HU140 All Units Discussions latest 2018 September
HU140 All Units Discussions latest 2018 September
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HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 1 Discussion
Course Introduction and Knowledge Exploration
As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and
your peers, please post the following:
Your name and a description of your current job. (If not
employed, what are your expectations when you complete your program?)
What degree are you pursuing?
A photo of yourself (self-portrait, or family, action photo)
Instructions:
Please watch the “Like A Girl” video. In your initial post,
please identify the different stereotypes that girls and women are subjected to
in this video and say how they respond to stereotypes about them.
How do they interpret the phrase “like a girl”? Why?
What differences do you see between the young girls and the
young women?
Why do you think this is?
What impact or influence does this phrase have on a young
girl? Why?
What could be done to change the perception that using
stereotypes like this is acceptable?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 20 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable.
Unit 1 Peer Response
Please respond to at least 2 of your peers responses in the
Unit 1 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
When responding to your peers posts consider the “#LikeAGirl
“ video. Please say if you think that you have been subjected to a similar
experience or have seen another person/other people treated in this way.
How did it make you or the other person feel? What did you
or the other person/other people do about it?
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 2 Discussion
Stereotypes, as we have come to understand, are assumptions
that some individuals have about certain groups. Stereotypes can span across
race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference, and other areas. We have
also come to understand that individuals within these different groups face
stereotype threat, or the risk of people feeling they are conforming to the
stereotypes that exist about their social group. In your initial discussion
post for this unit consider the impact that stereotype threat can have on an
individual and respond to the questions below:
What influence might stereotype threat have on an
individual? What might this influence in their life? Why?
What would be the importance of having conversations across
different social groups about how stereotype threat impacts them? Would a
conversation of this nature be beneficial? Why or why not?
What steps could be taken to change the influence that
stereotype threats have within a cultural group?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 2 Peer Response
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 2 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
In your discussion post response’s this week address the
following with your peer’s:
What is the importance of being aware of individuals who
might face stereotype threat in their life?
What would be the best way to address stereotype threat
within a group? As an individual? Why?
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 3 Discussion
For your discussion posts this week, please watch the short
video posted in Unit 3 Discussion, National Congress of American Indians. Then,
please consider the ways that the National Congress of American Indians, which
created this video, demonstrates concern for how American Indians are portrayed
in American sports. Please justify your initial response with sound reasoning.
In your post, you are also invited to consider other uses of different ethnic
backgrounds, cultures, and images in all sports (professional, collegiate, and
otherwise) to see if you think any use of these backgrounds is acceptable–and
why you think what you do.
What does this video seek to communicate, and how does it
try to convey its message? Consider different images and words used in the
video to address this point.
To what extent can or should words and names like “Redskins”
be used in American culture, specifically regarding sports?
What impact does this have on Native American culture? On
Native American people?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 3 Peer Response
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 3 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
When responding to your peers posts consider the perspective
of a Native American:
How would it make you feel if your heritage was represented
in a negative way the misrepresented your cultural history? Is it appropriate
or not?
What steps could be taken to listen to and address the
feelings of the Native Americans shared in the video? What would you do in the
instance someone didn’t agree with you?
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 4 Discussion
Langston Hughes was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance
era, which was a hub of literary, musical, poetical, and philosophical
liveliness in Harlem, New York, from the 1920s through the 1930s. A poet,
essayist, and intellectual, Hughes is known for his poems that articulate
challenges that African Americans and others have faced in the United States.
For your discussion post this week, please view the two
videos sharing short poems by Hughes in Unit 4. The poems are “Let American Be
America Again” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”. You are welcome to analyze the elements you
chose in many different ways here, so long as they reflect sincere engagement
with these poems. (For example, you may use personal reflections and/or
reflections about people you know, or you may offer other kinds of comments
about the concerns and hopes of Hughes in his poems.)
After reflecting on their imagery and messages incorporate
these concepts into your post:
Identify at least two images, metaphors, similes, or other
literary elements from the poems and say how you understand them in the context
of what you see as Hughes’s message(s) in these poems.
Consider, for example, what it means for a dream to dry up
“like a raisin in the sun” (“Harlem”), what it means for a soul to have “grown
deep like the rivers,” in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”), or “I am the worker
sold to the machine,” in “Let America Be America Again”).
