SUMMARY

Minnesota State University, Mankato offers a graduate certificate in “Cultural Diversity.” The program “provides graduate students the opportunity to acquire cross-cultural competency skills and expertise in diversity training to work and lead in a multicultural environment.”

• Courses focus on the “intersections of race, ethnicity, social class, and gender.”

REQUIRED COURSES

Students are required to take either “Helping Across Cultures” or “Cross-Cultural Training and Diversity Management,” along with several other electives.

ETHN 650 – Helping Across Cultures

The course helps students “preparing for and/or working in the helping professions or related careers… address the issues and experiences of culturally different persons.”

ETHN 660 – Cross-Cultural Training and Diversity Management

The course is “designed for those students or professionals who prepare for and/or work in the diverse organizations/institutions, corporations, communities in and outside America” and provides “theories, techniques and skills for cross-cultural training/consultation and diversity management.”

ELECTIVE COURSES

Students are also required to select five additional elective courses, such as:

ETHN 510 – Foundations of Oppression

The course states it will “examine the forces which create and maintain prejudice, discrimination, and racism. Special attention will be given to the work of Paulo Freire.”

ETHN 570 – Women of Color

The course examines the “effects of sexism and racism on women of color and provides an understanding of the significant contributions they have made in their struggles against oppression.”