University of Nebraska (CorruptED)

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University of Nebraska ethnic studies courses feature content such as antiracism, decolonization, white fragility, and whiteness.

The course ETHN 101: How to be Antiracist is an “examination of issues related to racism and antiracism” and includes topics such as “the history of U.S. racial conflict, whiteness, white fragility, white allyship, white abolitionism, and community action.”

The course ETHN 160: Native Americans in Popular Culture states that it will focus on the “representations of Native Americans in popular culture and what they mean for understanding experiences and North American history more generally.”

The course ETHN 280: Colonization, Decolonization, and Globalization includes a “critical comparative examination of colonization and decolonization and its impact on modern day globalization.”

The course ETHN 330: Multicultural Education gives an “introduction to the historical, sociological, and philosophical foundations of multicultural education,” it “examines the increasing cultural diversity of the United States and introduces multicultural education as a concept,” and “explores awareness and attitudes toward diversity, cultural knowledge, multicultural instructional practices, and curricular resources along with diversity issues impacting PK-12 schooling.”