Please note: These examples are only examples; you can use
any lines from any of the poems that you want.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 4 Peer Response
When responding to your peers posts consider the perspective
of a Native American:
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 3 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
In your response, consider the literary elements that your
student peers have identified from Hughes poems. Then, please say what you make
of these literary elements in light of Hughes’ messages in his poetry. Consider
the following:
Do you find them relevant to today’s world?
Challenging to your beliefs?
Connecting to those beliefs?
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 5 Discussion
For this discussion post you need to watch “Manifest:Justice
– Art for Social Change” in the unit 5 content. This video highlights a 10 day
“pop-up” art and cultural exhibit that took place in Los Angeles. As stated by
the organizers (Amnesty International USA, 2015):
“MANIFEST:JUSTICE is
a creative community exhibition that elevates and illuminates the ongoing
conversation about race, mass incarceration, police accountability, racial
profiling, healthy communities and gun violence. The themes of MANIFEST:JUSTICE
are justice, human rights, power and dignity for all”.
So you can see the purpose of the event was to bring light
to perceived injustices and promote social justice for those affected by them.
Art and cultural exhibits served as the medium for which the message was to be
told.
Instructions:
With the understanding of the purpose of the event please
respond to the following questions. As you respond, please consider the
perspective of the artists, exhibits, and viewpoints shared in the video in relation
to social justice.
Why might artists create art for and in public spaces in
order to raise awareness and consciousness about different social issues? In
your response please use at least one example (from the video, your own
community or a different resource) in order to illustrate your points.
Also, you are welcome to include images or descriptions of
social justice art from your community or that you’ve seen first-hand or have
been interested in from afar.
One point made in the video was that even if you had a
different opinion or disagreed with someone on a certain topic, respect was
still required amongst people who don’t share the same view. Why is this
important in social justice causes? What benefit would this provide for those
seeking social justice?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 5 Peer Response
Instructions:
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 5 discussion board. . As you respond, please consider the perspective of
the artists, exhibits, and viewpoints shared in the video in relation to social
justice. Also use these questions to guide you in your responses to a peers
post:
How does art make an impact on social justice?
Can art truly be effective at spreading the message of
social justice?
Include at least one open ended question for additional
student responses.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 6 Discussion
In content in this unit you have explored and discovered
many aspects of diversity in the workplace. The importance of companies having
an understanding of diversity, and its impact in all facets of the culture of
that company, are key factors to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace
environment. With that in mind please address the following prompts in you discussion
prompt this week.
What are the challenges when an organization practices
valuing diversity and inclusion? How can the challenges be overcome?
Is it the responsibility of the employer to ensure a work
environment which is bias-free and inclusive for all employees? Why or Why not?
Does any responsibility fall onto the employee’s themselves?
How can strategies be developed to increase diversity and
inclusion within the workplace? How can they be achieved?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 6 Peer Response
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 3 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
As you respond to a peer’s post consider the following:
What role does diversity play in promoting a safe work
environment?
What role do the employee’s have in creating an diverse and
inclusive environment?
Write at least one open ended question, in reference to your
peer’s post, that can continue the conversation.
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 7 Discussion
You have already watched the video Man and Beast by Alan
Rabinowitz in a previous topic. With the story of this video in mind think
about the questions below. For the discussion board this week please address
the following in your post:
What works well in this story? Is the tone, delivery, and
mood effective in telling the story?
Which parts stand out to you the most, and why?
Please offer any comments about the story that you think are
important or noteworthy
What elements from this story could be used in creating and
writing your own personal narrative?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 4 Peer Response
Instructions:
Please offer any comments about the story that you think are
important or noteworthy. Then thinking of your own story, or personal
narrative, consider the following:
What would you like to share with your peers?
What kind of feedback from them would be helpful for you in
crafting your own story?
Use this opportunity to offer ideas for your own story and
to give feedback to your peers.
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 8 Discussion
Please submit a 150 word short answer essay, based on the
course learning objectives listed below, explaining the most important concepts
you learned from this course and how you think you might apply these concepts
in your future career?
Course Objectives
Identify harmful stereotypes used to marginalize groups of
people.
Examine the impact of inequality among groups of people.
Analyse historical and contemporary cultural texts related
to “othering.”
