2013 Fall Global Diversity (G)

Recognizing that the understanding of diversity is intimately tied to the concepts of culture, race, language, identity, and inter-group dynamics, as well as their applications to complex situations, Global diversity courses place their focus on the theoretical discussion of these concepts as well as the in-depth analysis of complex situations through these concepts.

Global Diversity courses:

• Require students to demonstrate their grasp of theoretical concepts involving culture, as well as to show that they can use these concepts respectfully to analyze both culture in the real world and the rhetoric about culture.
• Involve in-depth, analytical discussions about the concepts of culture, the similarities and differences between cultures, the real-world consequences of these concepts, both historically and contemporarily, and global cultural interactions, both historically and contemporarily.
• Provide in-depth and focused attention to illustrating and analyzing cultural concepts in complex contexts, preferably including different cultural groups.
• Utilize assignments that emphasize some of the following:
  • the cultural analysis of complex situations.
  • the theoretical concepts of culture as applied to real-world situations.
  • reflexivity of students in terms of their own culture and their position in relationship to other cultures.
  • the improvement of thinking and writing skills as applied to complex problems.
  • the ability of students to think through problems of cultural difference and decide when and when not such difference can be accepted.

For more details regarding the content of Global Diversity courses, please see Social-Cultural Diversity Criteria.

Approved Global Diversity (G) Courses

Highlighted courses are additional ES options this year

Anthropology 100	Introduction to Anthropology	(3)
Anthropology 171	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	(3)
Anthropology 172	Introduction to Archaeology	(3)
Anthropology 200	World Prehistory	(3)
Anthropology 371	Cultural Dynamics	(3)
Anthropology 377	North American Archaeology	(3)
Anthropology 379	Culture Area Studies	(3)
Communication Sciences & Disorders 425	Language, Multiculturalism and Communication Disorders	(3)
English 228	Diversity and Global Literatures	(3)
Geography 151	Human Geography	(3)
Geography 161	World Regional Geography	(3)
German 206	Germany in a Global World	(3)
German 306	Contextualizing Culture: Introduction to German Studies	(3)
History 101	Western Civilization I	(3)
History 102	Western Civilization II	(3)
History 230	History of Modern Science	(3)
Honors 381	Exploring Global Diversity Through the Humanities	(3-4)
Honors 382	Exploring Global Diversity Through the Social Sciences	(3-4)
Humanities 225	Advanced Integrated Social Science	(2-4)
Indian Studies 385	Sustainable Communities	(3)
Music 203	Music and Culture	(3)
Nutrition & Dietetics 335	World Food Patterns	(3)
Philosophy 383	Asian Philosophy	(3)
Psychology 421	Diversity Psychology	(3)
Religion 101	Religions of the West	(3)
Religion 102	Religions of Asia	(3)
Religion 203	World Religions	(3)
Religion 245	Death and Dying	(3)
Religion 250	East and West in Religion	(3)
Religion 305	Mysticism	(3)
Religion 315	Daoism and Confucianism	(3)
Religion 320	Hinduism	(3)
Religion 380	Buddhism	(3)