Diversity Requirement
Models
Common Core Requirements
The DPD Program works to create a
more inclusive curriculum that addresses
issues of race, class, gender, sexual
orientation, and other institutionalized
systems of inequality. The program provides
faculty and staff with the training
and resources needed to develop or modify
comparative diversity courses.
University of Michigan
Race or Ethnicity (ROE) Requirement
Approved by the Literature, Science,
and the Arts (LS&A) faculty and effective
for students entering the College of
Literature, Science and the Arts (LS&A)
in Fall 1991, each student must take,
as part of graduation requirements,
one course that addresses issues arising
from racial or ethnic intolerance. This
requirement is part of the Michigan
Mandate, first set forth in 1988, designed
to make the University of Michigan a
national and world academic leader in
the racial and ethnic diversity of its
faculty, students, and staff and to
link academic excellence and social
diversity.
The first-year Cultural Studies Colloquia
and Seminars comprise the centerpiece
of Occidental's Core Program. The fall
colloquia are team-taught courses in
which faculty from several different
departments join with students in the
exploration of human culture from a
variety of disciplinary as well as cultural
perspectives. Each colloquium is followed
in the spring by research seminars in
which increased emphasis is placed on
writing research-based essays, and on
mastering the skills necessary to the
location of relevant materials (in both
print and electronic media), the construction
of evidence-based arguments, and the
conventions of academic discourse. Below
are several program courses, visit the
program
site to view colloquia and seminars
for the coming year.
Saint Edward's multidisciplinary six
course requirement is designed to help
students develop a balanced understanding
and appreciation for their own and other
cultures. This site describes the general
education requirement and includes a
number of syllabi.
Cultural
Encounters, St. Lawrence University
All courses within the Cultural Encounters
Program follow curricular guidelines
which specify that the courses include
content from cultures commonly understood
as "Western" and "non-Western. "Students
in this program are asked to study other
cultures while simultaneously reflecting
on their own. The Program develops "writing-intensive"
pedagogues, which includes exploring
ways in which journals connect students'
personal experiences with the academic
content of the program, particularly
in relation to study abroad. Courses
in the Cultural Encounters Program include:
- Creating
Colonialism: the Literature of
Exploitation and Cultural Contact
- Religious
Studies 248N: Fundamentalism as
Cultural Encounter
- History
247: The Rise of the New Europe
- Fine Arts/Cultural
Encounters 220: The Museum as
Cultural Crossroads
- Greek
Poetry, Philosophy, and Politics in
a Multicultural Context
A Sample of
New Curricular Models for Diversity
Learning
From a 1997 issue of Diversity Digest
focusing on curriculum transformation,
this article provides short overviews
of curricular models for general education
programs and courses infused with information
about U.S. pluralism, issues of social
justice, and democratic aspiration.
Skagit
Valley College General Education
Requirement with Guidelines for Implementation.
American Pluralism and the Search
for Equality
SUNY-Buffalo has instituted a one-semester
core course requirement in American
Pluralism for every student at this
large public research university. Courses
meeting the requirement come from many
departments, but all sections must address
common goals and criteria. Included
here are a) a course overview; b) the
course evaluation form; c) section descriptions
from 1996-97; and d) reading lists from
several dozen sections.
- 'American
Pluralism and the Search for Equality'
Course Overview
- Course
Evaluation Form
- Section
Descriptions from 1996-97
- Syllabi
from 1996-97
American
Cultures' Archive: University of California
at Berkeley.
All Berkeley students must take a course
that explores comparatively the diversity
of America's constituent cultural traditions.
This site describes criteria for American
Cultures courses and includes a growing
number of syllabi.
The Fairleigh Dickinson University
Core Program
Fairleigh Dickinson University has
for ten years addressed American pluralism
and comparative world cultures in a
four-semester required core curriculum
taken by all students. The four courses
include 'Perspectives on the Individual,'
'The American Experience: Quest for
Freedom,' 'Cross-Cultural Perspectives,'
and 'Global Issues.' Included here are
the 1996-7 syllabi for each course,
an assessment of student views on the
core and an assessment of faculty views.
- Syllabi for all four courses
- Assessment
of Student Views on the Core
- Assesment
of Faculty Views on the Core
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