Unit 1 Discussion
Course Introduction and Knowledge Exploration
As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and
your peers, please post the following:
Your name and a description of your current job. (If not
employed, what are your expectations when you complete your program?)
What degree are you pursuing?
A photo of yourself (self-portrait, or family, action photo)
Instructions:
Please watch the “Like A Girl” video. In your initial post,
please identify the different stereotypes that girls and women are subjected to
in this video and say how they respond to stereotypes about them.
How do they interpret the phrase “like a girl”? Why?
What differences do you see between the young girls and the
young women?
Why do you think this is?
What impact or influence does this phrase have on a young
girl? Why?
What could be done to change the perception that using
stereotypes like this is acceptable?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 20 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable.
Unit 1 Peer Response
Please respond to at least 2 of your peers responses in the
Unit 1 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
When responding to your peers posts consider the “#LikeAGirl
“ video. Please say if you think that you have been subjected to a similar
experience or have seen another person/other people treated in this way.
How did it make you or the other person feel? What did you
or the other person/other people do about it?
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 2 Discussion
Stereotypes, as we have come to understand, are assumptions
that some individuals have about certain groups. Stereotypes can span across
race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference, and other areas. We have
also come to understand that individuals within these different groups face
stereotype threat, or the risk of people feeling they are conforming to the
stereotypes that exist about their social group. In your initial discussion
post for this unit consider the impact that stereotype threat can have on an
individual and respond to the questions below:
What influence might stereotype threat have on an
individual? What might this influence in their life? Why?
What would be the importance of having conversations across
different social groups about how stereotype threat impacts them? Would a
conversation of this nature be beneficial? Why or why not?
What steps could be taken to change the influence that
stereotype threats have within a cultural group?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 2 Peer Response
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 2 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
In your discussion post response’s this week address the
following with your peer’s:
What is the importance of being aware of individuals who
might face stereotype threat in their life?
What would be the best way to address stereotype threat
within a group? As an individual? Why?
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 3 Discussion
For your discussion posts this week, please watch the short
video posted in Unit 3 Discussion, National Congress of American Indians. Then,
please consider the ways that the National Congress of American Indians, which
created this video, demonstrates concern for how American Indians are portrayed
in American sports. Please justify your initial response with sound reasoning.
In your post, you are also invited to consider other uses of different ethnic
backgrounds, cultures, and images in all sports (professional, collegiate, and
otherwise) to see if you think any use of these backgrounds is acceptable–and
why you think what you do.
What does this video seek to communicate, and how does it
try to convey its message? Consider different images and words used in the
video to address this point.
To what extent can or should words and names like “Redskins”
be used in American culture, specifically regarding sports?
What impact does this have on Native American culture? On
Native American people?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 3 Peer Response
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 3 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
When responding to your peers posts consider the perspective
of a Native American:
How would it make you feel if your heritage was represented
in a negative way the misrepresented your cultural history? Is it appropriate
or not?
What steps could be taken to listen to and address the
feelings of the Native Americans shared in the video? What would you do in the
instance someone didn’t agree with you?
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 4 Discussion
Langston Hughes was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance
era, which was a hub of literary, musical, poetical, and philosophical
liveliness in Harlem, New York, from the 1920s through the 1930s. A poet,
essayist, and intellectual, Hughes is known for his poems that articulate
challenges that African Americans and others have faced in the United States.
For your discussion post this week, please view the two
videos sharing short poems by Hughes in Unit 4. The poems are “Let American Be
America Again” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”. You are welcome to analyze the elements you
chose in many different ways here, so long as they reflect sincere engagement
with these poems. (For example, you may use personal reflections and/or
reflections about people you know, or you may offer other kinds of comments
about the concerns and hopes of Hughes in his poems.)
After reflecting on their imagery and messages incorporate
these concepts into your post:
Identify at least two images, metaphors, similes, or other
literary elements from the poems and say how you understand them in the context
of what you see as Hughes’s message(s) in these poems.
Consider, for example, what it means for a dream to dry up
“like a raisin in the sun” (“Harlem”), what it means for a soul to have “grown
deep like the rivers,” in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”), or “I am the worker
sold to the machine,” in “Let America Be America Again”).
