Diversity

Faculty/Advisor Information

Many of the approved diversity courses have scheduled recitation sections, or incorporate discussion into the everyday activities of the course. In addition to these mechanisms for ensuring that students have the opportunity to actively engage issues of diversity, we identified a selection of other techniques incorporated in diversity courses. Some are more novel approaches to active learning (e.g., the use of simulations, active learning techniques), some offer more detail on how small group discussions might be structured in large or small classes, and some suggest ways that discussion can be effectively incorporated in larger classes.

If you know of additional resources that we can post to this website (e.g., your ideas for discussion, examples of active learning, articles on pedagogy), please let us know (smonahan@montana.edu).

Teaching Sociology has many articles that might be relevant to Diversity courses. Some of these are excerpted below. This journal is, unfortunately, not available on-line; it is in the Renne library stacks at HM45.T42.

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Opportunities for discussion in large classes

Making small discussion groups work

Simulations

Formal presentations

Writing assignments that lead to discussion

Ideas for active learning

Other classroom management issues

Opportunities for discussion in large classes

• Discussion groups in large classes, from GEOG 105 – World Geography (Joe Ashley)
• Multiple strategies for discussions in large classes, from NAS 201 – American Indians in Montana (Walter Fleming)
• Panel of experts in a large class, from ANTH 101 – Anthropology and the Human Experience (Larry Carucci, Jack Fisher & Mike Neeley)
• Other strategies for large classes, from ANTH 101 – Anthropology and the Human Experience (Larry Carucci, Jack Fisher & Mike Neeley)

Making small discussion groups work

• Small discussion groups, from NAS 242 – American Indians in Contemporary Society (Wayne Stein)
• Small discussion groups, from PSYC 1XX – Contemporary Issues in Human Sexuality (Tracy Babcock)

Simulations

• BaFa BaFa, from MGMT 245 – Cultural Dimensions of International Business (Susan Dana)
• Exchange and reciprocity, from ANTH 101 – Anthropology and the Human Experience (Larry Carucci, Jack Fisher & Mike Neeley)
• Difference & Discrimination, from Teaching Sociology
• Social structure and the distribution of wealth, from Teaching Sociology

Formal presentations

• Panel discussions, from HHD 205 – Dance as Cultural Expression (Rozann Pitcher)
• International executive briefings, from MKTG 242 – Introduction to Global Markets (Dave Foster)
• Small group debates, from Teaching Sociology

Writing assignments that lead to discussion

• Kinship: Who’s in and who’s out?, from ANTH 101 – Anthropology and the Human Experience (Larry Carucci, Jack Fisher & Mike Neeley)
• Unmasking privilege, social conventions and racism, from Teaching Sociology
• A ‘coming out’ assignment, from Teaching Sociology

Ideas for active learning

• In-class data analysis, from JS 150 – Law, Justice and Injustice (Seth Feinberg & Jason Clark-Miller)
• Research-analysis groups, from JS 150 – Law, Justice and Injustice (Seth Feinberg & Jason Clark-Miller)
• Vignettes, from JS 150 – Law, Justice and Injustice (Seth Feinberg & Jason Clark-Miller)
• Brief ethnographic interviewing, from ANTH 101 – Anthropology and the Human Experience (Larry Carucci, Jack Fisher & Mike Neeley)
• Interpretation of fossils, from ANTH 101 – Anthropology and the Human Experience (Larry Carucci, Jack Fisher & Mike Neeley)
• Analysis of greetings, from ANTH 101 – Anthropology and the Human Experience (Larry Carucci, Jack Fisher & Mike Neeley)
• The poor pay more, from Teaching Sociology
• Critical observation, from Teaching Sociology

Other classroom management issues

• Managing Emotions in the College Classroom, from Teaching Sociology
• Strategies for Improving the Quality of Class Discussion, from Teaching Sociology
• Teaching Uncomfortable Topics, from Teaching Sociology
• Teaching Controversial Topics to Resistant Students, from Teaching Sociology

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