Learning Resources
This page contains the Learning Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of the assigned resources for this week. To view this week's media resources, please use the streaming media player below.
Required Readings
Course Text: Bucher, R. D. (2015). Diversity consciousness: Opening our minds to people, cultures, and opportunities (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Chapter 5, "Communicating in a Diverse World"
Chapter 7, "Teamwork"
Media
Video: Laureate Education (Producer). (n.d.). Microaggressions [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 22 minutes.Dr. Derald Wing Sue describes his work on "microaggressions," unintentional and unconscious ways of communicating often founded in misunderstandings that subtly insult or attack another individual.
Optional Resources
Article: Dessel, A. (2010). Prejudice in schools: Promotion of an inclusive culture and climate. Education and Urban Society, 42(4), 407-429.Retrieved from the Walden Library using SAGE Premier 2010.
With these Learning Resources in mind, please proceed to the Content Review.
For this week's Discussion, use this modified version of Exercise 1, presented on pages 149-150 of your text:
Scenario: You and other employees in your organization correspond regularly by e-mail. You have just received the following e-mail from a colleague:
"Just keeping you informed so you won't embarrass yourself.
Due to the climate of political correctness now found throughout America, those of us in Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky will no longer be 'HILLBILLIES.' Now, you must use the term, 'APPALACHIAN-AMERICANS.' Thank you.
Now, if you don't mind, I've got possum to fry."After reading this, you decide to respond by sending an e-mail message to the sender.
A brief description of what you want your response to accomplish.