Below are a list of colleges and universities that are carrying out similar initiatives, with success. This idea, most resembles Georgetown University's Engelhard Project. Read below to see what various schools are doing about these issues.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Engelhard Project for Connecting Life & Learning - Georgetown University
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Social Inequalities and Diversities Undergraduate Curriculum
"Over the past few years, students have worked with faculty and administrators to create a distribution requirement that would allow students to learn about different perspectives, cultures, ethnicities, and opinions. Last spring, the University Diversity Council was created and initiated the Academics and Education working group. This group has dedicated their time to the planning and development of an academic proposal".
http://www.northwestern.edu/about/diversity/index.html
USC UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
"The diversity requirement is designed to provide undergraduate students with the background knowledge and analytical skills necessary to understand and respect differences between groups of people. Students should understand the potential resources and conflicts arising from human differences on the contemporary American and international scene. Students will increasingly need to grapple with issues arising from different dimensions of human diversity such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and social class".
http://dornsife.usc.edu/diversity-requirement/
CORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES
"These courses offer means to achieving several of the College's stated goals for undergraduate education; specifically, this addresses the expectation that in the course of earning a degree, students will enhance their abilities to communicate with people of different cultural perspectives; to listen carefully and respectfully to views of others, especially views with which they disagree; and to employ ethical reasoning tin judging ideas, actions, and their implications. These courses explore the challenges of building a diverse society, and/or examine the various processes that marginalize people and produce unequal power relations in terms of race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, gender, age, or economic status".
http://cals.cornell.edu/academics/registrar/degree-requirements/human-diversity/
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Engelhard Project for Connecting Life & Learning - Georgetown University
- Bringing Wellness into the Classroom The Engelhard Project represents an innovative experiment in integrating student wellness issues into academic contexts.
Using a curriculum infusion approach, Engelhard faculty from a variety of disciplines link course content with wellness topics through readings, discussions led by campus health professionals, and reflective writing.
http://gli.georgetown.edu/engelhard/
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Social Inequalities and Diversities Undergraduate Curriculum
"Over the past few years, students have worked with faculty and administrators to create a distribution requirement that would allow students to learn about different perspectives, cultures, ethnicities, and opinions. Last spring, the University Diversity Council was created and initiated the Academics and Education working group. This group has dedicated their time to the planning and development of an academic proposal".
http://www.northwestern.edu/about/diversity/index.html
USC UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
"The diversity requirement is designed to provide undergraduate students with the background knowledge and analytical skills necessary to understand and respect differences between groups of people. Students should understand the potential resources and conflicts arising from human differences on the contemporary American and international scene. Students will increasingly need to grapple with issues arising from different dimensions of human diversity such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and social class".
http://dornsife.usc.edu/diversity-requirement/
CORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES
"These courses offer means to achieving several of the College's stated goals for undergraduate education; specifically, this addresses the expectation that in the course of earning a degree, students will enhance their abilities to communicate with people of different cultural perspectives; to listen carefully and respectfully to views of others, especially views with which they disagree; and to employ ethical reasoning tin judging ideas, actions, and their implications. These courses explore the challenges of building a diverse society, and/or examine the various processes that marginalize people and produce unequal power relations in terms of race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, gender, age, or economic status".
http://cals.cornell.edu/academics/registrar/degree-requirements/human-diversity/