IUPUI Campus Bulletin 2012-2014

Undergraduate Programs

Minors

Cultural Diversity

This minor is oriented toward two groups of students. First, it provides a comparative framework for liberal arts and science majors for whom the study of culture, race, ethnicity, or gender overlaps their own disciplines. Second, it serves students in such fields as education, nursing, social work, business, medicine, public affairs, and law who wish to build a multi-cultural perspective into their professional practice.

Courses for the minor explore the genesis and transformation of racial and ethnic categories; the relationship of culture and biology; processes of acculturation and pluralism; the evolution of scholarly thought on human diversity; and ultimately, how it is that any of us comprehends others.

Requirements for the minor are a minimum grade of C in 15 credit hours of course work as follows:

• 6 credits hours of introductory anthropology: A103 and A104.

• 6 credits hours of general courses on diversity, through two of the following courses: B370, E402, and E457.

• 3 credit hours of electives chosen in consultation with the minor advisor from a list of approved courses. This list is on file in the departmental office and includes courses from both anthropology and many other disciplines that concern diversity in general, or specific gender, ethnic, cultural, or other such groups.