Diversity Essay A Diversity Essay is required for all degree-seeking applicants. The diversity essay should be 500 words or less responding to the following statement: Describe your leadership, work experience, service experience, or other significant involvement with racial, ethnic, socio-economic, or educational communities that have traditionally been underrepresented in higher education, and how these experiences would […]
To what extent does privilege (racial, socioeconomic, heteronormative) affect rates of conviction and incarceration? What are some ways that prison is dehumanizing or humiliating to inmates?
Research Paper based on Orange Is the New Black For the research paper, we are taking a theme or topic from a book and developing that into a research-based argument paper. The paper must quote from the book at least twice and must incorporate (quote from and parenthetically cite from) 5-7 secondary sources to help […]
Discuss the different trends in Congress and what you think it means for the representation of citizens in the House and Senate? Does it matter if members of Congress look like most Americans?
Descriptive representation is a way of thinking about representation in which it is thought to be important that representatives have the same racial, gender, ethnic, religious, or educational backgrounds as their constituents. Review how Congress has changed over time with respect to race, gender, veteran status, education, and religion in the Pew Research articles “The […]