Cultural Humility & Diversity

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Section information text: Learning to work effectively with diverse individuals and communities requires a clear understanding of one’s own culture, status, and power in society, as well as the values and beliefs of others. In this course, students recognize, reconstruct, and analyze the unique cultural setting out of which they themselves developed. Students then begin to apply this self-awareness to their interactions, both within the course and within their personal and professional lives. Through reflective and applied assignments, students recognize bias, oppression, and power imbalances as they exist in our everyday lives and gain a broad understanding of the importance of cultural humility. Students leave the course with an exploration of the challenges and benefits inherent in growing this perspective as social change agents engaged in multicultural practice.