Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Courses

DEI 100 (3-0-3)

Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice

This course is designed to increase student awareness, knowledge, and understanding of such core concepts as race, class, gender, identity, difference, and intersectionality. It explores how power and privilege can influence institutional and societal structures and lead to oppression, poverty, marginalization, alienation, and inequity. It examines strategies that have been used to encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion and to promote social justice. The course asks students to develop and share a social justice action-plan that applies core concepts and learned strategies.