Kathleen Burns, UW-Green Bay
Carlos Dejud, UW-Stout
Crista Lebens, UW-Whitewater
Geneva Cobb Moore, UW-Whitewater
Gretchen Peters, UW-Eau Claire
Stephanie Spehar, UW-Oshkosh
Kristin Vespia, UW-Green Bay
Guadalupe Vidales, UW-Parkside
Ezra Zeitler, UW-Eau Claire
Kathleen Burns, Human Development and Psychology, UW-Green Bay - "Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice Course"
The course will look at how stereotypes and prejudice are created, activated and applied, measured, and reduced. In addition, it will highlight the experience of stereotypes and prejudice from the target's perspective, including identification with disadvantaged groups and its effect on the self, effects on physical and mental health, ageism, racism, body image and obesity, and heterosexism.
Carlos Dejud, School of Education, Health, and Human Services, UW-Stout - "Contemporary Issues in Providing Pupil Services to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students"
The goals of this course include: (i) providing knowledge of theories of second language acquisition and its importance regarding placement of English Language Learner (ELL) students in special education programs; (ii) emphasis on stressing linguistic competency to help students gain confidence in pre-assessing ELL students; and (iii) exposing program participants to the contemporary theories and current professional practices for working with ELL students through the coursework content. The course puts a high emphasis on helping participants acquire a rich understanding of educational and psychological service delivery systems from the consumers' perspective.
Crista Lebens, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Misty DeLeon and Amy Michaels, students, UW-Whitewater - "Philosophy of Gender and Race"
This course examines the philosophical assumptions behind concepts of gender and race, and the political effects of these identities, including their intersections. Issues include: (i) Is race a valid biological category? Is Gender?; (ii) What is the relationship between the continued use of these categories and the persistence of racism and sexism?; and (iii) How do these categories, especially their intersection, affect the formation of a sense of self?
Geneva Cobb Moore, Department of Languages and Literatures/Women's Studies, UW-Whitewater - "Black and White Pioneers: Literary Abolitionist Women in the Nineteenth Century"
This course will chronicle the pioneering role that nine women played in revolutionizing the abolitionist movement (1830-1861) through their path-breaking educational and literary productions across the genres of diaries and journals, novels and slave narratives, short stories, travel essays, poems and journalism, and, finally, public lectures and the creation of public schools for freed slaves in the South. The course will be developed for Women's Studies and cross-listed in English and Race and Ethnicity Cultures.
Gretchen Peters, Department of Music and Theatre Arts, UW-Eau Claire - "Representation of Race in Classical Music"
In music department throughout the UW System, music outside of the European-based classical tradition is highly marginalized and the assumption is that this is appropriate. This course will address complex issues surrounding the portrayal of race in three popular compositions within the classical repertoire. The course will consider the representation of three racial groups: non-Christian Eastern Other in Bizet's opera Carmen; Native American in Dvorak's Symphony No. 9; and African-American culture in Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.
Stephanie Spehar, Department of Religious Studies and Anthropology, UW-Oshkosh - "Race and Human Variation: A Curriculum Development Proposal"
Contemporary human biology variation and its implications for concepts of race will be examined in this course. Studies of modern human variation consistently assert that distinct racial categories are not biologically meaningful. However, modern humans do exhibit variation in features such as genetic traits, skin color, body shape, and response to disease. This course will look at the evolution and adaptive significance of this variation and the relationship between human variation and socially constructed racial categories. Students will be directly challenged to examine their own conceptions of race and how and why humans categorize each other into racial groups.
Kristin Vespia, Human Development, Psychology, and Women's Studies, UW-Green Bay - "Psychology and Culture"
In this undergraduate, upper-level course, students will learn about the intersection of culture and core areas of psychology, such as development, social and abnormal behavior, cognition, and personality by considering each of them through a cultural, global lens. Students will be exposed to course content via traditional lectures, discussions, audio-visual presentations, a group project, and in-class activities.
Guadalupe Vidales, Criminal Justice Department, UW-Parkside - "Latinos/as and the Law"
This course will critically examine the various experiences Latinos/as face in the criminal justice system. Topics will include immigration, education, and transnational issues. The course will also describe the purpose, creation, and the enforcement of law. Students will examine the role of law in specific domains of everyday life, such as work, education and political representation and participation, and the role of civil rights strategies in effecting social change through the law.
Ezra Zeitler, Department of Geography and Anthropology, UW-Eau Claire - "Ethnic Geographies Course Development"
This upper-level course will have a particular focus on late twentieth-century immigration to the U.S. and its impacts on the demographic, economic, and social geographies of cities, suburbs, and rural areas. A laboratory component will instruct students how to utilize geographic information systems (GIS) to approach scholarship in ethnic geography from quantitative and qualitative perspectives.