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The purpose of the DEISJ Curriculum Development Certificate Program is to help faculty and others involved in teaching SUNY General Education learn the knowledge and skills necessary to create course content that meets the SUNY DEISJ General Education student learning outcomes. A group of SUNY DEISJ faculty fellows and SUNY staff developed the program framework.
Course 1: Foundational Concepts in DEISJ
January 27 – March 9, 2026
The purpose of this course is for participants to gain the tools necessary to design their courses to meet the SUNY General Education Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ) student learning outcomes. The course utilizes a social justice education framework, an approach that emphasizes a critical understanding of how inequality operates and how actors can create positive social change towards a more equitable and inclusive society. The course explores topics such as implicit biases, intersectionality, and institutional inequality.
Course 2: Select Topics in DEISJ
March 10 – April 20, 2026
This course offers a “deeper dive” into several areas of DEISJ content. Because there is so much to cover and participants have diverse interests and preexisting knowledge bases, this course offers three “tracks” all leading to the same final projects—1. a class exercise or assignment and 2. an annotated bibliography for a course you might like to teach in your area of study. Our tracks follow the DEISJ general education outcomes to some extent focusing on 1) Gender, Race, Class and their Intersections; 2) Equity as a concept directly tied to systems of Power that create and recreate Oppression and Privilege; and 3) Diverse models of Social Justice Formations in theory and action.
Course 3: Building Your DEISJ Curriculum
April 21 – June 1, 2026
Participants will, through reflective exercises and guided conversation, revamp an existing course or create a new one to fulfill DEISJ SLOs. In this course, participants will use the broader DEISJ context they have examined in the previous two courses to re-see their own disciplinary content.
More info & to Register: https://cpd.suny.edu/deisjcert/
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