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icon_Course Definitions

* Course Grade Tally Sheet Click here to download the EDC 210 course grade tally sheet in Excel spreadsheet format. You'll hand-in this document on the last day of class as a reminder of the points you earned.

_Learning Log Guide (form and instructions for preparing your course Learning Log.)

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_-ISM VIdeo Scoring Rubric The -ism group members will complete the rubric and hand in to the instructor on the day the video is presented. 

icon_Questions on Beals, Fadiman, Johnson, and Loewen Books

icon _Diversity IQ Quiz--Click here to take an on-line diversity IQ quiz--find out your diversity quotient.

icon_Experiential Learning Cycle Graphic

*_Notes/overheads from lecture/discussion on "Social Perception."

*_Notes/overheads from lecture/discussion on "Attribution."

*  Notes/overheads from lecture/discussion on "The Self."

*  Notes/overheads from lecture/discussion on "Teaching Strategies and Personal Strategies."

*  The Eight Questions These eight questions discussed in the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down illustrate the importantce of culture and our expectations in forming the way we see the world.

icon_Notes on "The Road to Brown" video

icon_Review questions for "A Friendly Game" video

*  Pygmalion in Management  (A teacher's expectations are the key to performance and development. This 2003 Harvard Business Review article by former Harvard Business School faculty member J. Sterling Livingston reviews the key elements of this theory and updates his earlier classic article with recent developments in the field. This link is to an on line version of the article for which you will need to log in using your AugNet user name and password.)

icon_Transcript of the definition of "dumb-ups" from Robert W. Terry video "Beyond the White Male Club"

*  Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice  Several recent studies have found that having a roommate of a different race can reduce prejudice, but such relationships are more stressful.

*  Minnesota's Promise  What are the elements of a truly "World Class" education system. This website, developed for educators and policy-makers, looks at the state of Minnesota schools and describes a framework for closing the achievement gap and guiding future education policy decisions in Minnesota.

*  Tolerance Over Race Can Spread, Studies Find  Recent studies suggest that one-on-one contact, under the right conditions, can lead to racial tolerance, and that this tolerance can spread within the community.

*  Race is an Unscientific Concept, Experts Say  The more closely researchers look at the human genome, the more it becomes apparent that the definition of race that most of us hold is unsubstantiated.

*  Children Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC) -- Educational Disparities Website. This site includes a link to a broad developmental and ecological model of family development called "Circles of Influence."

*  Multicultural Experience Enhances Creativity: The When and How  (PDF file of a 2008 American Psychologist article by Leung et al. discussing the conditions in which multicultural experience enhances personal creativity.)

*_Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (Website discussing towns in the U.S. [including Edina, Minnesota] where literally or figuratively, the towns maintain their segregation by saying to nonwhites, "Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You In ___ ." by James W. Loewen, author of Lies my teacher told me.)

*_When Language Can Hold the Answer (A New York Times article discussing recent research on the role of language on perception. This research expands the discussion we had in class about this topic. April 2008)

*_In Professor's Model, Diversity Equals Productivity (New York Times conversation with Scott E. Page discussing the impact of diversity on productivity, Jan. 2008)

*_Putting Your Best Cyberface Forward (article by New York Times reporter Stephanie Rosenbloom discussing today's cyber version of impression management, Jan. 2008)

*  Acts of Microaggression (article by Jessoca Triano discussing below-the-radar racism in day-to-day social interractions, Dec. 2007)

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 Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid (article by Jonathan Kozol, Harper's Magazine, Sept. 2005)

*  Together, apart: A dissection of diversity (editorial by LA Times writer Gregory Rodriguez, Aug. 2007)

icon_Brief list of resources from diversity educator Carl Grant

icon_Oscar Arredondo's "A Mile in My Moccasins: A portrait of Indian images by Minnesota-based Aztec artist Oscar Arredondo

icon_Famous photo of Rosa Parks on a bus in Mongomery, Ala. in 1956 (Was Rosa Parks just a "tired seamstress," or is there more to the story? Who is the guy in the background? Why did photographers just happen to be on this bus?)

icon_The Building Blocks of Memory by Daniel L. Schacter (a newspaper article which reviews the basic elements of human memory)

icon_Breaking the Prejudice Habit by Patricia G. Devine (a transcript of a speech given in August 1996 in which she reviews the latest research findings on prejudice processes)

icon_Comparing Cultural Norms and Values

*  U of Minn. Library Assignment Calculator

This web site assists learners in planning and organizing a large assignment such as a research paper. It helps you break down the key steps and set reasonable goals and deadlines to accomplish your objectives.


 

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