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Difference, Power, and Oppression Program

This guide supports faculty teaching courses in the DPO category.

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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Liberal Arts

Barraclough, L., & McMahon, M. R. (2013). U.S.-Mexico Border Studies Online Collaboration: Transformative Learning Across Power and Privilege. Equity & Excellence in Education, 46(2), 236–251. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2013.779146

Daly, W. T. (1992). The Academy, the Economy, and the Liberal Arts. Academe, 78(4), 10–12. https://doi.org/10.2307/40250350 

Dodge, A. M., & Crutcher, P. A. (2015). Inclusive Classrooms for LGBTQ Students: USING LINKED TEXT SETS TO CHALLENGE THE HEGEMONIC “SINGLE STORY.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 59(1), 95–105. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.433

Gould, R. (2012). Philology, Education, Democracy. The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 46(4), 57–69. https://doi.org/10.5406/jaesteduc.46.4.0057 

Harootunian, H. (2012). “Memories of Underdevelopment” after Area Studies. Positions : East Asia Cultures Critique, 20(1), 7–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1471363

Levine, D. N. (2006). Powers of the mind the reinvention of liberal learning in America. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226475783 

RICHARDSON, T. (2011). Navigating the Problem of Inclusion as Enclosure in Native Culture-Based Education: Theorizing Shadow Curriculum. Curriculum Inquiry, 41(3), 332–349. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-873X.2011.00552.x

Schnell, J., & Dates, J. (1996). Promoting a more inclusive communication curriculum using inter-university faculty collaboration as a model. The Communication Review (Yverdon, Switzerland), 1(3), 403–409. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714429609388271 

Seifert, T. A., Goodman, K. M., Lindsay, N., Jorgensen, J. D., Wolniak, G. C., Pascarella, E. T., & Blaich, C. (2008). The Effects of Liberal Arts Experiences on Liberal Arts Outcomes. Research in Higher Education, 49(2), 107–125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-007-9070-7

Woyshner, C. (2002). Political History as Women’s History: Toward a More Inclusive Curriculum. Theory and Research in Social Education, 30(3), 354–380. https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2002.10473201

Social Sciences

Bair, S. (2015). Inclusive Historical Narratives: Lessons from Mary Ritter Beard and Carter G. Woodson. Social Studies Research & Practice10(2), 124–134. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-02-2015-B0011

Boysen, G. A. (2011). Diversity Topics Covered in Teaching of Psychology Courses. Teaching of Psychology38(2), 89–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628311401593

Case, K. A., Stewart, B., & Tittsworth, J. (2009). Transgender across the Curriculum: A Psychology for Inclusion. Teaching of Psychology36(2), 117–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/00986280902739446

Cochran, B. N., & Robohm, J. S. (2015). Integrating LGBT Competencies into the Multicultural Curriculum of Graduate Psychology Training Programs: Expounding and Expanding Upon Hope and Chappell’s Choice Points: Commentary on “Extending Training in Multicultural Competencies to Include Individuals Identifying as Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual: Key Choice Points for Clinical Psychology Training Programs.” Clinical Psychology (New York, N.Y.)22(2), 119–126. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpsp.12095

Dennick-Brecht, M. K. (1993). Developing a More Inclusive Sociology Curriculum: Racial and Ethnic Group Coverage in Thirty Introductory Textbooks. Teaching Sociology21(2), 166–171. https://doi.org/10.2307/1318638

Harris, J. B., Hill, B., & Kiernan, M. (2012). A Model for Increasing Indigenous Participation in Psychology Degrees. Australian Psychologist47(3), 128–136. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9544.2012.00066.x

Hedley, M., & Markowitz, L. (2001). Avoiding Moral Dichotomies: Teaching Controversial Topics to Resistant Students. Teaching Sociology29(2), 195–208. https://doi.org/10.2307/1318717

Littleford, L. N. (2013). Diversity in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Perspectives Held by Undergraduate Students at a Predominantly European American University. Teaching of Psychology40(2), 111–117. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628312475030

Moradi, B., & Yoder, J. D. (2001). Demonstrating Social Constructionism in Psychology Courses: The “Who Am I?” Exercise. Teaching of Psychology28(3), 201–203. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15328023TOP2803_07

Peterson, S. B., & Kroner, T. (1992). GENDER BIASES IN TEXTBOOKS FOR INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. Psychology of Women Quarterly16(1), 17–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1992.tb00237.x

Pettijohn, T. F., & Walzer, A. S. (2008). Reducing Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in College Students by Completing a Psychology of Prejudice Course. College Student Journal42(2), 459-.

Rios, D., Stewart, A. J., & Winter, D. G. (2010). “Thinking She Could be the Next President”: Why Identifying with the Curriculum Matters. Psychology of Women Quarterly34(3), 328–338. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2010.01578.x