GOAL AREA 7: HUMAN DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES
Requirements
One course
Two credits
Goals
To increase students' understanding of individual and group differences (e.g., race, gender, class) and their knowledge of the traditions and values of various groups in the United States. Students should be able to evaluate the United States' historical and contemporary responses to group differences.
Critical Thinking
The practice of critical thinking skills required for clear understanding of human diversity, including the ability to gather and apply factual information, analysis of logical connections between facts and assumptions, skill at recognizing and articulating the value assumptions made by ourselves and others.
Student Competencies
Students will be able to:
- understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States, history and culture.
- demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.
- analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.
- describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.
- demonstrate communication skills necessary for living and working effectively in a society with great population diversity.
Courses that satisfy this goal area include
ANTH 2710 Anthropology of World Religions (3 credits)
COMM 1090 Interpersonal Communication (3 credits)
COMM 3120 Communication in a Diverse Society (3 credits)
COMM 3130 Family Communication (3 credits)
COMM 3150 Gender Communication (3 credits)
COMM 3170 Health Communication (3 credits)
*ED2007
ENGL 2330 Diverse American Literatures to 1865 (3 credits)
ENGL 2337 American Literature from 1865 to Present (3 credits)
ENVR 3710 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Perspective (3 credits)
ENVR 3720 Food Sovereignty, Health & Indigenous Environments (3 credits)
ENVR 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
ENVR 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place (3 credits)
ENVR 3750 Sustainable Communities: Global Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
EQTY 2500 Introduction to Equity (3 credits)
GEOG 1400 World Regional Geography (3 credits)
GEOG 2200 Introduction to Human Geography (3 credits)
GEOG 3410 Geography of North America (3 credits)
GWS1110
*HLTH 2800 Multicultural Health in America (2 credits)
HST1114
HST1115
HST2500
HST2610
HUM2150
INST1107
INST2201
INST2202
INST3170
INST3307
INST3710
INST3720
INST3730
INST3740
INST3750
INST3890
MASC2100
MUS1120
MUS3120
MUS3130
OJIB 1100 Ojibwe Culture (4 credits)
OJIB 3300 Indigenous Language Field Program (4 credits)
PHIL 3340 Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Philosophy (3 credits)
POL1200
PSY2200
SOC2230
SOC2240
SOC3320
*SOWK 2110 Intercultural Communication (3 credits)
OTHERS:
All-University course numbers 1955 and 2955 are available to any department for use as study-travel courses, subject to approval, and will satisfy this goal area.
*This course will satisfy Liberal Education at BSU, but does not qualify for inclusion in the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum as currently interpreted by Minnesota State, and may not be accepted as a Liberal Education course at other Minnesota State institutions or the University of Minnesota.