Question 2: How should we live together? Goal 1: Engage diversity and inequality (D)
Courses that meet the “D” requirement should explicitly engage the question How should we live together? with reference to themes of diversity, difference, and social and political equality and inequality. Students should analyze the operation of privilege, merited and unmerited, that reflects the unequal distribution of power in the world, and they should reflect critically on the causes and effects of political and social equality and inequality in the light of racial, ethnic, class, gender, sexuality, disability status, religious and/or other differences. Students taking these courses should develop the habit of giving serious consideration to viewpoints very different from their own, even — or especially — when these may be troubling or unsettling.
Question 2: How should we live together? Goal 2: Examine global interconnections (G)
Courses that meet the “G” requirement should explicitly engage the question How should we live together? with emphasis on how peoples of different cultures, societies, regions, and countries form and transmit the values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that distinguish them. Special attention is given to those cultures whose origins and development lie outside the United States and Western Europe. Courses that meet the “G” criteria offer a global, non-Western perspective and analyze, whether alone or comparatively, the principles and patterns that shape societies and inform the behaviors of the individuals and groups who live in them. Both observable phenomena as well as the underlying assumptions and shared beliefs that influence them are considered.
Question 2: How should we live together? Goal 3: Consider obligations (O)
Courses that meet the “O” requirement should explicitly engage the question How should we live together? with special consideration of our obligations to others. By obligation, we could mean an obligation by individuals, governments and/or other groups to other individuals, governments, other groups, the environment, larger moral principles, and so on. Courses meeting this requirement emphasize the study of ideas and claims—either in the present, the past, or in the abstract—about what individuals or group entities should do in relation to some other(s).