Diversity and Inclusion (DI)

These courses address the characteristics of diverse cultures in the United States. Courses focus on the struggles for full inclusion of underrepresented populations and non-dominant cultures and/or the challenges and benefits of diversity in American institutions.

Rationale

Learning about the diversity of American cultures will help develop students' abilities to interact with people different from themselves and understand the role of social structures in creating and sustaining privilege and inequality. The study of the challenges and benefits of inclusion of all peoples in American life will prepare students to engage thoughtfully with the people and institutions they encounter now and in the future.

Goals

Diversity and Inclusion courses will prepare students to understand people different from themselves, how social processes shape diverse cultures and experiences, and to think critically about the challenges and benefits of inclusion in institutions and civic life.

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Course Criteria

Courses must address as their primary topic one or more of the following:

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The history and development of diverse cultures in the United States.

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The struggles for full inclusion of non-dominant American cultures and the evolving meaning of inclusion.

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The challenges and benefits of diversity and inclusion for American institutions.

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Patterns of privilege and discrimination, prejudice, and oppression in American society and the ways in which they shape the lives of historically disenfranchised groups.

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Critical perspectives of how historical and socio-economic contexts in the United States shape cultural, artistic, productive, technological, and intellectual endeavors.

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Learning Outcomes

Students will meet one or more of the following learning outcomes.

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Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the history and development of diverse cultures in the United States.

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Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to analyze the challenges and benefits of diversity and inclusion for American institutions.

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Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to question stereotypes and ethnocentrism to understand historically marginalized cultural communities on their own terms.

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Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to apply the critical perspective that historical and socio-economic context shape cultural, artistic, productive, technological, and intellectual endeavors.

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Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to evaluate how dynamics of power and inequality shape aspects of cross-cultural interaction, such as patterns of privilege, discrimination, and the struggle for full inclusion of non-dominant cultures.

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