Effective as of Fall 1991, each student entering the College of LSA is required to take at least one course approved for the Race and Ethnicity (R&E) Requirement intended to address issues arising from racial and ethnic intolerance. When appropriate these courses also may be used to satisfy a general distribution or concentration requirement.
- Required focus
R&E courses must devote substantial but not necessarily exclusive attention to the required content. They may meet this requirement by various means consistent with disciplines or fields of study. Faculty members from all departments are urged to think creatively about how their field might contribute to the requirement. Although it is hoped that many of these courses will focus on the United States, it is not required that they do so. Courses that deal with these issues in other societies, or that study them comparatively, may also meet the R&E requirement.
- Certification of courses
The Curriculum Committee of the College will determine which courses meet the R&E requirement. Faculty members wishing to offer a course that satisfies the R&E Requirement must submit an R&E Course Approval Form along with a syllabus and a one- to two-page explanation of how the course will provide substantial discussion of the following issues:
- The meaning of race, ethnicity and racism.
- Racial and ethnic intolerance and resulting inequality as it occurs in the United States or elsewhere.
- Comparisons of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, social class or gender.
- Facilitation of new courses
The Curriculum Committee will annually collect and make available to interested faculty the syllabi from all courses approved for the program.
rev. May 1995
