Name
Moving General Education Forward to Center Equity and Justice
Date & Time
Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 3:40 PM - 4:30 PM
Timezone
(UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Session Type
Knowledge-to-Action Workshop
Description

This workshop session offers a model of a general education curriculum that includes experiential and diversity learning requirements that promote students’ reflection on issues of power, privilege, and inequity. Participants will have opportunities to explore how general education could be used to promote equity and justice at other institutions. The session will offer examples of service learning and diversity learning outcomes and share sample general education syllabi that incorporate these outcomes from diverse disciplinary perspectives.

|Learning outcomes:

  • Examine a scalable general education model that includes diversity and experiential learning requirements
  • Discuss general education curriculum models at participants’ institutions
  • Examine sample general education diversity learning outcomes and syllabi
  • Strategize opportunities to “move forward” general education in diverse institutional contexts