Certificate in Diversity and Identity in the U.S.

The program in Multicultural Studies offers a Certificate in Diversity and Identity in the U.S., which provides students from all academic backgrounds the opportunity to identify multicultural studies as a particular area of interest. Students will gain a solid foundation in issues of diversity and identity across the many subcultures of the United States as well as their particular area of interest with the discipline. Students will complete six credits hours of coursework that broadly explores multicultural issues and six credit hours of courses that address more specific topics in the field. Finally, students will present a self-selected project to the Multicultural Studies Committee. Classes taken as part of a student’s undergraduate major may be used toward the certificate.

Requirements

Completion of the Certificate requires 21 credit hours, which include a 3-credit hour independent research project, distributed in the following manner:

Three Core Courses

MULC 1100 Introduction to Multicultural Studies	3 hours
MULC 4650 Seminar in Multicultural Studies	3 hours
MULC 4900 Independent Research Project	0 hours

Two Courses from Category One: Broad Study in Multiculturalism

ANTH 3130 Race and Ethnicity	3 hours
EDUC 3150 Education in a Diverse Society	3 hours
ENGL 2086 Contemporary Multiethnic Literature of the U.S.	3 hours
HLSC 3100 Diversity in Health	3 hours
MEDC 2800 Cultural Diversity in the Media	3 hours
MEDC 3800 Studies in Cultural Diversity	3 hours
NURS 4370 Cultural Care Nursing	3 hours
POLT 2070 Politics of Race and Ethnicity	3 hours
PSYC 3650 Prejudice and Discrimination	3 hours
RELG 2420 Religion and Culture	3 hours
SOCI 4475 Class, Status, and Power	3 hours

Two Courses from Category Two: Analysis of Particular Subcultures

ANTH 2500 People and Cultures (with appropriate subtitle)	3 hours
ANTH 4330 Gender and Sex	3 hours
EDUC 2900 The Exceptional Individual	3 hours
HIST 2320 African American History	3 hours
HIST 3060 History Roundtable: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X	3 hours
MATH 4320 Mathematics Methods for Disabled Learners	3 hours
MUSC 3170 Jazz History I	3 hours
MUSC 3180 Jazz History II	3 hours
PHIL 3370 Feminist Philosophy	3 hours
RELG 2500 Gender, Culture, and Religion	3 hours
WOMN 1010 Studying Women Across the Disciplines	3 hours

These lists will be updated periodically. Please see the course schedule book for a listing of any new or topics courses which fulfill the certificate. Other relevant courses may be substituted upon petition to and approval by the Multicultural Studies Committee.