Managing Diversity in Organizations Microcredential

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Faculty Coordinator: Del Brown (brown@geneseo.edu)

This microcredential offers students an opportunity to learn about issues and thinking around diversity in organizations, society and on an individual level. Students will gain an understanding of how diversity issues impact a wide spectrum of our lives. Once they gain knowledge about diversity issues, students will apply and reflect upon them with respect to experiential learning activities they have undertaken.

Integrative Curricular Microcredential in Managing Diversity in Organizations

9-12 credits of academic coursework

1. Required

MGMT 100 - Introduction to Business and Economics in Society
MGMT 375 - Diversity in Organizations
Completion of SOB Professional Development DEI Module

2. One of the following:

3. High Impact, applied learning or integrative experience with self-reflective component. Needs prior approval from micro-credential coordinator and activity coordinator:

One of the following:

Internship- in related area
Leadership in a student club/organization
Directed Study- in related area
Participation in student competition in a business field (e.g. Fed Challenge, FDIC., Marketing Madness, SHRM Case competition, CFA Challenge)
Other high impact, applied learning or integrative activity if approved by the Dean, Associate Dean or Director of Student Services

4. Self-reflective statement

Self-Reflective paper on the experience (600-1000 words) describing how concepts on diversity you learned in class or in the PD module helped clarify your activities and/or caused you to think differently about situations. Did the concepts you learned apply to situations you encountered or turn out not to be fully helpful? What additional training or learning around diversity would be useful to you in the future?