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Foregrounding Diverse Perspectives
In this course, we’re going to push to open ourselves up to new ways of seeing the world and its people. Each unit will be begin with an outside reading that will help us center the current unit’s conversation from a perspective that you might not otherwise encounter in a standard textbook. Our goal in doing this is to encourage you to think outside of your normal approach to problems, issues, and culture, and to help us all understand the value that diversity and diverse perspectives bring to our work and lives.
Below you'll find some readings that have been taught by faculty and staff in the past. This is not a mandated reading list, but is provided to give you somewhere to start in your reading selection.
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehsi Coates
The Management of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee
Rules of the Game by Amy Tan
“The Abuelita Poem” by Paul Martinez Pompa “Sonrisas” by Pat Mora