Suffix Approval - Diversity Requirement "D" Suffix

A three-credit course that focuses significantly on an aspect of social or cultural diversity within the United States. Learning perspective courses can meet this requirement, but a first-year LS course cannot satisfy this requirement. A course cannot carry both a “G” and a “D” suffix at the same time.

In these courses students should begin to:

• Understand the multiple factors that have contributed to the creation of identities of cultural or social subgroups within the United States.
• Identify, evaluate and critique attitudes toward one or more of these groups (attitudes, for example, based on perceived differences of gender, race, ethnicity, class, creed, age, ability/disability, sexual orientation, etc.).
• Acknowledge the distinctive contributions of one or more such group(s).
• Develop an appreciation of the heritage and life experiences of one or more such group(s).
• Develop skills for effectively functioning within a diversified society.

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Please provide a short explanation of how does this course:

1. Focus on the cultural or social identity of one or more subgroup(s) within the context of the United States?
2. Develop an understanding of the groups’ heritage and/or lived experience by using sources that originate from within these groups?
3. Provide adequate context that will allow students to assess and critique the dynamics within the subgroup(s) as well as between the subgroup(s) and other group(s) or cultures?
4. Encourage an examination of the experiences of one or more of these groups with those that underlie the students’ own identities?