Diversity Requirement

The diversity requirement is designed to provide undergraduate students with the background knowledge and analytical skills to enable them to understand and respect differences between groups of people and to understand the potential resources and conflicts arising from human differences on the contemporary American and international scene. Students will increasingly need to grapple with issues arising from different dimensions of human diversity such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and social class. These dimensions and their social and cultural consequences will have important ramifications for students' personal, professional and intellectual lives, both for the time they are students and in later life. Students will gain exposure to analytical frameworks within which these issues are to be understood and addressed, including social, political, cultural, ethical and public policy analyses. It is the university's goal to prepare students through the study of human differences for responsible citizenship in an increasingly pluralistic and diverse society.

Course Requirement

The diversity requirement must be met by all students who began college at USC or elsewhere fall 1993 or later. It can be met by passing any one course from the following list of courses carrying the designation "m" for multiculturalism. In addition to fulfilling the diversity requirement, some of the courses on the list also meet general education requirements in the "Areas of Study;" others also meet major requirements; still others meet only the diversity requirement but count for elective unit credit.

ANTH 215mEthnicity and Place (4)
ANTH 316gmNorth American Indians in American Public Life (4)
ANTH 328gmCulture Change and the Mexican People (4)
ANTH 371mCross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs (4)
ARCH 440gmLiterature and the Urban Experience (4)
ARCH 442gmWomen's Spaces in History (4)
CLAS 320gmDiversity and the Classical Western Tradition (4)
CNTV 192mRace, Class and Gender in American Film (4)
COLT 155xgmThird World Literatures and Cultures (4)
COLT 261gmComparative Studies in Black Culture (4)
COMM 395mCommunication and the Sexes (4)
CORE 104mChange and the Future (4)
ECON 338gmPolitical Economy and Social Thought in Western Culture (4)
EDCO 102xgmHuman Diversity: People, Power and Politics (4)
ENGL 246xgmIntroduction to African-American Literature (4)
ENGL 445mThe Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (4)
ENGL 447mAfrican-American Narrative (4)
ENGL 448mChicano Literature (4)
ENGL 449mIntroduction to Asian-American Literature (4)
ENGL 474mColonial and Postcolonial English Literatures (4)
ENGL 476mImages of Women in Contemporary Culture (4)
ENGL 478mSexual/Textual Diversities (4)
FA 304xgmItalian Renaissance Art: Old Masters and Old Mistresses (4)
FA 376mIntroduction to African Art (4)
FA 377mSpanish Colonial Art and Architecture (4)
GEOG 100gmLos Angeles and the American Dream (4)
GEOG 324gmLos Angeles and the Evolution of Urban America (4)
GEOG 340gGeography of the Chicano Southwest (4)
GEOG 350gmRace and Environmentalism (4)
GERM 350gmEurocentrism (4)
GERO 380mDiversity in Aging (4)
GERO 435mWomen and Aging: Psychological, Social and Policy Implications (4)
HIST 101gmThe Ancient World
JOUR 449mReporting Los Angeles
OT 305gmCulture, Medicine, and Politics (4)
PLDV 100mLos Angeles, The Enduring Pueblo (4)
PLDV 250gmThird World Cities (4)
PLDV 260mPlanning, Diversity and Space (4)
PLDV 315gmUrban Sleuths: Exploring People and Places in Cities (4)
PPMT 406amLos Angeles Mini-Semester (4)
PPMT 408amLos Angeles Semester (4)
POSC 260mGlobal Ethnic Politics (4)
POSC 333gmStigma and Society: Physical Disability in America (4)
POSC 441mCultural Diversity and the Law (4)
POSC 442mThe Politics of Human Differences: Diversity and Discrimination (4)
SLL 190mCultural Diversity in the Russian Context (4)
SOCI 200gmIntroduction to Sociology (4)
SOCI 305mSociology of Childhood (4)
SOCI 342gmRace Relations (4)
SOCI 355gmImmigrants in the United States (4)
SOCI 356mMexican Immigrants in a Diverse Society (4)
SOCI 360gmSocial Inequality: Class, Status, and Power (4)
SOCI 366mChicana and Latina Experiences (4)
SOCI 375m Asian Americans: Ethnic Identity and Social Change (4)
SOCI 376mContemporary Issues in Asian American Communities (4)
SOCI 430mWork and the Workplace (4)
SOCI 435mWomen in Society (4)
SOCI 437mSexuality and Society (4)
SOWK 200xgInstitutional Inequality in American Political and Social Policy (4)
SPAN 413mSocial and Geographic Varieties of Spanish (4)
SWMS 210gmIntroduction to the Study of Women and Men in Society (4)
SWMS 225gmSex Similarities and Differences: A Multidisciplinary Approach (4)
SWMS 301gmIntroduction to Feminist Theory and the Women's and Men's Movements (4)
SWMS 305gmSex/Gender/Sexuality as an Issue in American Public Life (4)
SWMS 364mRacial and Ethnic Women in America (4)
SWMS 384mOvercoming Prejudice (4)
SWMS 385mMen and Masculinity (4)
SWMS 455mGender and Sport (4)

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