Journal Question, Spring 2005

Class Date Question

1)      Monday, January 10, 2005

 What ethnic group/religion/characteristic do you believe you have the most biases against?  Where do you think that bias comes from?
2)     Monday January 24, 2005 What aspects of your culture are most important to you?
3) Monday, January 31, 2005 Through class activities, what personal stereotypes have become more apparent?
4) Monday, February 7, 2005 In your opinion, of the labels used today, which would be the worst to embody?  Which would be the best?
5) Monday, February 14, 2005 What gave Ann Moody the strength to fight for her rights?  How can we encourage that strength in others?
6) Monday, February 21, 2005 Be aware of when you are participating in racial profiling and write about this.
7) Monday, February 28, 2005 From the case study on pages 67 to 68 in Cultural Diversity, what mistakes would you have made that are similar to the mistakes made by this counselor (before taking this class, of course!)
8) Monday, March 7, 2005 Write about your experiences writing the children's books.
9) Monday, March 14, 2005 What stereotypes were evident in the ethnic Cinderella stories?
10) Monday, March 21, 2005

Which pumpkin do you relate to the most and how would meditation affect your reaction? (Pumpkin reactions: "I'm the biggest one," "So, what, you're crowding me," "I'm the sweetest," "I'm the highest to the sky," "I'm the roundest," "You're mean," "I don't care, you're just a baby," "I'm the closest to the earth.")
11) Monday, April 4, 2005 What surprised you the most about doing these interviews?
12) Monday, April 11, 2005 How was the project to decrease prejudice (around sexual orientation) influenced by your own beliefs, or in other words, if you believe there is only one right form of sexuality, how does that affect your desire to reduce prejudice and discrimination towards people based on sexual orientation?
13) Monday, April 18, 2005

In class today, you did an activity to develop a program for high school students to information about ageism and ableism, which is prejudice and discrimination towards older adults and people with disabilities. I asked the class if you thought this would be effective in educating teenagers, the majority agreed that it would.  However, a number of students wrote in their journals that the programs you developed in the previous class, with the exact same assignment but a different population, to address prejudice and discrimination based on sexual orientation would not be useful since teenagers are not likely to be influenced by this type of educational program.  What does this difference reveal about biases and prejudices and how we rationalize them?
14) Monday, April 25, 2005 When you were developing your questions today, which information surprised you the most (in other word, what had you forgotten that surprised you when you heard it again).  Why do you think it was so easy to forget that information? 
15) Monday, May 2, 2005  
16) Monday, May 9, 2005