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Dec 07, 2024
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Understanding Diversity through Sociology
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Return to: Minors, Certificates and Micro-Credentials
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Diversity through Sociology Core (3 credits)
Two Diversity Sociology Electives (6 credits)
Paper and Diversity Statement
Students must also:
- submit a paper written in response to one of two paper prompts, and
- submit a diversity statement for an employer
Total Credits Required for Micro-Credential: 9
Academic Requirements
Students must complete all requirements with a grade of B or higher.
Learning Outcomes
- Think critically and sociologically about controversial contemporary and historical topics stemming from issues such as gender, race, class, ethnicity, religion, disability, and immigration in American society.
- Identify the theories, methods and findings of key research conduced by sociologists studying diversity
- Understand the relationship between social structure, culture, and individual/collective agency.
- Describe and assess how discrimination and oppression impact the lives of people of color and other marginalized populations in the United States.
- Describe how categories of diversity intersect or connect with each other, creating complex identities and perspectives.
- Analyze how categories of difference create both institutional inequalities and advantages.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of policies intending to increase or reduce diversity.
- Apply sociological concepts from the diversity coursework in writing a diversity statement for an employer.
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