COURSE Continued from Page 1 tench the white students, when it can't oven teach the people of color about themselves." Mon toya said Marshall Sauced a. a member of the ACMC and director of multicultural affairs, read a pre pared statement by the Mexic an Chicano, Native American. Asian-Pacific American and Black Student Unions "Our organisations have no desire to mandate (to majority students) studies that address our respec tive cultures and his lories." Snucecla read. "Our her itages are very valuable and it is not in our interests to fore e a reluctant populnc e to learn to apprec iate them Also speaking against the requirement were two student senators "This proposal is not the answer," said Student Senator |esso Bohrer Clam v " The Uni versity needs a c ommitment and a vision Multii ulturalism should he a part of eac I; and every course." he said. Another student senator said the new requirement was shift mg the burden of multii ultural ism to students by adding to an already heavy course load '‘Multiculturalism should be widely spread across the cur riculum,'' said Student Senator (.rant Calof Sandra Morgen, co-chair woman of a committee that tame up with a similar proposal Inst year that was passed and later rescinded, questioned if the new proposal would seek to increase classes in contempo rary race relations in the United States, an admitted weakness of the proposal She was told the new require ment would not provide for this sped fit mechanism Several members of the fat id ly and the administration spoke in strong favor of the new requirement Joe Wade, an AC’MC member and director of academic advis ing and student services, said the proposal find some questions and draw-hacks, but spoke in support of legislation "Wo already have a history of making ourselves look foolish as a result of our dealings with the multicultural t urrit ulum issue last Spring." he said The proposal was passed with two minor amendments One amendment was a slight word change and the other amend rncnt was a paragraph addition that urged for "minimized bureaucracy." I Multicultural classes in three areas I By a nearly unanimous vote, (he University Assembly voted to terminate the current Race, Gender. Non-European course requirement in favor of a new six-credit multicultural require ment. The following Is the unabridged class requirement that will take effect for all incom ing students in the fall of 1995: Students entering the University in Foil 1995 or thereafter will complete a minimum of six credit hours in specifically listed courses, span ning two of the following three areas: "Ameri can Cultures"; "Identity. Pluralism, and Tolerant*”; and "International Cultures.” Students will choose courses from three lists of courses corresponding to these three areas. Individual courses ran be listed in only one of the three categories. Departments and programs will propose courses for these areas to the curriculum com mittee for review according to those guidelines: "American Cultures": The goal is to focus on rote and ethnicity in the United States by con sidering racial and ethnic groups from histori cal and comparative perspectives. F'ive racial/ethnic groups are identified: African American, Chicana/Latino. Native American. Asian-Aroerican and European-American Courses that satisfy the requirement will deal with at least two of these groups in a compara tive manner. They need not dual with discrimi nation or prejudice specific-ally, although many certainly will. "Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance": The goal is to gain scholarly insight into the con struction of collective identities, the emergence of representative voices from varying social and cultural standpoints, and the effects of preju dice, intolerance, and discrimination. The identities at issue may include ethnici ties as in the "American Cultures" unit, as well as classes, genders, religions, sexual orienta tions or other groups whose experiences repre sent a contribution to cultural pluralism. Moreover, courses analyzing the general princi ples underlying tolerance, or the lack of it, will meet the requirement. "International Cultures": The goal is to study world cultures in a critical perspective. This would include courses that either treat an inter national culture in view of the issues raised in the preceding categories, namely race and eth nicity, pluralism and monoculturalism, and/or prejudice and tolerance, or explicitly describe and analyze a world-view — i e , a system of knowledge, fueling, and belief — substantially different from those prevalent in the 20th-cen tury United States The curriculum committee may request sup plementary information it deems necessary for review of the proposed courses and. according to the procedures for curriculum changes, will recommend to the faculty courses for listing in each of these categories. MULTICULTURAL Continued from Page 1 said I've had to deal with tins alt in\ life " Student unions at the tlniversitv seem to have had little to i omplair about in her first four weeks on the joti "Site's great." said )an Harada, ple person'' who relates to students on a more personal basis "Eden is just very angrv and very pas sionate.” Armsbury said "Not just with the ASUO. though. He Mrs problems with a lot of organizations and people We are two verv different people, so our rein tionships with the ASt'() will lx- very dif ferent " Armsbury \ fixes since starting the job has lawn to edm ate student unions about the multu tiltural t urnculum requirement that went before the University Assembly Wednesday The Assembly passed the measure, whit h will rixjuirv students starting school m fail l‘H)5 to take at least two classes from a list vet to be approved Student apathy going into the vote was very high. Armsbury said, especially for a ruling that would affix I every student on campus Armsburv said students made a big mis take last year bv making the administra tion angrv. thus making the University more careful this year in planning the cur riculum reform Armsbury said last weekend that the measure looked good on tin* surface, but she wanted to read further to make sure there went no loopholes Besides this issue, Armsbury lias been working with student unions to advise them of their role in the Multicultural Center currently being built on the ground level of the EMU. As far as experience, Armsbury has a respectable resume. During the 1992-93 school year, she was the ASUO Women’s Diversity Coor dinator and has since been appointed to the Women's Center Restoration Commit tee formed by Bowen last summer. She was appointed by Bowen in August of 199.1. 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