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Social Science Division

Psychology Courses

Participating Faculty:

  • Jennifer Harriger, Associate Professor of Psychology

Participating Student: 

  • Erin Dean

Goals:

PSYC 210: I am interested in updating this course to diversify the course materials and to include anti-racist pedagogy. I am also interested in prioritizing student's sense of belonging and identity. This course includes many classical theories/concepts/theorists, and I would like to include more women and people of color in my presentation of these main topics.


Participating Faculty:

  • Khanh Bui, Professor of Psychology

Participating Student: 

  • Juan Carlos Hughes

Goals:

PSYC 333: Almost all the research on love and like are on heterosexual relationships. Not hearing or learning about how members of LGBTQIA communities experience liking and loving creates a gap in our students' education in human diversity. Our goal is to locate high-quality, peer-reviewed, scientific research articles on how LGBTQIA couples experience liking and loving. 

Social Work Courses

Participating Faculty:

  • Angela Smith, Visiting Instructor of Social Work/Director of Social Work

Participating Student: 

  • Sophie Egliht

Goals:

SW 200: Ensure anti-racist pedagogy is present and supported in our learning. This includes but is not limited to: diversifying our class material, creating predictable routines, individualizing student assignments and assessment measures to include aspects of identity and culture, and establishing a student feedback loop to prioritize student safety and belonging. 

Sociology Courses

Participating Faculty:

  • Bryant Crubaugh, Assistant Professor of Sociology
  • Rebecca Kim, Professor of Sociology
  • Anna Penner,  Assistant Professor of Sociology

Participating Student: 

  • Bryn Sandine

Goals:

SOC 200: Bryn will work with the sociology faculty to address diversity gaps in their SOC200 readings, assignments, and classroom activities. All SOC200 faculty will give her access to the non-grading side of their Courses for a SOC200 class they recently held. Bryn will organize those materials and identify gaps for the department, making note of gaps for individual faculty along the way. These gaps may appear in lack of diversity in a number of ways including predominantly white male authors, the assumption of religion or citizenship in assignments, or perspectives and activities that are exclusionary to minoritized students.