[DIVR] Courses
Global Cultural Diversity courses introduce students to differences, similarities, and connections among cultures by exploring the multiplicity of individual and group experiences within and across historical periods, societies, and cultures in global comparative context. Courses help students engage and understand social and cultural contexts and interactions across the globe using critical thinking, information literacy, communication, self-awareness, and flexibility in perspective. Using multiple cultural or intellectual perspectives, courses prepare students to address questions about how factors such as history; politics; communication styles; economics; institutions; and/or cultural values, beliefs, and practices influence cultural variation. Courses are intended to help prepare students for lifelong constructive engagement with others in plural societies, promoting the abilities to suspend value judgment in interactions with culturally different others and/or the core beliefs of others; and to negotiate a shared understanding of what produces cultural variation and/or how culture changes across time and/or different geographic and environmental contexts.
Student Learning Outcomes
Students, regardless of major, who successfully complete a [DIVR] course should be able to:
- Understand fundamental knowledge and concepts related to cultural diversity as appropriate to the discipline. (WSU Learning Goal: Breadth of Learning)
- Recognize the complexity of elements important to members of a culture in relation to history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. (WSU Learning Goal: Diversity)
- Recognize the sources and limits of one’s own perspective and cultural rules and limitations in relation to the perspectives of others. (WSU Learning Goal: Critical Thinking)
- Identify relevant sources of information that demonstrate ways that history, institutions, and/or ideologies shape cultural variation and/or different experiences. (WSU Learning Goal: Informational Literacy)
- Evaluate, at an appropriate level, claims or information about cultural diversity based on the sources and the methods used to generate it. (WSU Learning Goal: Information Literacy)
- Communicate about cultural diversity in written forms appropriate to the discipline. (WSU Learning Goal: Written Communication)
Revised outcomes approved Fall 2022.
Available [DIVR] Courses
View [DIVR] courses in the WSU catalog.
| Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Title | Credits | College |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMDT / WGSS | 222 | Fat Studies | 3 | CAHNRS / CAS |
| AMDT | 317 | Multicultural Perspectives on the Body and Dress | 3 | CAHNRS |
| ANTH | 101 | Introduction to Anthropology | 3 | CAS |
| ANTH | 203 | Global Cultural Diversity | 3 | CAS |
| ANTH | 307 | Contemporary Cultures and Peoples of Africa | 3 | CAS |
| ANTH / WGSS | 316 | Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective | 3 | CAS |
| ANTH / AIS | 320 | Native Peoples of North America | 3 | CAS |
| ANTH / AIS | 327 | Contemporary Native Peoples of the Americas | 3 | CAS |
| ANTH / FOR LANG | 350 | Speech, Thought, and Culture | 3 | CAS |
| BIOLOGY | 307 | Biology of Women | 3 | CAS |
| CES | 207 | Race/Ethnic Dynamics and the Corporate World | 3 | CAS |
| CES | 325 | Traveling Cultures: Tourism in Global Perspective | 3 | CAS |
| CHINESE / HUMANITY / JAPANESE / ASIA | 322 | Ecology in East Asian Cultures | 3 | CAS |
| COMSOC | 321 | Intercultural Communication | 3 | Communication |
| COUN_PSY | 457 | Chicano/a Latino/a Psychology | 3 | Education |
| DTC | 206 | Digital Inclusion | 3 | CAS |
| DTC / AMER ST | 475 | Digital Diversity | 3 | CAS |
| ECONS | 428 | Global Capitalism Today: Perspectives and Issues | 3 | CAHNRS |
| ENGLISH / CES | 322 / 332 | Topics in African American Literature | 3 | CAS |
| FOR_LANG | 110 | Introduction to Global Film | 3 | CAS |
| FOR_LANG | 120 | Introduction to Foreign Cultures | 3 | CAS |
| H_D | 350 | Family Diversity | 3 | CAHNRS |
| HISTORY | 120 | World History I | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY | 130 | History of Organized Crime in America | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY / ASIA | 270 | India: History and Culture | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY / ASIA | 271 | Southeast Asian History: Vietnam to Indonesia | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY / ASIA | 272 | Introduction to Middle Eastern History | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY / ASIA | 273 | Islam in Global History | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY / ASIA | 275 | Introduction to East Asian Culture | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY | 308 | North American Indian History, Pre-Contact to Present | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY | 321 | US Popular Culture, 1800-1930 | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY | 322 | US Popular Culture Since 1930 | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY / WGSS | 335 | Women in Latin American History | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY | 361 | American Roots: Immigration, Migration, and Ethnic Identity | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY | 383 | Drugs in World History | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY / ASIA | 377 | Modern Japanese History | 3 | CAS |
| HISTORY / WGSS | 398 | Women, Gender, and the History of the Un-West | 3 | CAS |
| JAPANESE / ASIA / CHINESE / HUMANITY | 320 | Issues in East Asian Ethics | 3 | CAS |
| MUS | 362 | History of Jazz | 3 | CAS |
| MUS / WGSS | 363 | Women in Music | 3 | CAS |
| MUS | 366 | LGBTQ+ Perspectives in Music | 3 | CAS |
| SOC / WGSS | 251 | Sociology of Sex, Relationships, and Marriage | 3 | CAS |
| SOC / WGSS | 351 | The Family | 3 | CAS |
| SOC | 361 | Criminology | 3 | CAS |
| SOE | 312 | Natural Resources, Society, and the Environment | 3 | CAS |
| SPANISH | 320 | Peninsular Spanish Culture | 3 | CAS |
| SPANISH | 321 | Latin American Cultures | 3 | CAS |
| WGSS | 220 | Gender, Culture, and Science | 3 | CAS |
| WGSS / ENGLISH / SOC | 300 / 310 /300 | Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality | 3 | CAS |