Overview
Description
In this online course you will read, critically analyze and respond to multicultural children’s and young adult literature that address issues of equity and diversity within society and through a global lens.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Core
CO10, CO11
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate an understanding of contemporary social issues and current events using theories of diversity and equity.
- articulate ways in which social identities such as race, class, and gender intersect in order to influence individual life experiences and/or perspectives.
- analyze complex questions concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, nationality, language, religion, and other categories of difference.
- demonstrate an understanding of relationships between diversity, inequality, and power in, or through a comparison with, the United States.
- select and apply appropriate methods of inquiry to analyze complex questions about cultural difference and/or equity.
- analyze and interpret information about cultural differences, cultural rules, and cultural biases in their own society or about non-dominant or marginalized groups.
- contextualize current events and experiences in relation to historical and current global contexts.
- identify, analyze, and interpret connections between localized events and their global contexts.