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Difference, Power, and Responsibility Criteria
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Difference, Power, and Responsibility (include with Curriculum Development application):
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Oregon State Criteria
1. Explore how culturally-based assumptions influence perceptions, behaviors, and
policies (required) and
2. Examine the historical bases and evolution of diverse cultural ideas, behaviors, and
issues (required)
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Difference, Power and Responsibility College Criteria
1. Are regularly-numbered departmental offerings (not 199 or 299 courses) of at least
three credit hours (required);
2. Emphasize critical thinking skills;
3. Incorporate active and/or experiential learning activities;
4. Have, as an important focus, the study of the unequal distribution of power within
the subject matter of the course and the discipline;
5. Focus on the United States, with global contexts encouraged;
6. Examine ways in which discrimination arises from socially-defined meanings
attributed to difference;
7. Examine historical and contemporary examples of difference and the unequal
distribution of power across cultures and/or social institutions in the United States;
and
8. Examine ways in which individuals may participate thoughtfully and responsibly
within cultural and/or social systems in the United States.
Explanation of Inclusion
(Limit explanation to 250 words or less.)
