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;

Anthropology
course (8); Introduction to Anthropology, 3 Cr.
course (5); Introduction to Prehistoric Cultures, 3 Cr.
course (3); Human Origins, 3 Cr.
course (5); Indians of the Americas, 3 Cr.
course (5) (8); Introductory Cultural Anthropology, 3 Cr.

Art
course (6) (8); Introduction to the Visual Arts of the World, 3 Cr.
course (8) (Diversity): Asian Art History, 3 Cr.
course (8) (Diversity): African Art History, 3 Cr.
course (8) (Diversity): Art History of the Americas, 3 Cr.

Art Education
course (8) (Diversity): Folk, Ethnic, and Indigenous Art, 3 Cr.

Astronomy
course (3) (8); Archeoastronomy, 3 Cr.

Atmospheric, Earth, and Geospatial Sciences
course (8); Introduction to Global Geography, 3 Cr.
course (6); Introduction to Cultural Geography, 3 Cr.

Behavior Health and Counseling
course (7) (RIGR); Cultural Competence in Human Services, 3 Cr.

Biological Sciences
course (3); Cultural Botany, 3 Cr.
course (3); Biology of Women, 3 Cr.

Community Development
course (5)(7) (RIGR); Diversity in the American Experience, 3 Cr.

Communication Studies
course (8); Intercultural Communication, 3 Cr.

Early Childhood Education
course (8); Children in a Changing World, 3 Cr.

Economics
course (8); Economics of Developing Countries, 3 Cr.

English
course (6); Gender Issues in Literature, 3 Cr.
course (6); American Indian Literature, 3 Cr.
course (6) (7) (RIGR); African American Literature, 3 Cr.
course (6); Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Literature, 4 Cr.

Ethnic Studies
course (7) (RIGR); Race in America, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR); Introduction to Ethnic 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; African American Cultural Expressions, 3 Cr.
course (7) (RIGR); American Indians in the Social Science Curriculum, 3 Cr.
course (5) (6); Asian Pacific Americans in Popular Culture, 3 Cr.
course; Major Works in African American Studies, 3 Cr.

History
course (5) (8); Historical Studies, 3 Cr.
course (5) (7) (RIGR); Race in America, 3 Cr.
course (5); America to 1865, 3 Cr.
course (5); United States Since 1865, 3 Cr.
course (5); American Indian History, 3 Cr.
course (5); Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, 3 Cr.

Human Relations and Multicultural Ed.
course, Human Relations for Teachers I, 3 Cr.
course, Human Relations for Teachers II, 1 Cr.

Information Science
course (8); Social Media in a Global Context, 3 Cr.

Japanese
course (6) (8); Elementary Japanese I, 4 Cr.
course (6) (8); Elementary Japanese II, 4 Cr.

Jewish Studies
course; Anti-Semitism in America, 3 Cr.

Mass Communications
course (6); American Television and Cultural Diversity, 3 Cr.
course (6); Documentaries of the Holocaust, 3 Cr.

Nursing
course (RIGR) Cross-Cultural Nursing and Global Health, 3 Cr.

Professional Police Officer Education
PPOE1110 (3) (RIGR); Crime and Justice in America, 3 Cr.

Psychology
course (5); Psychology of Women, 3 Cr.

Political Science & International Relations
course (7) (RIGR); U.S. Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, 3 Cr.
course (9); Women in Politics, 3 Cr.
course (8); African Government and Politics, 3 Cr.
course (8); Emerging Political Issues in the Nonwestern World, 3 Cr.
course (8); Politics of the Arab Peninsula, 3 Cr.

Social Sciences
course(5) (9); Social Problems, 3 Cr.
course (5) (10), Environmental Sociology, 3 Cr.

Special Education
course (5); Exceptionalities and Human Diversity, 3 Cr.

Speech Language Health Sciences
course (5); Introduction to Human Communication Disorders, 3 Cr.