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AEJMC's accrediting standards on diversity and inclusiveness.
Points of entry: A handout from consultant Dr. Lillian Dunlap on how to include diversity in your syllabus.
Saftey Goggles Required: A Quill Magazine article on teaching diversity.
Exercises
Bias survey: Good for any sort of class or recitation. Allows instructors and students to acknowledge and discuss their voluntary or involuntary prejudices and how to address them.
Ethics on deadline: For print or broadcast news reporting, editing or ethics classes. Questions and methods to consider ethical dilemmas.
History's Truths and Birthday Papers: Two excercises from University of Oregon's Dr. Kathy Campbell aimed at broadcast or print classes. In the first, students to interview an elder about coverage of a historic event, then compare that interview to actual news reports from the time. In the second, students analyze civil rights coverage during their birth month.
Intercultural communication: A Poynter article by Dr. Ruth Seymour, along with a lesson plan and ICC wallet card. Good for students in any type of class to remind them that different cultures have different habits and interactions. Not everyone considers shaking hands polite.
Map: An exercise aimed at getting students to notice things outside their world. Good for any sort of class.
Listening posts: An exercise that can be used in any class to get students to observe places they might not ordinarily go.
Potholes in prose: A good exercise for print or broadcast reporting or editing classes. Wtih examples provided by Dr. Ruth Seymour from a class assignment about an interview with an American Indian.
The Sculpture: An exercise for any seminar class on objectivity and perception.
Identity Wheel: An exercise for any class on how we identify ourselves.
Power of the word: An exercise for reporting and editing class on identifying subtle bias in news stories. With more stories here.
Poynter seminar participant's ideas. Exercises suggested by students at Poynter's May 2006 seminar, including ideas for a one-credit class centered on a book, co-constructed blogs, covering the undercovered and more.