Content 1, 2, and 3 must be present (including assignments/ assessments, discussions, lecture, reading materials, etc.)

1. The majority (at least half) of course content focuses on the voices, expertise and viewpoints of non-Western peoples [outside of the Euro-North American world, such as peoples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas south of the U.S. border], including their theoretical, historical, social, political, economic, cultural, geographic, environmental, religious, scientific, artistic, and intellectual traditions and ways of knowing. (Indigenous Peoples are incorporated in the requirement under the Indigenous Peoples Diversity Perspectives category.)
2. Additional substantial, in-depth content examines the intersectionality of voices, expertise and viewpoints, examining how at least one (at minimum) additional element of social identity, including race and racism, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, disability, nationality/geography, indigeneity combine to impact an individual or group’s experience.
3. AND select at least one more from the following:

• • Inclusion of theoretical approaches emerging from post-colonial, neo-colonial contexts
  • Issues of difference with respect to non-Western/global populations and other under-represented groups
  • Contributions of non-Western groups (global populations) to culture and history
  • Terminology, vocabulary, and means of conceptualizing the social world by global minorities
  • The complexity of historical and cultural influences and how they manifest within an individual or group’s identity
  • Anti-colonial or resistance movements
  • Diasporas, migrations, and borderlands

Critical Thinking: (1 and 2 must be present)

1. Evaluate how influences of inequality, power and privilege affect perspectives and ideologies
2. AND select at least one more from the following:

• • Analyze one’s experience when viewing, engaging, or applying the course’s content
  • Examine how our actions influence and are influenced by cultural paradigms
  • Recognize and articulate the ways in which mainstream culture reflects, influences, perpetuates, and resists other cultural ideologies
  • Withhold immediate judgment of a work to reflect on the possible breadth of meanings related to the work before making informed judgments
  • Develop an understanding of the complex identities, histories and cultures of self and others

Content 1, 2 and 3 must be present

The majority (at least half) of course content focuses on Indigenous Peoples, such as (the following are examples and not an exhaustive list):

• • The voices, expertise and viewpoints of Indigenous Peoples, including their theoretical, historical, social, political, economic, cultural, geographic, religious, environmental, artistic and intellectual traditions and ways of
  • An examination of the historical forces that have had, or continue to have, an impact on an Indigenous group or groups either pre- or post-contact with non-Indigenous peoples, including governance, self-determination, and sovereignty
  • An examination of academic research methods based on the traditions and oral traditions of Indigenous peoples, Indigenous research methodologies, scholarship of Indigenous academics, or the traditional processes of knowledge acquisition of Indigenous peoples
  • Elements of modernity which intersect in a significant way with the lives, traditions, and future of Indigenous peoples and persons such as politics, globalization, health, representations in the media, academia, innovations, technology
  • Historical and contemporary governance, self-determination, and sovereignty, federal Indian policy and intergovernmental relations, and policy, politics and administration by Indigenous nations.
  • An exploration of language teaching, perpetuation and revitalization efforts in Indigenous communities.
• Intersectionality: Additional substantial, in-depth content examines the intersectionality of voices, expertise and viewpoints, examining how at least one (at minimum) additional element of social identity, including race and racism, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, disability, nationality/geography, indigeneity combine to impact an individual or group’s experience.
• Additional Content List – select at least one more from the following:
  • Contributions of Indigenous Peoples to culture and history
  • Terminology, vocabulary, and means of conceptualizing the social world by Indigenous Peoples
  • Contributions of Indigenous Peoples to culture, science, the arts, history, philosophy and other aspects of human progress
  • The continuous impacts of colonization influences and how they manifest within an Indigenous individual’s or group’s identity and socio-economic conditions
  • The complexity of historical and cultural influences and how they manifest within an individual or group’s identity
  • Anti-colonial or resistance movements
  • Diasporas, migrations, and borderlands
  • The impact of a nation’s laws and policies on Indigenous Peoples’ sovereignty, nationhood, self-determination, and socio-economic conditions

Critical Thinking: (1 and 2 must be present)

1. Evaluate how influences of inequality, power and privilege affect perspectives and ideologies
2. AND select at least one more from the following:
   • Analyze one’s experience when viewing, engaging, or applying the course’s content
   • Examine how our actions influence and are influenced by cultural paradigms
   • Recognize and articulate the ways in which cultures reflect, influence, perpetuate, and resist other cultural ideologies
   • Withhold immediate judgment of a work to reflect on the possible breadth of meanings related to the work before making informed judgments
   • Develop an understanding of the complex identities, histories and cultures of self and others
   • Analyze the impact of a nation’s laws and policies on Indigenous Peoples’ sovereignty, nationhood, self-determination, and socio-economic conditions
   • Analyze how United Nations instruments and institutions protect Indigenous Peoples’ cultures, religions, languages, property rights, and human rights

Content (1 and 2 must be present) (including assignments/ assessments, discussions, lecture, reading materials, etc.)

