Suffolk Reporter

Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center issued the following announcement on Nov. 6.

Dean Elena Langan is pleased to announce the creation of a new 13-week interdisciplinary elective course titled “Structural Barriers and the Pursuit of Equity.” The course, which will be offered online in asynchronous format, is open to Touro Law students as well as Touro College & University System (TCUS) graduate students and undergraduate students who have completed at least 2 years of undergraduate studies.

This timely course is designed to encourage students to critically evaluate structural barriers and equity around them on a daily basis. It will run from January 26-April 30, 2021. 

“This course is groundbreaking for the law school,” stated Dean Langan. “The course content will have a profound impact for all students and the enrollment itself is unique, allowing law students, graduate students, and undergraduate students to come together to examine structural discrimination and the impact of inequality.” Dean Langan continued, “The approach to having multiple instructors from across various Touro Colleges and the law school cover a variety of subjects each week allows students to benefit from multiple perspectives and experiences first-hand throughout the duration of the course.”

Structural Barriers and the Pursuit of Equity will be taught by 14 faculty members from across TCUS, each of whom will individually or jointly teach one weekly module during the  13 weeks in this online, asynchronous course. The instructors will provide a high-level overview of the problem of structural discrimination as it manifests in a variety of issues across multiple disciplines. Topics covered in this course will include identity construction, examining the impact of race and civil rights on child welfare decisions, the impact of poverty on educational outcomes for minority students, the Holocaust, the remedial focus on distributive justice, and many others. Throughout the course, students will develop the analytical tools they need to evaluate some of the structures that produce discrimination so they can understand the impact of these barriers on policy and law.

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