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 215m	Ethnicity and Place (4)
ANTH 316gm	North American Indians in American Public Life (4)
ANTH 328gm	Culture Change and the Mexican People (4)
ANTH 331m	Asian Americans: Migration and Culture Change (4)
ANTH 371m	Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs (4)
ARCH 440gm	Literature and the Urban Experience (4)
ARCH 442gm	Women's Spaces in History (4)
CLAS 320gm	Diversity and the Classical Western Tradition (4)
CNTV 192m	Race, Class and Gender in American Film (4)
COLT 155xgm	Third World Literatures and Cultures (4)
COLT 261gm	Comparative Studies in Black Culture (4)
COLT 445gm	Eurocentrism (4)
COMM 395m	Communication and the Sexes (4)
CORE 104m	Change and the Future (4)
ECON 338gm	Political Economy and Social Thought in Western Culture (4)
EDCO 102xgm	Human Diversity: People, Power and Politics (4)
ENGL 246xgm	Introduction to African-American Literature (4)
ENGL 445m	The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (4)
ENGL 447m	African-American Narrative (4)
ENGL 448m	Chicano Literature (4)
ENGL 449m	Introduction to Asian-American Literature (4)
ENGL 474m	Literature, Nationality, and Otherness (4)
ENGL 476m	Images of Women in Contemporary Culture (4)
ENGL 478m	Sexual/Textual Diversities (4)
FA 304xgm	Italian Renaissance Art: Old Masters and Old Mistresses (4)
FA 376m	Introduction to African Art (4)
FA 377m	Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture (4)
GEOG 100gm	Los Angeles and the American Dream (4)
GEOG 324gm	Los Angeles and the Evolution of Urban America (4)
GEOG 340g	Geography of the Chicano Southwest (4)
GEOG 350gm	Race and Environmentalism (4)
GERO 380m	Diversity in Aging (4)
GERO 435m	Women and Aging: Psychological, Social and Policy Implications (4)
HIST 101gm	The Ancient World
HIST 378m	Introduction to Asian-American History (4)
JOUR 449m	Reporting Los Angeles
MUED 400m	The Broadway Musical: Reflection of American Diversity, Issues and Experiences (4)
OT 305gm	Culture, Medicine, and Politics (4)
PLDV 100m	Los Angeles, The Enduring Pueblo (4)
PLDV 250gm	Third World Cities (4)
PLDV 260m	Planning, Diversity and Space (4)
PLDV 315gm	Urban Sleuths: Exploring People and Places in Cities (4)
POSC 260m	Global Ethnic Politics (4)
POSC 333gm	Stigma and Society: Physical Disability in America (4)
POSC 441m	Cultural Diversity and the Law (4)
POSC 442m	The Politics of Human Differences: Diversity and Discrimination (4)
PPMT 406am	Los Angeles Mini-Semester (4)
PPMT 408am	Los Angeles Semester (4)
PSYC 462m	Minority Mental Health (4)
SLL 190m	Cultural Diversity in the Russian Context (4)
SOCI 200gm	Introduction to Sociology (4)
SOCI 305m	Sociology of Childhood (4)
SOCI 342gm	Race Relations (4)
SOCI 355gm	Immigrants in the United States (4)
SOCI 356m	Mexican Immigrants in a Diverse Society (4)
SOCI 360gm	Social Inequality: Class, Status, and Power (4)
SOCI 366m	Chicana and Latina Experiences (4)
SOCI 375m	Asian Americans: Ethnic Identity and Social Change (4)
SOCI 376m	Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities (4)
SOCI 430m	Work and the Workplace (4)
SOCI 435m	Women in Society (4)
SOCI 437m	Sexuality and Society (4)
SOWK 200xg	Institutional Inequality in American Political and Social Policy (4)
SPAN 413m	Social and Geographic Varieties of Spanish (4)
SWMS 210gm	Introduction to the Study of Women and Men in Society (4)
SWMS 225gm	Sex Similarities and Differences: A Multidisciplinary Approach (4)
SWMS 301gm	Introduction to Feminist Theory and the Women's and Men's Movements (4)
SWMS 305gm	Sex/Gender/Sexuality as an Issue in American Public Life (4)
SWMS 364m	Racial and Ethnic Women in America (4)
SWMS 384m	Overcoming Prejudice (4)
SWMS 385m	Men and Masculinity (4)
SWMS 455m	Gender and Sport (4)

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