1. Select one of the following:
   • Option 1
     • The majority (at least half) of course content focuses on the voices, expertise and viewpoints that center perspectives oriented on gender, sexuality, disability/ableism, or class, including their theoretical, historical, social, political, economic, cultural, geographic, environmental, religious, artistic and intellectual traditions and ways of knowing.
     • Additional substantial, in-depth content examines the intersectionality of voices, expertise and viewpoints, examining how at least one (at minimum) additional element of social identity, including race and racism, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, disability, nationality/geography, indigeneity combine to impact an individual or group’s experience.
   • Option 2
     • The majority of the course content examines the intersectionality of at least three voices and viewpoints, examining how elements of social identity, including race and racism, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, and disability nationality/geography, indigeneity combine to impact an individual or group’s experience.
2. AND select at least one more from the following:
   • Inclusion of theoretical approaches emerging from experiential contexts (includes all of the groups’ experiences identified in (a))
   • Issues of difference with respect to other under-represented groups
   • Contributions of under-represented groups to culture and history
   • Terminology, vocabulary, and means of conceptualizing the social world by other under- represented groups
   • The complexity of historical and cultural influences and how they manifest within an individual or group’s identity

Critical Thinking: (1 and 2 must be present)

1. 1. Evaluate how influences of inequality, power and privilege affect perspectives and ideologies
   2. AND select at least one more from the following:
      • Analyze one’s experience when viewing, engaging, or applying the course’s content
      • Examine how our actions influence and are influenced by cultural paradigms
      • Recognize and articulate the ways in which U.S. culture reflects, influences, perpetuates, and resists other cultural ideologies
      • Withhold immediate judgment of a work to reflect on the possible breadth of meanings related to the work before making informed judgments
      • Develop an understanding of the complex identities, histories and cultures of self and others

Content (1, 2 and 3 must be present) (including assignments/ assessments, discussions, lecture, reading materials, etc.)

1. The majority (at least half) of course content focuses on voices, expertise and viewpoints of U.S. Ethnic minority groups (such as African American, Asian American, Latino/a, Pacific Islander peoples), including their theoretical, historical, social, political, economic, cultural, geographic, environmental, religious, artistic and intellectual traditions and ways of knowing. (Indigenous Peoples are incorporated in the requirement under the Indigenous Peoples Diversity Perspectives category.)
2. Additional substantial, in-depth content examines the intersectionality of voices, expertise and viewpoints, examining how at least one (at minimum) additional element of social identity, including race and racism, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, disability, nationality/geography, indigeneity combine to impact an individual or group’s experience.
3. AND select at least one more from the following:

• • Inclusion of theoretical approaches emerging from critical race theory and similar contexts
  • Issues of difference with respect to U.S. ethnic minorities
  • Contributions of U.S. ethnic minorities in U.S. democracy and western civilization
  • Terminology, vocabulary, and means of conceptualizing the social world by U.S. Ethnic Minorities
  • The complexity of historical and cultural influences and how they manifest within an individual or group’s identity
  • Anti-colonial, Latinx social movements, and resistance movements and struggles
  • Diasporas, migrations and borderlands, particularly in the Southwest.

Critical Thinking: (1 and 2 must be present)

1. Evaluate how influences of inequality, power and privilege affect perspectives and ideologies
2. AND select at least one more from the following:

• • Analyze one’s experience when viewing, engaging, or applying the course’s content
  • Examine how our actions influence and are influenced by cultural paradigms
  • Recognize and articulate the ways in which U.S. culture reflects, influences, perpetuates, and resists other cultural ideologies
  • Withhold immediate judgment of a work to reflect on the possible breadth of meanings related to the work before making informed judgments
  • Develop an understanding of the complex identities, histories and cultures of self and others