US Culture
Expand cultural understanding
Participating in 21st century society means acquiring knowledge and understanding of the world beyond our immediate experience and culture, showing consideration and enhanced understanding for human and cultural diversity, and reexamining our own lives in a global context. Students will learn to analyze regional and international issues and perspectives, enabling them to engage with the languages, cultures, customs, beliefs, and/or behaviors from the world's various communities.
Required Credit Hours: 3
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KU Core 34 Learning Outcome:
Upon reaching this goal, students will be able to investigate and examine cultures within the United States, considering how social identities such as age, ability, culture, language, class, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, ethnicity, indigeneity, and/or race, as well as their related social structures, have shaped and continue to shape cultures and human experiences within the United States.
Institutional Learning Goal (Social Awareness & Cultural Understanding):
Develop a critical and reflective awareness of social, global, and cultural differences (including ability, language, class, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, ethnicity, indigeneity, and/or race)