This course supports Salisbury University’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Therefore, it focuses on or addresses in some measure race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion and spirituality, ability/disability, nationality and/or ethnicity - to list just a few ways to name diversity – as intersecting subjects of study. We all share responsibility for the education process through engaged participation, and one of the best ways that we can learn from one another is by creating a learning environment of respect, compassion, honesty, and openness, and interest in one another and our beliefs, opinions, and ideas.
As the professor, I am also accountable for teaching you how to thoughtfully express and evaluate ideas. Developing the skills to articulate your ideas and support them with evidence is an important aspect of this class and college and necessary life skill. If we fail to meet the expectations outlined in this statement at any time, please let me know as soon as possible. As your instructor, I am committed to supporting every student in the class in their progress towards these stated goals and objectives.
Any student who has difficulty affording groceries or accessing sufficient food to eat every day, or who lacks a safe and/or stable place to live, and believes this may affect their performance in the course, is urged to contact the Student Affairs Office (410-543-6080 or via email for support. information on emergency fund grants may be found here. In addition, there is a Food for the Flock free student food pantry on campus located on the basement floor of the Dining Commons by the SU Bookstore,1204 Camden Ave. They may be contacted via email.
Many people might go by a name in daily life that is different from their legal name. In this classroom, we seek to refer to people by the names that they go by. Pronouns can be a way to affirm someone's gender identity, but they can also be unrelated to a person's identity. They are simply a public way in which people are referred to in place of their name (e.g. "he" or "she" or "they" or "ze" or something else). In this classroom, you are invited (if you want to) to share what pronouns you go by, and we seek to refer to people using the pronouns that they share. The pronouns someone indicates are not necessarily indicative of their gender identity.
(The Forms of Address syllabus statement was created by the University of Maryland Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equity Center).
Readings on the History of Hate in America: The history of racism and ethnic hate in America is long and deep. What are the cultural, economic, and political currents that led us here?
I have begun this syllabus as an act of resistance for and alongside my trans* kin and our accomplices. I also sincerely hope people will use the syllabus, and this will reduce the amount of cisgender people who feel the need to ask what they can do to learn about trans* populations, as if: (1) we haven’t always already been in your midst; (2) empirical, affirmative-based research has not existed for quite some time; and (3) cisgender people should take it upon themselves to answer their own question rather than requiring trans* people to do the (additional unpaid) labor for them.
Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created "Project Implicit" to develop Hidden Bias Tests—called Implicit Association Tests, or IATs, in the academic world—to measure unconscious bias.
Take Look Different's Implicit Association Tests on race, gender and sexual orientation – featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Kendrick Lamar, Kelly Rowland, Cara Delevingne and more – to uncover your own biases. This quiz, created in partnership with Project Implicit, requires you to sort pictures or words into groups as fast as you can.
...this guide summarizes some of the common challenges instructors may encounter and offers five broad pedagogical principles for teaching racial justice, and three possible strategies for implementing each strategy in the classroom.
Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.