Miami University
Courses
 
 
 
 
 
IDS 151
Diversity Seminar (1 credit hour)
  These seminars are designed to enhance the learning environment. We intend to prepare students to live and work in the 21st century, and to educate men and women for responsible, informed citizenship and meaningful employment. The seminars are located in residence halls and designed to create an environment where students learn from each other in an atmosphere of positive engagement, and mutual respect. The seminars also serve to educate students about the origins and effects of racism, ageism, homophobia, religious intolerance, and other forms of prejudice. Through in-depth, small group discussions-facilitated by faculty and staff-the seminars strive to create a climate in which students have the opportunity to challenge and to explore perceptions and stereotypes.

 

IDS 153
American and World Cultures Seminar (1 credit hour)
  This seminar is designed to enable participants to reflect on their relationship to difference and to engage in critical thinking about American and World cultures. The main objective of the seminar is to enhance participant knowledge and understanding of the positive contribution diversity makes in society. Students will be invited to learn about and reflect on the intersection of social identities such as gender, age, race, sexual orientation, and culture. This course has been built around the Speaker Series for the Center for American and World Cultures. Students attend four lectures by eminent scholars, and five-class sessions in which they discuss the lectures, and other writings of these speakers.

 

IDS 159

Strength Through Cultural Diversity (3 credit hours)
  Helps students function effectively in an increasingly diverse global society. With culture defined as "the way we do things around here," conflict is viewed as a natural result of interactions among people. Emphasis on applying the concepts of culture to a variety of countries and to subcultures of the U.S. so that students learn how conflict arises and how negotiation skills can be used to manage conflict.