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Bring Diversity into Your Course

Bring Diversity into Your Course. Deb Hoskins Inclusive Excellence Coordinator, CATL hoskins.debo@uwlax.edu , 5-8734. Step 1 – Choose an outcome. Start with a course-level outcome. Be relevant, not artificial.

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Bring Diversity into Your Course

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  1. Bring Diversity into Your Course Deb Hoskins Inclusive Excellence Coordinator, CATL hoskins.debo@uwlax.edu, 5-8734

  2. Step 1 – Choose an outcome • Start with a course-level outcome. • Be relevant, not artificial. • Outcomes need not be “about” diversity. Problem-solving outcomes lend themselves to diversity. Example 1, Example 2. • But can diversity matter in your field in ways you haven’t considered? Example 3, Example 4 • Brainstorm first, with colleagues: how many ways can you generate to enact one outcome? How many topics or problems fit? 1

  3. Step 2 – Challenge yourself • What are your discipline’s assumptions, questions, methods, canons, cultures, subcultures? Who/How has your disciplinary culture been challenged? Start here • Are some topics of particular interest to diverse researchers in your field? Start here • Which employers are seeking to hire a diverse labor force? Why? Are you teaching those skills? Start here • What’s new since you were in grad school? Start here • Use inclusivity as a way to stretch your thinking. Call forhelp (hoskins.debo@uwlax.eduor 5-8734). • Connect what you learn to a learning outcome. 2

  4. Step 3 – Know the myths • How not to reinforce stereotypes, and how to teach beyond them • Know what the stereotypes are • Beware the single example • Know your own attitudes and why you hold them • Start here: http://www.uwlax.edu/catl/inclusiveexcellence/IEIdeas.htm and http://www.uwlax.edu/catl/inclusiveexcellence/Prejudice.htm • Ask for help 3

  5. Step 4 – Find the resources • Identify your needs • For you, or for students, or both? • Research literature? Data? Something else? • Training on diversity issues in the classroom? • Start here: http://www.uwlax.edu/catl/inclusiveexcellence/index.htm 4

  6. Step 5 – Design the assignment • What building blocks will students need? How will this assignment differ from what you typically do? • How might stereotypes prevent learning? • How will you prepare your students so that all of them gain from an infused curriculum? • Help is available! hoskins.debo@uwlax.edu or 5-8734 5

  7. Summary/Questions • Summary: • Choose an outcome • Challenge yourself • Know the myths • Find the resources • Design the assignment • Follow –up sessions? • Questions? Contact me: Deb Hoskins, CATL IE 5-8734 hoskins.debo@uwlax.edu 161b Wing or 423a Wimberly

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