Offered by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, the BUILD Diversity Certificate program reflects DePaul University’s commitment to create a learning culture that values diversity and inclusion. The certification program helps participants develop cultural competencies, offers the tools necessary for linking diversity to organizational and work performance and connects the university’s Vincentian mission of dignity and respect for all individuals to our core operating principles. After completion of this program, participants will have the skill-set necessary to apply diversity competencies in action. This program may be completed within 18 months, and offers both required and elective courses.
LEVEL 1:
The Level 1 Diversity Certificate is awarded upon the completion of five required courses, two elective courses, and a 7-10 page reflection paper. Details about the paper are provided in the Diversity in Action workshop.
Required Courses
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Principles of Diversity
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Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity
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Legal Foundation of Diversity
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Best Practices in Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Workforce
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Diversity in Action
LEVEL 2:
The Level 2 Diversity Certificate is awarded upon the completion of five required courses and four elective courses. Participants are required to complete a BUILD capstone project of their choice with the guidance
of an advisor, and complete a three page reflection paper. Details about the paper are provided in the BUILD Capstone course.
Required Courses
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Principles of Diversity
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Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity
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Legal Foundation of Diversity
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Best Practices in Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Workforce
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BUILD Capstone
ELECTIVE COURSES
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Four Generations in the Workplace
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From the Classroom to the Workplace: Accommodating Students/Employees with Disabilities
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Micro-Aggressions and Their Impact in the Workplace
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Religious Diversity in the Workplace
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Safe Zone Allies Training
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Culture/Politics of Mixed Race
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Sexual Harassment Prevention
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Women and Work: Shriver Report
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Diversity, Technology and the Workplace
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Veterans at DePaul University
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Gender Identity and Expression
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Undocumented Students at DePaul
Level 1 and Level 2 Required Course Descriptions
Principles of Diversity (EPO001)
Format: Online
Length: 1 hour
This online module presents an overview of the BUILD program, as well as an introduction to the principles of diversity. The BUILD certificate helps individuals engage and build their diversity competencies, while understanding the theory and practice of diversity in the workplace. An assessment accompanies this online module.
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequality (CROO1A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
Learners will work to develop an individual and collective understanding of a system of inequity and develop capacities to analyze racial injustice.
Legal Foundations of Diversity (LF001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
Become familiar with relevant federal, state, and local employment laws, an employee's obligations and rights under the various employment laws, and DePaul's Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policy.
Best Practices in Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Workforce (RROO1A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
Learn to conduct a proactive search using inclusive interviewing techniques, the importance of understanding cultural differences in the selection process and how to mentor teams to tap into creativity and problem solving.
BUILD Capstone (CA001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2.5 hours
The capstone project offers participants the opportunity to explore a problem or issue of personal or professional interest and addresses the problem or issue through focused study and applied research. The facilitator will guide the participants in identifying their issue or problem and help develop a clear and detailed project proposal, which will result in receiving the BUILD certificate.
Level 2 Elective Course Descriptions
Four Generations in the Workplace (FG001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
In this interactive session, participants review characteristics that contribute to generational stereotypes, examine potential "hot button" sources of conflicts between generations and explore ways of improving collaboration.
From the Classroom to the Workplace: Accomodating Students with Disabilities (DE001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 1.5 hours
This seminar presents key information about students with disabilities and how classroom accomodations and strategies are transferable to the workplace for employee and employer success.
Microaggressions and Their Impact in the Workplace (MI001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
Explore familiar daily verbal or behavioral inequities, whether intentional or unintentional, that display hostile, derogatory, or negative communication slights and insults towards individuals within a diverse workplace.
Religious Diversity in the Workplace (RD001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2.5 hours
Through lecture and exercises, participants reflect on their own identities and gain tools and strategies for respectful engagement of religious/spiritual diversity.
Safe Zone Allies Training (SZ001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 3 hours
Learn basic terminology, LGBTQ history, coming out and ally development to support the SafeZone program and the LGBTQ community at DePaul.
Culture/Politics of Mixed Race (MR001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2.5 hours
This course will explore the history of the mixed race movement in the U.S. along with changes in social attitudes and policies. Participants will examine the representation shift in popular culture seen in fiction, film, advertising and social media as it impacts political discourses.
Sexual Harrassment Prevention (HP001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
Through lecture and case studies, participants will learn what sexual harassment is, the danger signs and how to respond to harassment issues and gender discrimination.
Women and Work: Shiver Report (WW001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
This course will look at examples from “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink,” which focuses on what working women need now to be successful in today’s economy. Learners will discuss where women are powerful, but also powerless.
Diversity, Technology, and the Workplace (DT001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
Using case studies, role-playing, and interactive exercises, participants will learn the importance of understanding cultural diversity and the effects of technology in the 21st century workplace.
Veterans and DePaul University (VE001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
This course will describe the current support structure for student veterans at DePaul and share some insights about the student veteran experience. The goal is to help participants better understand the resources available to students who are returning from military service and matriculating at DePaul.
Gender Identity and Expression (GI001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2.5 hours
This interactive workshop will delve into the topic of gender identity and expression, including basic terminology, several models of transgender identity development, differences between sexuality and gender identity, and dismantling transphobia.
Undocumented Students at DePaul (US001A)
Format: Classroom
Length: 2 hours
This training session incorporates case studies that help increase knowledge of undocumented students, state and federal law, DePaul University’s position, Deferred Action for Undocumented Students (DACA) and available resources. Appropriate ways to provide assistance are discussed.
Sponsor:
Office of Instituational Diversity and Equity
14 East Jackson Boulevard, Suite 800
(312) 362-6872
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