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Dealing with Diversity

www.digitallearning.govst.edu

Helping you recognize and appreciate diversity

in a multicultural society.

Governors State University

Dealing with Diversity

Dealing with Diversity is a challenging and eye-opening experience for anyone who participates in this one of a kind media course. Participants can receive course credit as students or professional development credit as teachers. This allows the series to be offered across various departments from Sociology, Education, Diversity Training, and Multicultural Counseling. Since most school districts require diversity training for all instructors, Dealing with Diversity can often fulfill this requirement.

There are a total of 24, one-hour Closed Captioned programs. The series offers at least one full session covering issues facing the African American, Arab, Hispanic, Asian, European Americans, Native American, and Gay/Lesbian/Transgender communities. The course explores topics such as: Immigration History and Policy, Islam, the Middle East, and the Global Genome Project which traces human migration patterns and genetics.

Dealing with Diversity is a unique method of delivering diversity training at a distance. Training includes the video material, a glossary of words and terms, as well as extras like journal articles and internet websites.

Program 24Diversity Issues and AnswersA review of many of the essential topics we have explored. • Studio Guest: Dr. Robert D. Martin, Curator

of Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago.

• Video Insert: Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters in New York, and Maurice Ashley, the first African American International Grand Chess Master in the world.

COURSE MATERIALS• Texts: DEALING WITH DIVERSITY3: THE ANTHOLOGY by J.Q. Adams, Second Edition, Dubuque, IA: Kendal/Hunt, 2008. (ISBN #: 978-0- 7575-4773-7) • Study Guide: DEALING WITH DIVERSITY3 STUDY GUIDE by J. Q. Adams, Fourth Edition, Dubuque, IA: Kendal/Hunt, 2008. (ISBN #: 978-0-7575-4772-0)• Faculty Guide: DEALING WITH DIVERSITY3 INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE by J.Q. Adams, Fourth Edition, University Park, IL: Governor State University, 2008. Includes an overview of the course, sample student examination questions, essay assignments and discussion topics.

Governors State University – Digital LearningThe Division of Digital Learning and Media Design at Governors State University has been a pioneer in distance education for nearly 30 years. GSU is the first upper division University to produce its educational courseware in High Definition video. To learn more about GSU Digital Learning and our impressive line-up of multimedia courses and licensing rights, visit our website at www.digitallearning.govst.edu or E-mail us at digitallearning@govst.edu.

COURSE CONTENT

Program 1Introduction and Overview: Who in the World Is in Here?Explore your peers’ and your own individual ethnic/racial, religious, and cultural backgrounds.

Program 2Social Interaction in Diverse Settings: The SIM’s ModelDiscuss how to use the Social Interaction Model (SIM) as an analytical tool for understanding human behavior in social settings.

Program 3Negotiating Cultural CommunicationExplore some of the varieties of communication styles in the U.S. as well as in other cultures around the world. • Studio Guests: Isabel Lamptey, Western Illinois University and Michel Nguessan, Governors State University. • Video Insert: Asma Abdullah and Peter Shepherd, an Islamic couple from Malaysia.

Program 4The Changing Face of America and the WorldProfile the rapidly changing demographic trends affecting the U.S. and other countries around the world. • Studio Guest: Michel Nguessan, Governors State University. • Video Insert: Plaza De Los Angeles; Professor Alexander Astin, UCLA; and Wave Theory.

Program 21Physical/Mental Ability IssuesPeople with disabilities are one of the largest special interest groups in our society and yet one with the lowest visibility. • Studio Guests: Robin Sweeney, Disabilities

Coordinator for Governors State University and Marion Kaes, an advisee student at GSU.

• Video Insert: Hiram Zayas and Lenda Hunt.

Program 22Age Issues: From Young to OldExamine age issues from young to old and their social consequences. • Studio Guests: Sally Furhmann, Director of

the Rich Township Senior Center; Pat Klein, Youth Director for Richton Park’s Youth and Family Center; and Kenneth Kramer, President of the Park Forest Chapter of AARP.

• Video Insert: Age Old Stereotypes: Adult Day Care Center.

Program 23The State of New South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is one of the world’s newest democracies providing a unique mirror image of the U.S. at various times in its history. • Studio Guest: Machiel van Niekerk, Consul

from the South African Consulate-General in Chicago.

• Video Insert: Wilmont James of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) and Charles Villa-Vicencio who worked for the Truth in Reconciliation Committee (TRC); Coloreds in South Africa; and students at the Cecil B. Rhodes High School.

Program 5Immigration and the New ImmigrantsLearn the history of Immigration laws and social policies in the U.S.• Studio Guest: Fred Tsao, Policy Director at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. • Video Insert: Marian Smith of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); White Racialist David Duke; and Marcelo Suarez, former director of Harvard University’s Immigration Study.

Program 6Race: The World’s Most Dangerous MythExplore one of our nation’s most complex and difficult problems, the concept of race. • Video Insert: Dr. Michael Omi, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

Program 7Social Class IssuesThe impact of social economics on the lives of families and individuals in the U.S. • Studio Guests: Linzey Jones, Mayor of Olympia Fields and Don DeGraff, Mayor of South Holland, Illinois. • Video Insert: White Flight in South Suburbia.

