About the DPD Program
Mission
The DPD Program works to create a more inclusive curriculum that addresses issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other institutionalized systems of inequality. The Program provides faculty and staff with the training and resources needed to develop or modify comparative diversity courses.
Rationale
The unequal distribution of social, economic, and political power in the United States and in other countries is sustained through a variety of individual beliefs and institutional practices. These beliefs and practices have tended to obscure the origins and operations of social discrimination such that this unequal power distribution is often viewed as the natural order. The DPD requirement engages students in the intellectual examination of the complexity of the structures, systems, and ideologies that sustain discrimination and the unequal distribution of power and resources in society. Such examination will enhance meaningful democratic participation in our diverse university community and our increasingly multicultural society.
Contact DPD
- Kryn Freehling-Burton
Program Assistant for the DPD Program (Interim)
DPD Program
Phone: 541.737.2760
Fax: 541.737.8232
Postal Mail:
Difference, Power, and Discrimination
342 Snell Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-1635