Exploring Issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Sciences

Catalog description

This course is designed to assist students in their successful transition to the college academic environment. Topics include academic success strategies, critical thinking, and factors that contribute to disparities in fields within science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Students will explore their own scientific identity and examine intersections of diversity and inclusion in STEM. This course requires that participants actively explore their biases, work together to recognize systemic inequities, and examine practices that impact the way in which people interact with one another and the scientific enterprise.