College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities (CASSH)

This microcredential emphasizes the knowledge, skills and approaches that are necessary and useful for actively seeking out and identifying knowledge of social groups. Students will have opportunities to explore the membership of others in various social categories, develop self-awareness of their own social category membership, and identify the impacts that immersion in one’s own social category has on one’s perspective of others.

Students enrolled in this microcredential will be able to:

1. Identify the multiple groups and stakeholders that may be present in various social contexts.
2. Identify the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, and/or beliefs and practices.
3. Recognize new perspectives about one’s own social group rules and biases (e.g., aware of how personal experiences have shaped these rules; not looking for sameness; seeking complexity; comfortable with the complexities that new perspectives offer).

Select two courses from the following options (must be from two different departments):

• ANT 202 Contemporary Global Issues
• ANT/HIS 312 Peoples and Cultures of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
• ANT 351 Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia
• ANT 354 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
• ANT/RGS 362 Hmong Americans
• CST 332 Intercultural Communication
• CST 334 Gender Communication
• ENG/RGS 207 Multicultural Literature of the United States
• ENG 208 International Studies in Literature
• ENG 220 Women and Popular Culture
• ENG 357 World Literature
• ENG 434 Chinese Discourse
• HIS 240 Survey of Europe
• HIS 250 Survey of Asia
• HIS 260 Survey of the Middle East
• HIS 285 Survey of Modern Africa
• HIS 306 Ethnic America
• HIS 336 Latinos in the United States: 1450-2000
• HIS 359 Women, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe
• HIS 360 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America
• HIS 363 Modern South Asia
• PHL 201 Ethical Theory and Practice
• PHL 336 International Multicultural Philosophy
• PHL 341 Environmental Ethics
• PHL 349 Asian Philosophy
• PSY 282 Cross-Cultural Psychology
• PSY 283 Psychology of Culture and Race
• PSY 318 Psychology of Women
• PSY 319 Men and Masculinities
• RGS 350 Asian American Studies in Race, Gender, and Sexuality
• SOC/RGS 316 Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change in Religion
• SOC 320 Demography
• SOC 369 Sociology of Sexualities
• SOC 370 Sociology of Gender

Keep in mind:

• Courses used to fulfill General Education Program requirement: Minority Cultures or Multiracial Women's Studies (GE Category 03) cannot be used to fulfill microcredential requirements.
• Students must earn a minimum 2.50 cumulative GPA in the microcredential's coursework.
• All credits required for the microcredential must be resident (UWL) credits.

Through this microcredential, students will gain tools needed to recognize instances of past attempts to address bias and/or discrimination within actions, policies, and/or structures, and to evaluate the outcomes of these attempts.

Students enrolled in this microcredential will be able to:

1. Describe the difference between equality and equity, and identify them among social groups (e.g., income, wealth, education, health).
2. Describe barriers to establishing equity among social groups.
3. Identify previous attempts to establish equity among social groups in some social area, organization, or group.
4. Evaluate these prior attempts with regard to their general effectiveness.

Select two courses from the following options (must be from two different departments):

• ANT 215 Refugees, Displaced Persons and Transnational Communities
• ANT 307 International Development and Culture Change
• ANT 375 Language, Power, and Inequality
• CST 337 Communication and Race
• ENG/RGS 210 Literature of Black America
• ENG 311 Critical Theory
• ENG 312 Literature, Medicine, and Culture
• ENG 315 Rhetoric, Health, and Medicine
• ENG 385 Women Authors
• HIS 377 U.S. Labor History
• PHL 337 Social and Political Philosophy
• PHL 339 Medical Ethics
• PSY 343 Group Dynamics
• RGS 314 Race, Gender, and Sport
• RGS 340 Objectively Biased: Knowledge Systems as Power Systems
• SOC 310 Social Stratification
• SOC 311 Rural and Urban Communities
• SOC 325 Sociology of Mental Illness
• SOC/RGS 337 Globalization, Women, and Work
• SOC 404 Global Inequality
• SOC 414 Policy and Society

Keep in mind:

• Courses used to fulfill General Education Program requirement: Minority Cultures or Multiracial Women's Studies (GE Category 03) cannot be used to fulfill microcredential requirements.
• Students must earn a minimum 2.50 cumulative GPA in the microcredential's coursework.
• All credits required for the microcredential must be resident (UWL) credits.

Through this microcredential, students will gain the tools and skills necessary to aid in proposing solutions to inequality in a variety of contexts (labor, economy, civil and human rights, etc.) and to advocate with others for equitable futures within those contexts.

Students enrolled in this microcredential will be able to:

1. Demonstrate the ability to promote others' engagement with diversity.
2. Propose elementary solutions to equity problems based on analysis of major social system elements, including their historic and contemporary interconnections and the effects of human organizations and actions.
3. Articulate a reconceptualization of social systems (e.g., groups, organizations, communities) that are directed toward greater equity.

Select two courses from the following options (must be from two different departments):

• ANT 358 Language Policy and Activism in Europe
• CST 211 Communication and Civic Engagement
• CST 355 Diversity and Organizational Communication
• ENG 387 Literature and Environmental Action
• ENV 304 Topics in Environmental Justice
• HIS/RGS 409 20th Century Civil Rights Movement
• RGS 322 Identity-Based Violence Prevention
• RGS 328 Sex/Work
• RGS 373 Gender and Human Rights
• RGS 374 Poverty as Public Policy
• SOC/RGS 150 Introduction to Social Justice
• SOC 303 Generations and Age in the Social World
• SOC 327 Victimology
• SOC 331 Restorative Justice
• SOC 335 Collective Behavior
• SOC 338 Sociological Aspects of Work and Life
• SOC 345 Race, Gender, and Crime

Keep in mind:

• Courses used to fulfill General Education Program requirement: Minority Cultures or Multiracial Women's Studies (GE Category 03) cannot be used to fulfill microcredential requirements.
• Students must earn a minimum 2.50 cumulative GPA in the microcredential's coursework.
• All credits required for the microcredential must be resident (UWL) credits.