Be sure to review the associated Essential Characteristics and SLOs while designing the course and answering the following questions:
- In what ways will the course developan understanding of how factors such as:race/ethnicity, class, gender, religion, disability, and sexual orientation shape individual lives, how they are embedded in and have shaped our social institutions, and how they produce markedly different outcomes and opportunities for individuals and groups?
- How will the course develop an awareness of students’ biases regarding diversity, the origins of those biases, and their implications for social, economic, and political interactions?
- How will the course leadstudents to an awareness of their own position within a privilege-oppression continuum, and enablethem to explore the implications of that position for their lives and for their responsibilities as citizens of a multicultural democracy?
- How will the course developan appreciation of the culturally constructed nature of distinctions based on several important diversity categories, such as race/ethnicity, class, disability, gender, religion, and sexual orientation, and of how they have varied historically.
- Although the course may focus on a specific U.S. minority culture, how will the course impartan awareness of how U.S. culture has been, and continues to be, influenced by diverse Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Oceanic,and Central-and South-American cultures, both historical and contemporary?