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Abstract
Colorado College’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion was formally established in its Antiracism Implementation Plan, created in November 2019 with the intent of creating an antiracist community and environment at the College. The Sociology Department of Colorado College aims to assess its contribution to upholding the College’s commitment to antiracism by evaluating its faculty’s teaching and students’ learning regarding racism. This study seeks to examine the association between sociology coursework and advanced levels of understanding of racism in undergraduate students at Colorado College. A coding scheme was developed to indicate whether respondents demonstrated a “basic,” “intermediate,” or “advanced” understanding of racism in their open-ended response to the question: “What is racism?” The results found that respondents’ progression to higher levels of sociology coursework was significantly associated with their development of an advanced understanding of racism, as respondents who completed 200- and 300-level courses tended to have more advanced understandings of racism compared to those who had only taken 100-level courses.