This course examines various understandings of the concept of 'diversity' as it has developed historically and takes shape today. Through lectures, readings, seminar-style discussions, and screenings, students will scrutinize social categories, processes of differentiation, and outcomes in social, political, economic, and geographical spheres instead of celebrating particular modes of difference. The course provides a framework to think through the fluidity and complexities of such factors as race, gender, sexuality, ability, class and indigeneity.