• Involves 3 semester hours at the 100-level or above
• Is intercultural and/or cross-cultural, with culture being a worldview that reflects beliefs, customs, values, politics, and experiences as shaped by age, economics, education, gender, geography, language, nationality, occupation, physical ability, race and ethnicity, religious affiliation, and/or sexual orientation among other factors.
• Examines historical and environmental (e.g., social and/or physical) factors that underlie cultural differences
• Examines the potential global, regional, or local factors that underlie cultural differences
• Helps students to identify, critically analyze, and apply scholarship and experience related to cultural diversity.
• Provides academic structure in support of students' positive engagement with peoples of diverse histories and communities.
• Challenges students to evaluate their own personal worldview.
• Has meaningful written and oral components.
• May also count as part of any additional requirement (major, minor, or Gen Ed) of the Baccalaureate degree.

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