Multi-cultural curriculum transformation challenges us to examine our own perspectives, engages us in intellectual struggles, and propels us across disciplinary boundaries as we search for resources to enrich our own knowledge.

-Margie K. Kitano,
Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Research,
San Diego State University

Given the realities of race, class, and gender in an increasingly global society, instructors want to ensure that their courses and course materials promote inclusion. In order to introduce a range of cultural values into the classroom, instructors are becoming more reflective about the values their content and teaching communicate to the student community. Inclusive college courses strive to enhance and enlighten students’ own history and values, while providing an awareness of others.

Through teaching, faculty have the potential to create experiences in the classroom that both contribute to students’ knowledge of their own historical identity as well as foster greater appreciation for the history, values, beliefs, and cultures of other groups in society.

How can you design your curriculum so that all of your students have the opportunity to feel comfortable in your classroom? This website provides resources for faculty to learn more about diversity in the curriculum.