DEALING WITH DIVERSITY

Dealing with Diversity
COURSE DESCRIPTION

Dealing with Diversity3 is a challenging and eye-opening experience for anyone who participates in this one of a kind media course. Participants can receive course credit as students or professional development credit as teachers. This allows the series to be offered across various departments from Sociology, Education, Diversity Training, and Multicultural Counseling. Since most school districts require diversity training for all instructors, Dealing with Diversity3 can often fulfill this requirement.

There are a total of 24, 1 hour Closed Captioned programs. The series offers at least one full session covering issues facing the African American, Arab, Hispanic, Asian, European Americans, Native American, and Gay/Lesbian/Transgender communities. The course explores topics such as: Immigration history and Policy, Islam, the Middle East, and National Geographic’s Genographic Project which traces human migration patterns and genetics.

Dealing with Diversity3 is a unique method of delivering diversity training at a distance including the video material, a glossary of words and terms, as well as extras like journal articles and internet websites.

OVERVIEW

The goal of Dealing with Diversity3 is to help viewers understand the constraints and motivations of people with backgrounds that differ from their own. The classes also provide important sociological lessons in the areas of social interaction, social class, age, gender, sexual orientation, the concept of "race", and the sociology of minorities. The programs feature on-site interview segments with people who share their cultures and their lives in American society with the viewing audience. Among the subjects explored in Dealing with Diversity3 are:

The program also features exclusive footage of:

  • Socialization culturally diverse settings
  • The difference in communication between US and foreign cultures
  • The impact of immigration on social policy and employment
  • Sexual orientation issues
  • The lesser-known cultural aspects of Arab Americans, Creoles, and Latinos
  • Discrimination against the disabled

Students experience first hand how people in the same environment are often presented with different challenges. The lessons encourage understanding while they provide the tools and insight necessary for improving intra/inter-cultural relations, both at work and in the community. Through Dealing with Diversity3, students develop awareness that society is not strengthened from striving for uniformity, but by expressing and celebrating individuality.

COURSE MATERIALS

Study Guide:
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY3 STUDY GUIDE by J. Q. Adams, Fourth Edition, Dubuque, IA:Kendal/Hunt, 2008. (ISBN #: 978-0-7575-4772-0)

Textbook:
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY3: THE ANTHOLOGY by Adams & Strother-Adams, Second Edition, Dubuque, IA:Kendal/Hunt, 2008. (ISBN #: 978-0-7575-4773-7)  

Faculty Guide:
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY3 INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE by J.Q. Adams, Third Edition, University Park, IL: Governors State University, 2008. Includes an overview of the course, sample student examination questions, essay assignments and discussion topics.

COURSE CONTENT

Program 1 : Introduction and Overview: Who in the World Is in Here?
Explore your peers’ and your own individual ethnic/racial, religious, and cultural backgrounds.

Program 2 : Social Interaction in Diverse Settings: The SIM’s Model
Discuss how to use the Social Interaction Model (SIM) as an analytical tool for understanding human behavior in social settings.

