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Difference, Power, and Oppression Program

This guide supports faculty teaching courses in the DPO category.

Health Sciences

Course Development Resources

Our course development resources are designed to aid faculty as they prepare to teach Difference, Power, and Oppression courses. The academic literature included in this list is only a sample of discipline/field-specific course development resources. Please contact us if you have a resource you'd like to see added to the list.

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Redesigning Syllabi to Create Antiracist Courses

Kilgo, D. B. (2021). Radically Transforming Programs and Syllabi. Teaching Race, 1.

Lo, R. S., & Mayorga, E. (2022). Redesigning Syllabi to Create Antiracist Courses. Teaching Ethics22(2).

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Public Health

Cushman, L. F., Delva, M., Franks, C. L., Jimenez-Bautista, A., Moon-Howard, J., Glover, J., & Begg, M. D. (2015). Cultural competency training for public health students: Integrating self, social, and global awareness into a master of public health curriculum. American Journal of Public Health (1971)105 Suppl 1(S1), S132–S140. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302506(Link is external)

Doutrich, D., & Storey, M. (2004). Education and Practice: Dynamic Partners for Improving Cultural Competence in Public Health. Family & Community Health27(4), 298–307. https://doi.org/10.1097/00003727-200410000-00006(Link is external)

Hadland, S. E., Yehia, B. R., & Makadon, H. J. (2016). CARING FOR LGBTQ YOUTH IN INCLUSIVE AND AFFIRMATIVE ENVIRONMENTS. The Pediatric Clinics of North America63(6), 955–969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2016.07.001(Link is external)

Housman, J., Meaney, K. S., Wilcox, M., & Cavazos, A. (2012). The Impact of Service-Learning on Health Education Students’ Cultural Competence. American Journal of Health Education43(5), 269–278. https://doi.org/10.1080/19325037.2012.10599245(Link is external)

JACQUEZ, F., & GHANTOUS, S. (2013). Community-Partnered Needs Assessment: A Strategy to Teach College Students About Health Disparities: Experiential Teaching Practices in Undergraduate Community Psychology. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community41(2), 68–74.

Jagsi, R. (2018). Sexual Harassment in Medicine—#MeToo. The New England Journal of Medicine378(3), 209–211. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1715962(Link is external)

Krainovich-Miller, B., Yost, J. M., Norman, R. G., Auerhahn, C., Dobal, M., Rosedale, M., Lowry, M., & Moffa, C. (2008). Measuring Cultural Awareness of Nursing Students: A First Step Toward Cultural Competency. Journal of Transcultural Nursing19(3), 250–258. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043659608317451(Link is external)

Lee, A., & Kanji, Z. (2017). Queering the health care system: Experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community. Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene51(2), 80-.

Marshall, L. L., & Ashworth, L. E. (2010). An Elective Course in Women’s Health. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education74(1), 12–12. https://doi.org/10.5688/aj740112(Link is external)

Plaza, C., Mathews, J., & Hanneman, T. (2015). The Role of Pharmacists in LGBTQ Health. Pharmacy Faculty/ Staff Publications.

Starr, S., & Wallace, D. C. (2009). Self-Reported Cultural Competence of Public Health Nurses in a Southeastern U.S. Public Health Department. Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)26(1), 48–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1446.2008.00753.x(Link is external)

Taboada, A. (2011). Privilege, Power, and Public Health Programs: A Student Perspective on Deconstructing Institutional Racism in Community Service Learning. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice17(4), 376–380. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0b013e3182140c63(Link is external)

Vela, M. B., Kim, K. E., Tang, H., & Chin, M. H. (2008). Innovative Health Care Disparities Curriculum for Incoming Medical Students. Journal of General Internal Medicine : JGIM23(7), 1028–1032. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0584-2(Link is external)

Ziegahn, L., & Ton, H. (2011). Adult educators and cultural competence within health care systems: Change at the individual and structural levels. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education2011(130), 55–64. https://doi.org/10.1002/ace.410