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Safe Zone: 101 Training Manual, Todd K. Herriott, Casey M. Halcro
Safe Zone: 101 Training Manual, Todd K. Herriott, Casey M. Halcro
Office of Diversity and Equity
Goals of the DUOC Safe Zone Program:
• To increase the overall campus community’s understanding and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues
• To provide a greater sense of safety for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender student community
• To offer information to straight allies in positions where they may be in contact with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (as classmates, roommates, friends, residents, students, staff, faculty, etc.)
• To act as a resource of information regarding homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia and LGBTQ issues on the DUOC campus.
The Arts And Social Capital For The American 21st Century: A College Course, Kathleen Escamilla
The Arts And Social Capital For The American 21st Century: A College Course, Kathleen Escamilla
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
This course is designed to introduce college students to the current significance of the Arts in American civil society. We will begin by examining the concepts of civil society and social capital and their correlations to social well-being. The robustness of voluntary associations is a distinguishing characteristic of American civil society. It is a basis for how we carry out democracy and maintain our common resources. Social capital is the embedded value of our social connections with others. Our mutual trust and reciprocity contributes to the health, wealth, tolerance, and efficient governance of society. We will explore the unique ability …