Essay on Socs 350 Entire Course Week 1 - 8

This class has been challenging in many ways and has encouraged me to look at ethics and cultural diversity in many different ways. Institutional discrimination, racial discrimination, age discrimination, and gender discrimination is some of the information about diversity in the United States that has helped me better understand and relate to others in ways that I may not have before taking this course.

This course focuses on important to teach students about diversity to help them develop empathy for others. We will read about diversity and cultures to help students understand what diversity really means and how it applies to them. Diversity focuses on race, gender, ethnicity, and cultural and how it pertains to the classroom and everyday life. This course is here to enlighten students of the differences of others and how to be sensitive to everyone’s cultures and beliefs. Consists of developing positive relationships among diverse groups and individuals to fight stereotyping and promote unity (Bank & McGee, 2013).

Does our common reader assigned to the class this semester adhere to the accustomed material when it comes to examining cultural diversity in the class? My conclusion is that our common reader The Trouble with Diversity by Walter Benn Michaels touches upon the social, socio-economic, health, and educational aspect of diversity. Observing how an individual’s status and race makes an impact on how they do in society as well as how they’re treated.

This is not the first time I have done this, and whilst on my exchange I took a module called “Identities, Inequalities and Policy in Contemporary Society.” Throughout the tutorial component of the class, we were instructed to chose a related issue and apply the weekly theories and examples to ours, and share with our groups. It was a natural

Demonstrate the steps that need to be taken when conducting a business unit analysis. Analyze the importance of the business unit analysis in the context of contingency planning.

Diversity has been a main theme within Education 100, and throughout the past eight weeks I have learned about the many ways that diversity applies to education. The first assignment we were given was to complete the Diversity Module, and that helped explain many terms and concepts about diversity, specifically in context to a college campus. Though with the topics we talked about throughout the eight weeks, each one can be applied to diversity in a different way.

For this week’s readings, the syllabus, beginning with the course description I look forward to learning more about minority and majority groups and how each groups factors influence social values. I believe when starting this course most of the class should already have an understanding of these topics based on the fact that we deal with them every day. When we interact with people in our own group and people of other groups we are unconsciously making judgements based on their status just as much as they are too. I believe it is important to be aware of those thoughts and be curious about why we might think that way. From the course objectives and assignments listed, it definitely seems like this class will have each student questioning themselves

This course is helping me as an emerging learner with cultural understanding. In ISS 230 we are exposed to many cultures and how diversity occurs. For example, we learned about England and the Arrival of Empire Windrush in 1948. Just recently after the British Nationality Act was put into place. The Act made it legal for people who lived in the colonies to come to Britain and live as a legal citizen. 492 Jamaican men who served for Britain in WWII came to Britain in hopes of finding work. However, they were met with discrimination and unfair treatment. Based on their cultural differences and skin color. However, overtime this would change, Jamaicans would end up finding work and discrimination would become less serve. Creating a more diverse Britain. Exemplifying how I am learning to comprehend cultural

When the project was first assigned I thought is was going to be a boring social’s project you would get in the junior school that had an even worse topic. However I really enjoyed that the project was on a topic that you could choose yourself and also didn’t have any “right” answer. This allowed me to pick a challenging yet comfortable topic to work on.

| Priority Ranking: 5College of Education faculty strives to create a culture of mutual respect, tolerance, and fellowship among themselves, learners, and PK-12 colleagues. Faculty demonstrates pluralistic cultural behaviors, and learners are provided the requisite skills necessary to become professional models within a diverse culture. Learners implement the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required to meet the needs of students from different cultures, genders, and exceptionalities. Within this nurturing environment, learners express and demonstrate awareness of the important individual and cultural differences that form the rich cultural tapestry of a global society. (COE-GCU Conceptual Framework, 2011).

A class will be required for those who wish to participate in a small group to explain the purpose of diversity and the importance of community. Guidelines for Small Group participation will be discussed (confidentiality,

Starting COMM 1600 – Diversity (United States - U. S) summer, 2018 sounded like a waste of time, an avenue to just make money for the school, and I almost wanted to change my mind from graduating from this University. Getting to know that I have a shorter time to get it done this summer kind of keep me encouraged. More so, scheduled to sit for a long period seems overwhelming, but am glad there was no dull moment when the class begins. Every minute of the class was utilized to discover new things either in history, visual aide (cartons), and discussion across the classroom with everyone participating in sharing experiences and concerns with honest questions to learn more. The instructor has more than enough to share and discussed with every class meeting. Looking back from the first day of class, I can say I appreciate taking the class.

Since every topic is different, we must also understand that diversity is different. There are diversity modules to teach diversity, but one size does not. Fit all. Here we will look at the specific demographics of our region for our students and our faculty and staff. We will look at the retention data, and see our bench marks. Here is also an opportunity to allow participants to here from other diverse people and their thoughts on diversity.

Reflect: Despite my initial apprehensions, I’m looking forward to facilitating this activity with the high school girls coming to Brescia on International Day of the Girl. I found going through the activity myself with my fellow students already taught me many things. First, we found that ethnicity as a category was difficult to even understand what it meant, let alone determine which one was in power. Another category my group had difficulty with was

Throughout our semester together, our Social Issues class has discussed many different aspects of race, class and gender. We have had many opportunities to discuss and share our opinions on different topics and problems we face today. During this course, my outlook on life and other people has changed significantly. The use of projects and papers has further enlightened me to understand the perspective of others. The readings that we have been given each week have proven themselves very beneficial and have assisted greatly in furthering my awareness towards different races, classes and genders.