2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Oct 07, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Diversity and Social Inequality Graduate Certificate


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Program Description

The Graduate Certificate in Diversity and Social Inequality is designed to addresses the forms, consequences and impact of diversity in modern society. Coursework allows students to analyze the social benefits of diversity and the individual, interactional, and structural factors that link it to enduring forms of social inequality. Finally, capstone options allow students to participate in applied learning opportunities (research methodology, teaching pedagogy, or topical specialization), that inspire positive social engagement, innovation, and change.

Program Learning Objectives

Students enrolled in this certificate program will learn to:

  • Utilize social science data to document patterns of social inequality across a wide variety of social identity categories.
  • Demonstrate cross-cultural understanding and intercultural awareness.
  • Recognize patterns of prejudice, discrimination, and features of social environments that can exacerbate or improve social inequality.
  • Appreciate the impact of diverse social identities for individual well-being and life chances.

Program Learning Outcomes

As a result of their learning experience, students who complete a Diversity and Social Inequality certificate can:

  • Critically engage with information about diverse human groups and patterns of social inequality across a wide variety of identity categories.
  • Develop tools for increasing cross-cultural understanding and intercultural awareness.
  • Identify micro, meso, and macro-level features of the social environment that shape and constrain social equality.

For more detailed information about this certificate, contact the Sociology & Anthropology program, 937-775-2667 or email us at sossis@wright.edu.

For More Information

Program Requirements:


Category A: 3 Hours


Choose 3 hours from:

Diversity & Social Inequality Capstone Experience (Research Capstone,  Independent Study in Teaching Introductory Sociology, or Topical Specialization)

Category B: 6 Hours


Choose 6 hours from:

Fundamental Categories of Diversity and Social Inequality

Category C: 6 Hours


Choose 6 hours from:

Advanced Exploration in Diversity & Social Inequality

Total: 15 Hours


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