Please note: These examples are only examples; you can use
any lines from any of the poems that you want.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 4 Peer Response
When responding to your peers posts consider the perspective
of a Native American:
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 3 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
In your response, consider the literary elements that your
student peers have identified from Hughes poems. Then, please say what you make
of these literary elements in light of Hughes’ messages in his poetry. Consider
the following:
Do you find them relevant to today’s world?
Challenging to your beliefs?
Connecting to those beliefs?
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 5 Discussion
For this discussion post you need to watch “Manifest:Justice
– Art for Social Change” in the unit 5 content. This video highlights a 10 day
“pop-up” art and cultural exhibit that took place in Los Angeles. As stated by
the organizers (Amnesty International USA, 2015):
“MANIFEST:JUSTICE is
a creative community exhibition that elevates and illuminates the ongoing
conversation about race, mass incarceration, police accountability, racial
profiling, healthy communities and gun violence. The themes of MANIFEST:JUSTICE
are justice, human rights, power and dignity for all”.
So you can see the purpose of the event was to bring light
to perceived injustices and promote social justice for those affected by them.
Art and cultural exhibits served as the medium for which the message was to be
told.
Instructions:
With the understanding of the purpose of the event please
respond to the following questions. As you respond, please consider the
perspective of the artists, exhibits, and viewpoints shared in the video in relation
to social justice.
Why might artists create art for and in public spaces in
order to raise awareness and consciousness about different social issues? In
your response please use at least one example (from the video, your own
community or a different resource) in order to illustrate your points.
Also, you are welcome to include images or descriptions of
social justice art from your community or that you’ve seen first-hand or have
been interested in from afar.
One point made in the video was that even if you had a
different opinion or disagreed with someone on a certain topic, respect was
still required amongst people who don’t share the same view. Why is this
important in social justice causes? What benefit would this provide for those
seeking social justice?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 5 Peer Response
Instructions:
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 5 discussion board. . As you respond, please consider the perspective of
the artists, exhibits, and viewpoints shared in the video in relation to social
justice. Also use these questions to guide you in your responses to a peers
post:
How does art make an impact on social justice?
Can art truly be effective at spreading the message of
social justice?
Include at least one open ended question for additional
student responses.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 6 Discussion
In content in this unit you have explored and discovered
many aspects of diversity in the workplace. The importance of companies having
an understanding of diversity, and its impact in all facets of the culture of
that company, are key factors to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace
environment. With that in mind please address the following prompts in you discussion
prompt this week.
What are the challenges when an organization practices
valuing diversity and inclusion? How can the challenges be overcome?
Is it the responsibility of the employer to ensure a work
environment which is bias-free and inclusive for all employees? Why or Why not?
Does any responsibility fall onto the employee’s themselves?
How can strategies be developed to increase diversity and
inclusion within the workplace? How can they be achieved?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 6 Peer Response
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s responses in the
Unit 3 discussion board. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas
with citations and references in APA format.
As you respond to a peer’s post consider the following:
What role does diversity play in promoting a safe work
environment?
What role do the employee’s have in creating an diverse and
inclusive environment?
Write at least one open ended question, in reference to your
peer’s post, that can continue the conversation.
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 7 Discussion
You have already watched the video Man and Beast by Alan
Rabinowitz in a previous topic. With the story of this video in mind think
about the questions below. For the discussion board this week please address
the following in your post:
What works well in this story? Is the tone, delivery, and
mood effective in telling the story?
Which parts stand out to you the most, and why?
Please offer any comments about the story that you think are
important or noteworthy
What elements from this story could be used in creating and
writing your own personal narrative?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.
This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and
response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response
meets criteria (Read me First Section of the Course).
Cite any resources/references in APA formatting that were
used in the discussion-if applicable
Unit 4 Peer Response
Instructions:
Please offer any comments about the story that you think are
important or noteworthy. Then thinking of your own story, or personal
narrative, consider the following:
What would you like to share with your peers?
What kind of feedback from them would be helpful for you in
crafting your own story?
Use this opportunity to offer ideas for your own story and
to give feedback to your peers.
HU140 Cultural Diversity
Unit 8 Discussion
Please submit a 150 word short answer essay, based on the
course learning objectives listed below, explaining the most important concepts
you learned from this course and how you think you might apply these concepts
in your future career?
Course Objectives
Identify harmful stereotypes used to marginalize groups of
people.
Examine the impact of inequality among groups of people.
Analyse historical and contemporary cultural texts related
to “othering.”
