Personal Statement: Sciences Po's Multicultural Community

The College of Arts and Sciences is comprised of four divisions: Fine Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. The curriculum of the College is designed to meet the needs and interests of a diverse, multicultural student body. Explain what interests you in the Arts or Sciences, and how studying at Howard University will help you achieve your overall goals?

1. When I first heard about this conference last year in the diversity club event, I thought of it as essentially a vacation in Atlanta. It sounded fun, but I wasn’t particularly interested in it. Still, I thought it might be worth checking out, so I decided to look online to see what its website said. What I found painted a picture very different from my first impression. It gave the impression of a legitimately powerful learning experience, which coupled with Ainsley’s testimony began to sound extremely worthwhile. I like to think of myself as a fairly culturally sensitive person, but I began to realize how little diversity I’ve been exposed to, growing up in New England. How much could I really understand cultures I had never even come

I request to be in the AP human geography course because college year is just around the corner and I consider it is imperative to expand my knowledge on geography and who it affects us human beings. My main objectives and goals this school year are to learn and understand the connections between the economic, social, political and environmental development of the human race in a global society. This course will not only benefit me in this area, but will also help me employ the methods of geographers, especially though observation, map making and data gathering. My other school year goal is ending this year being more geoliterate that is becoming more engaged in contemporary global issues and more multicultural. In this course I will the

I needed to understand diversity to the ninth degree, so academically I chose to enroll in every course within my degree plan that contained the words “international,” “ethnic,” and “social.” Learning by immersion was a success in my transition to college, so I felt that international immersion within my international courses would be even better. I quickly jumped on the opportunity to participate in the United Kingdom Study Abroad Program to study international communications. The time I spent studying in the UK and traveling across Europe changed my life completely; my eyes were finally opened to the knowledge I always wanted. I departed from the French airport back to America with a more sophisticated understanding of worldviews and a respect for others that will never be

As an occupational therapist, healthcare worker, and an immigrant, I am a part of diverse communities. Living and working in diverse communities have not only helped me to become culturally competent but also grow personally and professionally.

As the University of Michigan is a prestigious school, the undergraduate college of Literature, Arts and Sciences appeals to many uniquely minded individuals. Meeting successful alumni and current undergraduate students, the quality of education received at LSA fulfill my desires. Pursuing within the Pre-Medicine major, many characteristics of the school prompted me to apply as Early Action as a result.     In the Literature, Arts and Science school, the ability of students to interpret in a broader viewpoint helps to establish diversity within the school.  

Diversity is not merely defined as originating from a different culture. Diversity is everything that makes you unique. In detail, the most diverse part of human life is not only their genes, and where they originate from, but also their experiences, and what helped shape them. Personally, I come from family with very diverse roots. My grandmother is Hispanic, my grandfather, German. And my other two grandparents are of Irish, French, and English origins. I have developed a strong sense of racial diversity due to my family coming from so many different areas. Upon attending the University of Washington, I will add to not only the racial diversity I obtain, but also the socioeconomic diversity of being a minority due to the fact that I am a first generation college student from a lower middle class family. Equally as important, I am a woman in pursuing a medical degree determined to succeed.

This article addresses the call for implementing educational approaches that take into account the societal/cultural diversity of our time. In other words, it addresses educators concerned about making education more sensitive to global development, globalization, and

Personal Statement on Sexuality and Diversity The identities that I have that are defined as norms have some doors for me such as being of the middle class, being slim and fit, being Christian, and being highly literate. These norms have allowed me to work in certain places, work towards my degree and do things that I may have otherwise not been able to do if I did not identify the way I do. The identities such as being African American, female, and being a single parent have made my life harder in some ways. I am judged before people even get to know me because of these attributes.

Over the past few years I have discovered how deeply I want to be involved in politics and international affairs. With those goals in mind, I researched colleges with the best programs for those majors. The college that stood out to me the most was George Washington University. One of the biggest things that stood out was that there is an entire school dedicated to international affairs. This means that there is room for me to grow in any concentration I wish, with a quality staff to guide me along the way. Moreover, it is important for me to be in a diverse and understanding community so George Washington’s involvement with increasing inclusion and creating a culture of cultural empathy makes the school a great fit for me. Additionally, I

I believe that being able to step up to the plate whenever a faculty member needs an extra hand, or if someone happens to not be able to make an event last minute, being able to be there to fulfill that role with no problem, contributes to my uniqueness. A quality like this is important because it shows responsibility, accountability, and dependability. In the interest of being apart of an active program, where students are involved in their neighborhood communities and school community, organization along with such attributes are necessary. The ability able to plan events or trips, such as in the Minority Scholars Program is very important. As a person I remain energized by challenges, meaning when approached with a challenge or obstacle,

I grew up, watching the world’s understanding of my cultural heritage be reduced to ching chong’s and ling long’s, kimonos, and fortune cookies. I grew up, being asked if my parents belonged to the communist party, when I held in me the stories they told me of labor camps they were sent to at the age of 13, of how one day, they couldn’t go to school anymore, of how my grandparents tried desperately later on, long after Mao’s regime ended, to force their children, now adults, to eat copious amounts of food, as if to make up for times when there was nothing to

Since I started this class, I have a learned a great deal about cultural diversity in the classroom and abroad. My perspective has changed slightly but my knowledge of this subject has improved. In my family, my father taught me about the civil rights movement and the evils of segregation in the U.S. My parents taught me to be tolerant of all humans, no matter what they look like, how they dress, or their sexual orientation. My family has always been liberal thinkers who taught me the dark history of racism and bigotry in this country. As an educator I would be accepting to all race, creeds, and religious peoples.

When Western people think of Confucianism, they often think of it in a past sense- as something only relevant to ancient China that cannot be applied to modern day society. However, what these people fail to realize is that Confucianism’s roots have been so integrated into China’s society that the values have become a part of every day life. Without having to explicitly state that they are following specifics aspects of Confucianism, most Chinese people submit to them, often times unknowingly. However, Confucian values not only exist in the Chinese society, but also permeate into other areas of Chinese culture such as architecture and aspects of Feng-Shui.

Confucianism is a time enduring philosophy that has stood up to invading clans, war, resentment, enforcement and infringement of new philosophies, and eventually, revival. For almost 80 years, up until the late 1970’s, Confucianism and its ideas and values have been all but wiped away from China. Though effort was made to remove Confucianism for good from China by the Communist leader Mao Zedong in 1949, the ideas and values were so deeply embedded into peoples mind and the culture that even suppression could not keep it out of the culture and practices. The main factor that has brought Confucianism back into the limelight in China and other East Asian countries is the recent