Program 3 : Negotiating Cultural Communication
Explore some of the varieties of communication styles in the U.S. as well as in other cultures around the world.
  • Studio Guests: Isabel Lamptey, Western Illinois University, and Michel Nguessan, Governors State University.
  • Video Insert: Asma Abdullah and Peter Shepherd, an Islamic couple from Malaysia.
Program 4 : The Changing Face of America and the World
Profile the rapidly changing demographic trends affecting the U.S. and other countries around the world.
  • Studio Guest: Michel Nguessan.
  • Video Inserts: Plaza De Los Angeles; Professor Alexander Astin, UCLA; and Wave Theory.
Program 5 : Immigration and the New Immigrants
Learn the history of Immigration laws and social policies in the U.S.
  • Studio Guest: Fred Tsao, Policy Director at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
  • Video Inserts: Marian Smith of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); White Racialist David Duke; and Marcelo Suarez, former director of Harvard University’s Immigration Study.
Program 6 : Race: The World’s Most Dangerous Myth
Explore one of our nation’s most complex and difficult problems, the concept of race.
  • Video Inserts: Dr. Michael Omi, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
Program 7 : Social Class Issues
The impact of social economics on the lives of families and individuals in the U.S.
  • Studio Guest: Linzey Jones, Mayor of Olympia Fields, and Don DeGraff, Mayor of South Holland, Illinois.
  • Video Inserts: White Flight in South Suburbia.
Program 8 : Gender Issues
Examine the multifaceted issues surrounding gender in our society.
  • Video Inserts: Professor Peggy McIntosh, Wellesley College, and Byron Hurt, Director of the film Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes.
Program 9 : Native Americans
Discuss the current state of indigenous people in the U.S.
  • Studio Guest: Joseph (Standing Bear) Schranz, an Ojibwa from the Midwest Soaring Foundation.
  • Video Inserts: Pow Wow of the Ho Chunk Nation; Native American as well as Euro-American educators from Northern Arizona University; and Little Singer Community School (LSCS), a Charter School located on a Navajo Reservation in Arizona.
Program 10 : Latino Americans, Part I
A profile of some of the many groups listed under the label of Latino(na’s) in the U.S.
  • Studio Guest: Rey Flores, a community activist and columnist for Hoy Newspaper in Chicago.
  • Video Inserts: Chuy Negrette, an ethno-historian from Chicago; Professor Carlos Munoz, Jr. at the University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, director of the Harvard Immigration Program; and Janet Castellanos, a Professor at the University of California at Riverside.
Program 11 : Latino Americans, Part II
  • Studio Guest: Rey Flores, a community activist and columnist for Hoy Newspaper in Chicago and realtor/community activist Fred Medina.
  • Video Inserts: The Ballet Folkloric filmed during a Mexican Independence Day celebration; a mini case study of Beardstown, a small river town in central Illinois with a rapidly growing Latino population; Janet Castellanos, a Professor at the University of California at Riverside, and a film clip from the movie Crash.
Program 12 : Latino Americans, Part I
Examines the challenges facing this unique ethnic group and how its fate continues to evolve in the U.S.
  • Studio Guest: Jesse Jackson Jr., Congressional Representative from the 2nd District of Illinois.
  • Video Inserts: Birmingham Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham, Alabama; a film clip from Crash; Dr. Thomas Parham a Professor from the University of California at Irvine, and Dr. V.P. Franklin a Professor at the University of California at Riverside.
Program 13 : African Americans, Part II
  • Studio Guest: Dr. Cathy Cohen, Director of the Black Youth Project and her graduate student Jamila Celestine-Michener from the University of Chicago.
  • Video Inserts: Byron Hurt, Director of the film, Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes.
Program 14 : Asian Americans
A discussion of some of the many cultures who fall under this label and live within the U.S.
  • Studio Guest: Rey Flores, a community activist and columnist for Hoy Newspaper in Chicago.
  • Video Inserts: Dr. Michael Omi, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky, Director of Diversity Issues at Antioch University New England along with Dr. Farah Ibrahim of Oregon State University, multicultural consultants, Asma Abdullah and Peter Shepherd; and the Korean American community in Chicago.
Program 15 : Middle Eastern and Arab-American Cultures
An introspective look at Middle-Eastern cultures in the U.S. as they appear in the media and are perceived by the American society.
  • Studio Guest: Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Chicago.
  • Video Inserts: Dr. Jack Shaheen’s film Reel Bad Arabs.
Program 16 : Islam
The fastest growing religion in the U.S. is Islam; it is also one of the most controversial as a result of 9/11.
  • Studio Guest: Imam Kifah Mustapha (from a Mosque located in Bridgeview, IL) who is also the Associate Director of The Mosque Foundation and Dr. Aminah Beverly McCloud, a Professor of Islamic Studies at DePaul University.
  • Video Inserts: Dr. Azizan Baharuddin from the Centre for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaysia, and a mini-case study on the Islamic community in Waukegan, Illinois.
Program 17 : European Americans
This program features a segment on the Amish community in Indiana and a profile of Italians in America, looking at their struggles in the past and their dreams for the future.
  • Studio Guest: historian and film maker Dominic Candeloro.
  • Video Inserts: Mini-Case Study on the Amish in the U.S.; and film clips from the movie And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy.
Program 18 : Creole and Mixed Ethnic Americans
A view of Americans with mixed ethnic/racial heritage.
  • Studio Guest: Robin Tillmon, President of the Bi-racial Family Network (BFN) in the Chicago area and the child of an inter-racial marriage and Eric Glenn, the product of mixed-race parents.
  • Video Inserts: Creole culture in New Orleans; and an “inter-racial” couple, Diane and Reggie Alsbrook, who live off the grid in New Mexico.
Program 19 : Ethnocentric Groups in the USA
Examines ethnocentric views which fuel a great deal of decision-making in this in regards to where people live, work, and worship.
  • Video Inserts: Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and a segment from the HBO documentary film, Hate.Com: Extremists on the Internet; David Duke, a White racialist with international connections; and Liebe Geft, a leader at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance.
Program 20 : Sexual Orientation Issues
Explore the world of Gays, Lesbians, Bi-sexuals, and the Transgendered.
  • Studio Guest: Sylvia and Gysbert Menninga, parents of a gay child; Tamara McClatchey, a lesbian professional; and Dr. Alan Sanders, a researcher from the University of Chicago.
  • Video Inserts: None
Program 21 : Physical/Mental Ability Issues
People with disabilities are one of the largest special interest groups in our society and yet one with the lowest visibility.
  • Studio Guest: Robin Sweeney, Disabilities Coordinator for Governors State University and one of her advisees, Marion Kaes, a student at GSU.
  • Video Inserts: Hiram Zayas; and Lenda Hunt.
Program 22 : Age Issues: From Young to Old
Examine age issues from young to old and their social consequences.
  • Studio Guest: Sally Furhmann, Director of the Rich Township Senior Center, Pat Klein, Youth Director for Richton Park’s Youth and Family Center; and Kenneth Kramer, President of the Park Forest Chapter of AARP.
  • Video Inserts: Age Old Stereotypes; Adult Day Care Center.
Program 23 : The State of New South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is one of the world’s newest democracies; it provides a unique mirror image of the U.S. at various in times in its history.
  • Studio Guest: Machiel van Niekerk, Consul from the South African Consulate-General in Chicago
  • Video Inserts: Wilmont James of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) and Charles Villa-Vicencio who worked for the Truth in Reconciliation Committee (TRC); Coloreds in South Africa; and students at the Cecil B. Rhodes High School.
Program 24 : Diversity Issues and Answers
A review of many of the essential topics we have explored.
  • Studio Guest: Dr. Robert D. Martin, Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago.
  • Video Inserts: Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters in New York; and Maurice Ashley, the first African American International Grand Chess Master in the world.
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