This 8 to 10-page paper is on your own background, your personal exploration of your own culture – your attitudes, values, and beliefs. This will be a major assessment of your commitment to developing multicultural awareness. Please feel free to use pictures as well!
The paper should have the following sections:
- Demographic Categories. Use the ADDRESSING model to identify your background and identity. Comment on which of those categories you would use when describing yourself, i.e., what factors play a role in your identity. What additional events or experiences shaped your identity or life experiences, i.e.,
- Attitudes, Values, & Beliefs. What are your major attitudes, values, and beliefs that drive your life goals, daily living, and worldview? Where did you learn these, i.e. from what life events or culture teachers?
- Biases. What negative biases do you know that you have about other groups of people? What events, experiences, or people impacted these biases?
- Multicultural Goals. End the paper with what you hope to develop, experience or learn from this course. This course is called Social and Cultural Diversity
