5.3 Multicultural Perspective
Students will develop the ability to:
- Interact across cultures by exhibiting understanding of and respect for the beliefs, values, traditions, and practices of people from other cultures
- Recognize and articulate the different assumptions, beliefs and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds
- Appraise the impact of other cultures on the development of one’s own ideas and beliefs
- Explain the social and historical circumstances that form the basis of the beliefs, experiences and actions of culturally diverse groups
- Demonstrate how differences in race, gender, religion, ethnicity, social class, disability, sexual orientation, and linguistic background contribute to the pervasive realities of stereotyping and discrimination
These courses fulfill General Competency Requirements
Courses
| COM 160 | Intercultural Communication | 3 credits |
| CRJ 219 | Police and Community Relations | 3 credits |
| DST 110 | Deaf Culture | 3 credits |
| ECE 111 | Introduction to Early Childhood Education | 3 credits |
| ENG 217 | Writings from the Margins of Contemporary American Literature | 3 credits |
| ENG 255 | American Literature Precolonial to 1865 | 3 credits |
| ENG 256 | American Literature Post Civil War to Present | 3 credits |
| ENG 257 | Contemporary African-American Women's Writing | 3 credits |
| ENG 259 | Native American Novels | 3 credits |
| ENG 261 | Topics in English | 3 credits |
| ENG 276 | Science Fiction Literature | 3 credits |
| HST 113 | United States History to 1877 | 3 credits |
| HST 114 | United States History from 1877 | 3 credits |
| HST 252 | African-American History | 3 credits |
| HST 259 | History of North American Indian Peoples | 3 credits |
| HST 261 | Topics in History | 3 credits |
| HST 265 | Immigration and Ethnicity in American History | 3 credits |
| HUM 159 | Azorean Literature in Translation | 3 credits |
| HUM 252 | Honors Study of Ethnic Cultures in Massachusetts | 3 credits |
| HUM 254 | Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Movements: Made in Massachusetts | 3 credits |
| HUM 291 | Honors Seminar in Postmodern Studies | 3 credits |
| PSY 261 | Topics in Psychology | 3 credits |
| PSY 270 | Sports Psychology: A Multicultural Approach | 3 credits |
| RDG 101 | Critical Reading and Thinking: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives | 3 credits |
| SER 101 | Introduction to Social Welfare | 3 credits |
| SOC 256 | Race Relations | 3 credits |
| SOC 257 | Social Issues in Loss | 3 credits |
| SOC 261 | Topics in Sociology - Diversity | 3 credits |