Undergraduate Education, Council on -Reports - 2007-2008
- General Education Program (GEP) Implementation Updates
Category: U.S. Diversity
CUE Approved Version for GEP 1-18-08
U. S. Diversity co-requisite (1 course, 0 additional credit hours)
Rationale:
The study of diversity in the United States provides students the opportunity to consider questions of difference and culture, identity and community, privilege and oppression, and power and responsibility in our nation, and to gain an understanding of how these issues affect both individuals and communities.
Objectives:
Each course in U.S. Diversity will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following:
- Analyze how religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class, sexual orientation, disability, and/or age identities are shaped by cultural and societal influences;
- Categorize and compare historical, social, political, and/or economic processes producing diversity, equality, and structured inequalities in the U.S.;
- Interpret and evaluate social actions by religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class, sexual orientation, disability, and/or age groups affecting equality and social justice in the U.S.;
- Examine interactions between people from different religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class, sexual orientation, disability, and/or age groups in the U.S.