INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES

CURRIC 537

Designed to foster cultural awareness at the individual and institutional levels, and to promote equitable and anti-racist behaviors as well as social justice in educational practices.

COUNPSY 325

Use personal experiences, readings, and discussions as frameworks for interrogating social, cultural, and political inequities. Engage in dialogues and experiential activities about social differences to promote critical consciousness and intercultural competence across disciplines.

SOC 300

A sociological examination of race, class, gender and sexuality - four central axes of social stratification, identity and experience that have real consequences in people's lives, the opportunities they have, and the challenges they face. Topics include sociological perspectives on how identities and differences are socially constructed and reproduced, and how these categories manifest themselves in inequities in institutions such as schools, workplaces, housing, and the law.

SOC 134

The nature of inter-group relations; emphasis on various forms of racism, discrimination, and white privilege; historical background and characteristics of American Indians, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities; a consideration of economic, housing, political, legal, educational, familial, and health challenges faced by minority groups in US society.

SOC 206

Gain skills for designing and facilitating effective dialogue on topics pertaining to race, ethnicity, and other categories of social difference as a facilitator and/or apprentice forSOC 205. Completion ofSOC 205required.