Program 8Gender IssuesExamine the multi-faceted issues surrounding gender in our society.• Video Insert: Professor Peggy McIntosh, Wellesley College and Byron Hurt, Director of the film Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes.

Program 18Creole and Mixed Ethnic AmericansA view of Americans with mixed ethnic/racial heritage. • Studio Guests: Robin Tillmon, President of the Bi-racial Family Network (BFN) in the Chicago area and the child of an inter-racial marriage; and Eric Glenn, the product of mixed-race parents. • Video Insert: Creole culture in New Orleans and an inter-racial couple, Diane and Reggie Alsbrook, who live “off the grid” in New Mexico.

Program 19Ethnocentric Groups in the USAExamines ethnocentric views which fuel a great deal of decision-making in regards to where people live, work and worship. • Video Insert: Southern Poverty Law Center

(SPLC) and a segment from the HBO documentary film, Hate.Com: Extremists on the Internet; David Duke, a White racialist with international connections; and Liebe Geft, a leader at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance.

Program 20Sexual Orientation IssuesExplore the world of Gays, Lesbians, Bi-sexuals, and the Transgendered. • Studio Guests: Sylvia and Gysbert Menninga,

parents of a gay child; Tamara McClatchey, a lesbian professional; and Dr. Alan Sanders, a researcher from the University of Chicago.

Program 16IslamThe fastest growing religion in the U.S. is Islam; it is also one of the most controversial as a result of 9/11. • Studio Guests: Imam Kifah Mustapha (from a Mosque located in Bridgeview, IL) who is also the Associate Director of The Mosque Foundation and Dr. Aminah Beverly McCloud, a Professor of Islamic Studies at DePaul University. • Video Insert: Dr. Azizan Baharuddin from the Centre for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaysia, and a mini-case study on the Islamic community in Waukegan, Illinois.

Program 17European AmericansThis program features a segment on the Amish community in Indiana and a profile of Italians in America, looking at their struggles in the past and their dreams for the future. • Studio Guest: Historian and film maker Dominic Candeloro. • Video Insert: Mini-Case Study on the Amish in the U.S.; and film clips from the movie, And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy.

Program 9Native AmericansDiscuss the current state of indigenous people in the U.S. • Studio Guest: Joseph (Standing Bear) Schranz, an Ojibwa from the Midwest Soaring Foundation. • Video Insert: Pow Wow of the Ho Chunk Nation; Native American as well as Euro- American educators from Northern Arizona University; and Little Singer Community School (LSCS), a Charter School located on a Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

Program 10Latino Americans, Part IA profile of some of the many groups listed under the label of Latinos in the U.S.• Studio Guest: Rey Flores, a community activist and columnist for Hoy Newspaper in Chicago. • Video Insert: Chuy Negrette, an ethno- historian from Chicago; Professor Carlos Munoz, Jr. at the University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, director of the Harvard Immigration Program; and Janet Castellanos, a Professor at the University of California at Riverside.

Program 14Asian AmericansA discussion of some of the many cultures who fall under this label and live within the U.S. • Studio Guests: Rui Kaneya, managing editor of the Chicago Reporter, and Tuyet Le, executive director of the Asian American Institute. • Video Insert: Dr. Michael Omi, Professor of

Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky, Director of Diversity Issues at Antioch University New England along with Dr. Farah Ibrahim of Oregon State University, multicultural consultants, Asma Abdullah and Peter Shepherd; and the Korean American community in Chicago.

Program 15Middle Eastern and Arab-American CulturesAn introspective look at Middle-Eastern cultures in the U.S. as they appear in the media and are perceived by the American society. • Studio Guest: Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Chicago. • Video Insert: Dr. Jack Shaheen’s film, Reel Bad Arabs.

Program 11Latino Americans, Part II• Studio Guests: Rey Flores, a community activist and columnist for Hoy Newspaper in Chicago and realtor/community activist Fred Medina. • Video Insert: The Ballet Folkloric filmed during a Mexican Independence Day celebration; a mini-case study of Beardstown, a small river town in central Illinois with a rapidly growing Latino population; Janet Castellanos, a Professor at the University of California at Riverside, and a film clip from the movie Crash.

Program 12African Americans, Part IExamines the challenges facing this unique ethnic group and how its fate continues to evolve in the U.S. • Studio Guest: Jesse Jackson Jr., Congressional Representative from the 2nd District of Illinois. • Video Insert: Birmingham Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham, Alabama; a film clip from Crash; Dr. Thomas Parham a Professor from the University of California at Irvine, and Dr. V.P. Franklin, a Professor at the University of California at Riverside.

Program 13African Americans, Part II• Studio Guests: Dr. Cathy Cohen, Director of the Black Youth Project and her graduate student Jamila Celestine-Michener from the University of Chicago. • Video Insert: Byron Hurt, Director of the film, Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes.