Privilege: What Is Privilege?
9 min! Run Time
Employees
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What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
"A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available to a particular person or group." This is the definition of privilege, a contentious word that often conjures anger, defensiveness, and divisiveness. Why is this? In this course, we'll start to answer this question by discussing exactly what privilege is, how it shows up in our lives, why it's such a sensitive topic for many, and how we can use our privilege to elicit change.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Privilege is defined here as a special right, advantage, or immunity that only some people receive.
The course explains why the topic often triggers anger, defensiveness, and divisiveness among people.
It appears across hiring, promotion, and everyday interactions, often without people noticing.
No, it focuses on building awareness rather than pointing fingers at any individual.
Later courses build on this definition to explore scenarios and ways to use privilege constructively.
