SCSU Diversity Courses
Each student must complete three courses designated as Diversity courses and one course which satisfies the Racial Issues Graduation Requirement (RIGR). Students may take no more than one Diversity course from any one department. In many cases, the course that satisfies RIGR also counts as a Diversity course.
The diversity requirement will be prorated with the number of LEP credits a student transfers to the university.
0-19 LEP credits transferred - students take 3 diversity courses; 1 is RIGR course
20-29 LEP credits transferred - students take 2 diversity courses; 1 is RIGR course
30-39 LEP credits transferred - students take 1 RIGR course
40+ LEP credits - students take 1 RIGR course
The following courses are pre-approved to fulfill the Diversity requirements and further indicate what goal area(s) of the Liberal Education Program (LEP) or Racial Issues Graduation Requirements (RIGR) the course fulfills;
AFST250 (8), Introduction to African Studies, 3 Cr.
ANTH101 (8), Introduction to Anthropology, 3 Cr.
ANTH130 (5), Introduction to Prehistoric Cultures, 3 Cr.
ANTH140 (3): Human Origins, 3 Cr.
ANTH188 (5), Indians of the Americas, 3 Cr.
ANTH250 (5) (8), Introductory Cultural Anthropology, 3 Cr.
ART131 (6) (8), Introduction to the Visual Arts of the World, 3 Cr.
ART433 (6) (8), Asian Art History, 3 Cr.
ART434 (6) (8), African Art History, 3 Cr.
ART435 (6) (8), Art History of the Americas, 3 Cr.
ART490 (6) (8), Folk, Ethnic, and Indigenous Art, 3 Cr.
ASTR120 (3) (8): Archaeoastronomy, 3 Cr.
BIOL106 (3): Cultural Botany, 3 Cr.
BIOL107 (3): Biology of Women, 3 Cr.
CFS260 (8), Children in a Changing World, 3 Cr.
CJS111 (5), Crime and Justice in America, 3 Cr.
CMTY222 (5) (7) (RIGR), Diversity in the American Experience, 3 Cr.
CMST330 (8), Intercultural Communication, 3 Cr.
CPSY384 (7) (RIGR), Cultural Competence in Human Services, 3 Cr.
CSD130 (5) (7), Introduction to Human Communication Disorders, 3 Cr.
CSD230 (8), Global Perspectives on Communication Disorders, 3 Cr.
EAST250 (5) (8), Introduction to East Asia, 3 Cr.
ECON350 (8), Economics of Developing Countries, 3 Cr.
ENGL203 (6), Gender Issues in Literature, 3 Cr.
ENGL215 (6), American Indian Literature, 3 Cr.
ENGL216 (6) (7) (RIGR), African American Literature, 3 Cr.
ENGL305 (6), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Literature, 4 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR), Race in America, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR), Introduction to Ethnic Studies, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR), Introduction to Chicano(a Studies, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR), Introduction to American Indian Studies, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR), Introduction to Asian American Studies, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR), Introduction to African American Studies, 3 Cr.
course (7), African American Cultural Expressions, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR), American Indians in the Social Science Curriculum, 3 Cr.
ETHS335 (5), Asian Pacific American Women, 3 Cr.
ETHS345 (5) (6), Asian Pacific Americans in Popular Culture, 3 Cr.
course (7), Major Works in African American Studies, 3 Cr.
ETHS425 (5), Contemporary Asian Pacific American Issues, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR), The Black Community, 3 Cr.
ETS183 (5) (8), Technology and Third World Development, 3 Cr.
GERO208 (5), Introduction to Gerontology, 3 Cr.
GEOG111 (8), Introduction to Global Geography, 3 Cr.
GEOG270 (6), Introduction to Cultural Geography, 3 Cr.
GERO405 (5), Aging and Diversity, 3 Cr.
GERO415 (5), Women and Aging, 3 Cr.
GERO420 (9), Ethics in Gerontology and Geriatrics, 3 Cr.
GERO470 (5) (8), Global Aging, 3 Cr.
GWS201 (5), Introduction to Gender & Women's Studies, 3 Cr.
GWS220 (7) (RIGR), Race and Gender in the U.S., 3 Cr.
HIST106 (5) (8), Historical Studies, 3 Cr.
HIST109 (5) (7) (RIGR), Race in America, 3 Cr.
HIST140 (5) (7), America to 1865, 3 Cr.
HIST141 (5) (7), United States Since 1865, 3 Cr.
HIST150 (5) (8), Twentieth Century World, 3 Cr.
HIST352 (5) (7), American Indian History, 3 Cr.
HIST358 (5) (7), Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, 3 Cr.
HIST420 (7), Colonial North America, 3 Cr.
HURL102 (7) (RIGR), Human Relations and Race, 3 Cr.
course (9), Non-Oppressive Relationships I, 3 Cr.
IM204 (8), Research Strategies in a Changing World, 3 Cr.
JPN101 (6) (8), Elementary Japanese I, 4 Cr.
JPN102 (6) (8), Elementary Japanese II, 4 Cr.
JWST180 (7), Anti-Semitism in America, 3 Cr.
LAST250 (5) (8), Introduction to Latin America, 3 Cr.
LIB290 (8), Social Media in a Global Context, 3 Cr.
MCOM146 (6), American Television and Cultural Diversity, 3 Cr.
MCOM275 (6), Documentaries of the Holocaust, 3 Cr.
MUSM125 (6) (8), Music in World Culture, 3 Cr.
PHIL111 (6) (8), Multicultural Philosophy, 3 Cr.
PHIL211 (6) (8), Philosophy and Feminism, 3 Cr.
PHIL328 (9), Bioethics, 3 Cr.
PHIL329 (9), Ethics in Professional Communication, 3 Cr.
PSY225, (5) Psychology of Women, 3 Cr.
POL310 (7) (RIGR), U.S. Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, 3 Cr.
POL320 (9), Women in Politics, 3 Cr.
POL335 (8), African Government and Politics, 3 Cr.
POL337 (8), Emerging Political Issues in the Nonwestern World, 3 Cr.
POL434 (8), Politics of the Arab Peninsula, 3 Cr.
POL436 (8), Southeast Asian Governments and Politics, 3 Cr.
REL100 (6) (8), World Religions, 3 Cr.
REL180 (7), Religion: Race and Racism, 3 Cr.
REL225 (8), Asian Religions, 3 Cr.
SOC111 (5) (9), Social Problems, 3 Cr.
SOC200 (5) (10), Environmental Sociology, 3 Cr.
SOC211 (5), Crime Myths and Media, 3 Cr.
SOC268 (7) (RIGR), Race and Ethnicity, 3 Cr.
SOC273 (5) (8), Sociology of Gender, 3 Cr.
SOC276 (5) (8), Families and Globalization, 3 Cr.
SPED203 (5), Exceptionalities and Human Diversity, 3 Cr.