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University Diversity Requirement

Three credits from diversity-designated courses will fulfill Boise State's Diversity Requirement. For most majors this requirement does not alter the number of credits needed for the baccalaureate degree. All diversity approved courses are designated as "Diversity" in their course description.

Philosophy of the Diversity Requirement

Boise State University values cultural diversity in its faculty, its students, and its curriculum. Because we live in a multicultural world, we seek to educate students to recognize and appreciate the many ways in which each of us is shaped by gender, sexual orientation, class, race, culture, ability, nationality, religion, and ethnicity. This requires more than just exposure to cultural differences; it requires that we critically examine such differences being attentive to the special challenges that each of us faces in understanding those whose lives are shaped by cultures other than our own. It is hoped that such reflection will afford each of us a critical perspective of the cultures with which we are most familiar and help us appreciate the elements common to human beings across cultures.

The Diversity Requirement will serve as a foundation for ongoing exploration of difference. Accordingly, such courses will (1) be concerned with issues and/or theories of gender, sexual orientation, class, race, culture, nationality, ability, religion, or ethnicity as these may be found anywhere in the world; and (2) require reflection on the challenges and benefits of dialogue across differences.

Learning Outcomes of the Diversity Requirement

• 1. Knowledge Content: The course will increase the student's knowledge and awareness of the unique contributions of diverse groups and their beliefs, values, knowledge, and experiences of people of diverse groups.
 
• 2. Self-reflection: The course will require students to gain self-awareness of and insight into their cultural perspectives.
 
• 3. Diversity Skills: The course will develop the student's ability to sensitively work with diverse individuals and groups while building diverse relationships.
 
• 4. Social Analysis: The course will critically examine social institutions and their policies and structures, either in the United States or abroad, that affect or are affected by the beliefs, values, and experiences of people or diverse groups.
 
• 5. Scope: The course will contain multidisciplinary examinations of difference, power, and oppression.

Additional Diversity Courses at Boise State University

239, 439 Foreign Study ANTH 200 Kinship, Social Organization, and Networks ANTH 216 Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion ANTH 314 Environmental Anthropology ANTH 426 Medical Anthropology: Disease, Culture and Healing ECON 315 Global Economic Development ECON 325 Radical Economics ED-BLESL 200 Cultural Diversity in the School ED-SPED 250 Exceptionality in the Schools ED-SPED 350 Teaching Students with Exceptional Needs at the Secondary Level ANTH 200 Kinship, Social Organization, and Networks ANTH 216 Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion ANTH 314 Environmental Anthropology ANTH 425 Medical Anthropology: Disease, Culture and Healing ECON 315 Global Economic Development ECON 325 Radical Economics ED-BLESL 200 Cultural Diversity in the School ED-SPED 250 Exceptionality in the Schools ED-SPED 350 Teaching Students with Exceptional Needs at the Secondary Level ENGL 213 African-American Literature ENGL 413 The New Literatures in English ENVHLTH 100 Global Environmental Health GENBUS 202 The Legal Environment of Business GENBUS 441 Business, Government, and Society GENDER 300 Introduction to Gender Studies GENDER 301 Feminist Theory GENDER 303 Introduction to Women's Studies GENDER 371 The Social Psychology of Gender GENDER 380 Colloquium in Gender Studies GENDER 480 Seminar in Gender Studies GEOG 200 World Regional Geography HIST 344 Women in America from the Colonial Era to the Present HLTHST 207 Nutrition HLTHST 314 Health Law and Ethics LING 407 Applied Linguistics in Teaching English as a Second Language MKTG 430 International Marketing MUS 404 Survey of Music of World Cultures NURS 376 Caring for the Diverse Community PHIL 321 Eastern Philosophy PSYC 331 The Psychology of Health RADSCI 230 Radiation Biology-Protection RADSCI 234 Introduction to Radiography Clinical Experience RADSCI 310 Pharmacology and Contrast Medias RADSCI 360 Special Radiographic Procedures SOC 279 Contemporary Mexican Society SOC 306 Sociology of African Americans SOC 307 The Asian American Social Experience SOC 312 Population Demography SOC 333 Contemporary Issues of Chicanas/Chicanos SOC 371 The Social Psychology of Gender SOC 425 Urban Sociology SOC 471 Feminist Theory THEA 230 Development of Theatre I: Classical-Neoclassical Forms THEA 330 Development of Theatre III: Contemporary Forms THEA 390 Dramaturgy