{"id":653,"date":"2019-03-06T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/?p=653"},"modified":"2019-03-06T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:20:22","slug":"diversifying-curriculum-key-perspectives-questions-and-methods-to-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2019\/03\/06\/diversifying-curriculum-key-perspectives-questions-and-methods-to-get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversifying curriculum: key perspectives, questions, and methods to  get started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The call for diversifying academic curriculum has been sounding on both sides of the Atlantic\u00a0and scholars are heeding it. Yet, the reality remains that the majority of faculty members in both the United States and United Kingdom are white and trained in traditional, Western academic canons. For academics\u00a0who want to\u00a0diversify\u00a0the curriculum, determining how to actually do so can be challenging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Michelle Grue will explain the perspectives, questions, and methods that framed a collaborative\u00a0research project on which she and her colleagues\u00a0examined the degree requirements and course offerings in the top-50\u00a0Ph.D. granting sociology departments in the US.\u00a0\u00a0She will also briefly summarise and discuss the findings.\u00a0\u200bWith these frameworks and methods in hand, attendees should be equipped to begin a similar examination of their own program\u2019s course offerings and canon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">When:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday 7 March 2019, 16.00-17.00\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Where:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=UELT_SEM\">UELT Seminar Room, Canterbury<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> and \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=M1-16\">M1-16, Medway Building, Medway Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">(Note: we will be livestreaming the speaker from California into both campus locations)<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Title:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Diversifying curriculum: key perspectives, questions, and methods to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">get started<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Speaker:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michelle Grue,\u00a0Girvetz, Graduate School of Education at the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">University of California, Santa Barbara<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">All staff are warmly welcome to attend. Please confirm your attendance by completing the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/cshe\/CSHE_Seminar_Series_booking_form.html\">online booking form <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">If you have any queries please email <\/span><a>cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call for diversifying academic curriculum has been sounding on both sides of the Atlantic\u00a0and scholars are heeding it. 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