Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
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Cultural diversity describes the variety of human experiences based on different cultures. This term is used in many parts of our lives including educational contexts, organizations and businesses, the art world, or political discourses and policy making. In this course, we will explore the social, political, and historical aspects of cultural diversity and difference. Through an interdisciplinary social science lens, we will examine the following questions: How do we experience and understand cultural diversity and difference? How do diversity and differences shape and are shaped by systems that affect individuals, families, communities, and society? How do notions of cultural diversity and difference contribute to practices of exclusions or social transformation and empowerment? We will explore these questions by examining the experiences of diversity, and dynamics of oppression and privilege in local, domestic and global contexts.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field. (FB LO1)
- Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context. (FB LO2)
- Develop a sense of the multiple ways culture and human agency can be studied in from an interdisciplinary perspective, including cultural theory, psychology, anthropology, postcolonial theory, and feminist theory.
- Develop an understanding of the complexities of their own and others' cultural being in the world.
- Critically think through different notions and models of culture and its relevance for human self-understanding.
- Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures and the histories of local societies, and the global issues to which these relate. (CCI LO1)
- Students will think critically about cultural and social difference. Students will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities relating to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion or class. (CCI LO3)
Syllabus
Schedule
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | SD-2 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | SD-2 |