(Formerly numbered 3DS.) Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement or course 2 or 2I (C or better). Investigation of difference and diversity through community-engagement, rhetorical techniques, and skillful argumentation that critically examine structures and institutions that promote asymmetrical power relations as well as responses of diverse groups to these inequalities. Off-campus/on-site community-engagement component is integrated with course materials and units, and it is sustained across the quarter, connecting community engagement experiences with academic learning through critical reflections, analytical writing, and research. Students write a minimum of 20 pages of revised prose that engages and responds to the complexities of the diverse groups under examination. Completion of course with grade of C or better satisfies Writing I requirement. Letter grading.