Analysis of Course Offerings (2011 Strategic Plan)

Action Awareness Week, a series of events held in spring 2009 that resulted in the writing of an Actively Anti-racist Administrative Action Plan for the College, demonstrated the need to study and quantify how many of our courses deal with topics related to cultural studies and diversity. Allocation of sufficient resources and faculty time is needed to study our curriculum as it relates to this goal.

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 * I'd definitely like to see more Queer Studies offerings. The Intro to Queer Studies class I was in this spring was very full, and needs to be taught on a regular basis with a smaller class size. More specific class titles, and more diversity within levels taught (as in more 100 level and 300 level classes) are vital to the large amount of students studying some facet of queer studies. -Gaines Blasdel
 * Materials and examples in class need to represent different experiences such as LGBT, POC, and disabled individuals. This includes life drawing and representing a diverse representation of bodies without denormalizing it. This means adding trans models, poc models, short models, tall models, models in wheelchairs, etc. VA 11