DIVERSITY COURSE

Application Procedure (last updated 11/2016)

Departments wishing to submit a request for a course to become certified as fulfilling the Diversity Requirement are requested to use the enclosed template and forward it to:

Dr. Elizabeth A. Dooley

Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning & Dean, College of Undergraduate Studies

Teaching and Learning & College of Undergraduate Studies, Millican Hall 210

Applications for new diversity courses must be received by November 1.Please drop off application and additional materials in person to Millican Hall 210

Purposes of the Diversity Requirement

The University recognizes that communities are comprised of, and enriched by, people of diverse backgrounds. The study of diversity is encouraged to promote an understanding of the needs of individuals, the University, and society. Thus, all students completing their first bachelor’s degree from UCF must complete at least one course that explores the diverse backgrounds and characteristics found among humans, including: race/ethnicity, gender, social class/caste, religion, age, sexual orientation, and level of physical ability.(UCFUndergraduate Catalog, 2016-2017)

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DIVERSITY COURSE APPLICATION FORM(last updated 11/2016)

Course Prefix/Number, Title, and Credit Hours:

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Unit/Administrator making the proposal:

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Requirements:

The course must fulfill one of the following three areas in I, and in addition must deal with the issues in II and III.

  1. Respond to one area

1)How does the course focus on one or more contemporary African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American, Native American, or PacificIsland cultures, societies, peoples?

2)How does the course focus on a contemporary minority American culture such as those defined by race, ethnicity, gender, social and economic class/caste, age, sexual orientation, or varying levels of abilities across several dimensions of performance, including the physical?

3)How does the course focus on the processes by which contemporary people interact with persons of either of the above groups in social, professional, and personal situations?

II. Several of these areas should be reflected in the course

1)How does the course study diverse cultures as they intersect and overlap?

2)How does the course study the processes by which people interact with persons of other groups?

3)How does the course conduct a comparative analysis across groups?

4)How does the course focus on minorities, subsets, or groups which have not been traditional subjects of academic review, study, or teaching?

5)How does the course examine the strengths, contributions, and achievements of such groups?

6)How does the course explore issues of power, privilege, and stratification?

7)How does the course examine the process of discrimination, stereotyping, and disadvantage, based on race, gender, class or ethnicity, or cross-cultural interactions?

8)Please include a syllabus for the course that contains, at a minimum, the following elements:

III. Process

1)Will all sections of such courses taught by all professors be taught with the above diversity approach?

2)Will textbooks and readings used for this and future sections of the course also use this diversity approach?

3)Submit a textbook and reading materials to the committee.

4)Submit a syllabus which explains the diversity approach.

5)Outcomes: what projects or assignments are designed to demonstrate the students’ increase in understanding of diversity?

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Department/Administrator Date

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Dean of College Date

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