes such as immigration, assimilation, and multiculturalism, and they will develop new ways of understanding how these processes are expressed in popular culture (e.g., art, music, literature) and intergroup dynamics. Students will be provided with intellectual tools to formulate more thoughtful questions and responses when they engage others in everyday discussions about the many racial, ethnic, and cultural factors and forces that pull people and groups together and push them apart. Students will also explore pathways to allow them to discover new ways to understand their own racial and ethnic place in the world and the history of their own families.

This pride is reserved for students enrolled in the Smeal College of Business or the Division of Undergraduate Studies.