Brown University offers more than 100 courses under ‘Race, Power and Privilege’ designation

Brown University is offering more than 100 courses under a new “Race, Power and Privilege” curricular designation in the spring 2023 semester.

Courses designated under RPP for the spring span nearly 40 subjects and include “Musical Youth Cultures,” “Social Determinants of Health,” “Labor Economics,” and “The Craft of Teaching,” according to the Brown course search page.

“Race, Power and Privilege” courses “in their content and objectives…examine issues of structural inequality, racial formations and/or disparities and systems of power,” according to the RPP website.