X. Global Perspectives and Cultural Diversity

Learning Objectives

All courses must meet the Common learning objectives. Each department determines which of the learning objective pathways-Cultural Diversity or Global Perspectives-a particular course will meet.

Common Objectives

• Learning Objective 1: Examine one’s own and global cultures through multiple lenses, such as race, ethnicity, gender, social class, environment, economics, target language and/or other social characteristics.
• Learning Objective 2: Demonstrate an understanding of the socially constructed nature of culture.

Pathway: Cultural Diversity

• CD Learning Objective 1: Critically examine how culture shapes one’s own and other worldviews.
• CD Learning Objective 2: Demonstrate an understanding of the way in which cultures and/or languages are impacted by and adapting to globalizing influences.

Pathway: Global Perspectives

• GP Learning Objective 1: Demonstrate an understanding of the contemporary and/or historical interaction between global human and natural systems (e.g., social, economic, political, or environmental) and various                                                      cultures and worldviews.
• GP Learning Objective 2: Analyze one or more global contemporary and/or historical issues using various cultures, worldviews, and/or global systems (e.g., social, economic, political, or environmental/natural, etc.).

CLO

Global Perspectives and Cultural Diversity

Skill Applied Learning Requirements

• Explicitly demonstrate how the curriculum will develop critical thinking skills.
• Explicitly demonstrate how the curriculum will develop information literacy skills.
• Include a graded writing component, which whenever possible is developmental.

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