DIVERSITY ISSUES

Catalog description

The main objective of the course will be to get students to confront and discuss issues of diversity, focusing on race and ethnicity, gender, and religion. A number of contemporary situations will be used to illustrate and illuminate difficult questions about diversity. There will be different sections of the course with different instructors. There will be some commonalties to all of the sections and some areas where instructors may individualize their section. Students in the course will get the benefit of a variety of perspectives on diversity issues as instructors may sometimes switch or combine sections. The class will use lectures, discussion, films, speakers and service learning to promote awareness of diversity issues.