The DEI description below was approved by the Chapman University Faculty Senate in Spring 2022 and is used by the Office of Articulation and Transfer to determine DEI approval for courses in transfer. Any course that is not clearly DEI by meeting the requirements below will be referred to the GE Committee for review.
DEI courses address issues arising from intolerance and/or exclusion due to one or more of the following: race, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, and/or disability and align with Chapman University’s mission: helping students to lead inquiring, ethical and productive lives as global citizens.
All courses satisfying the requirement must provide discussion and analysis concerning:
- The existence of intolerance and exclusion due to one or more of the following: race, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, and/or disability, within or outside the United States, and the ways these have been challenged.
- The relationship of intolerance and exclusion due to race, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, and/or disability, within or outside the United States, to the existence of equality or inequality and the ways these have been challenged.
DEI Learning Outcomes
Courses approved for DEI status must demonstrate two or more of the following student learning outcomes are substantially present:
- Interpret identity as multifaceted and constituting multiple categories of difference, such as race, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, and/or disability as operating by individual and group.
- Describe how cultures (including their own) are shaped by the intersections of a variety of factors such race, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, and/or disability and/or other socially constructed categories of difference.
- Recognize the complex elements of intolerance and exclusion on a local, national and/or global scale by identifying historic, judicial, economic, political, and/or social factors, such as ethnocentrism, colonialism, slavery, democracy, and imperialism that may result based on difference(s).
- Analyze and communicate the consequences of elements of intolerance and exclusion based on categories of difference on a local, national and/or global scale.
- Communicate how sociocultural status and access to (or distribution of) resources are informed and impacted by one or more cultural practices within historical, social, cultural, and economic systems.
