Faculty First Year Seminars 197EDUC9 - Beauty Bias: It Hurts [not) to

Unattractive people are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed less likely to be good, kind or honest. Indeed, the global investment in beauty is approaching $200 billion. This course examines body appearance including weight, shape, and size as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, and age. It employs a multi-disciplinary approach spanning the social-behavioral social sciences and humanities. In this course we explore the social, biological, market, and media forces that contribute to appearance-related biases.

Freshmen Only