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Draft List of Recommended Courses Already in the CR Catalog that May Qualify as Meeting the
New Multicultural Understanding Requirement
Multicultural and Diversity Committee
April 4, 2014
The proposal for a new General Education Requirement Area E, Multicultural Understanding
was passed by the Academic Senate on March 7, 2014.
Before implementing this requirement, the next steps to be taken have been identified as:
 Develop criteria that will be used to determine if new or updated courses can meet this
requirement;
 Determine what existing courses already satisfy the criteria for this requirement.
The MDC has an opportunity to contribute to the discussion by identifying such criteria and/or
identifying courses and making our recommendations to the Curriculum Committee. Below is a
list of courses that may meet the requirement. The list is in two parts. First, courses extracted
from HSU’s Diversity and Common Ground List, that are lower division and that appear to have
a CR ‘equivalent’ are in the left hand column, with the proposed CR equivalent in the right hand
column. The HSU requirement is twofold: students must take a class with a ‘domestic’ focus
AND one with a ‘non-domestic’ focus. The second list is of CR courses that do not appear to
have an HSU equivalent on the DCG list, but that may still satisfy the requirement.
First task: Review the course listings below and determine their validity as Area E candidates.
Second task: Review the attached DCG list from HSU and see if there are any courses that have
CR equivalents that are not included below.
Third task: Review the CR Catalog for other courses that may qualify for the list.
HSU DCG List
Domestic
NAS 104 Introduction to Native American
Studies Area D-LD
SW 104 Introduction to Social Work Area DLD
WS 106 Introduction to Women’s Studies Area
D-LD
Non-Domestic
ART 100 Global Perspectives in Art Area CLD
GEOG 105 Cultural Geography Area D-LD
RS 105 World Religions Area C-LD
CR Equivalent?
NAS 1 Introduction to Native American
Studies
SOC 34 Introduction to Social Work
SOC 9 Introduction to Women’s Studies
ART 1B Art History: Renaissance to
Contemporary
GEOG 2 Cultural Geography
PHIL 15 Religions of the World
CR Alone?
ANTH 3 Cultural Anthropology
CINE 3 Cinemas of Latin America, Asia and Africa
5.1a
ENGL 9 World Literature: Early Modern to 20th Century
HIST 12 History of Women in America
HIST 21 World History: 1500 AD to Present
SOC 5 Introduction to Race and Ethnic Relations