Using the Online Course Design Tool to Plan Your Course



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Planning Each Module

Now that you have established what the modules are, using backward design, start with your learning outcomes and determine the learning path. Access the modal buttons below for a description of each area.

Module 1: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

Learning Outcome # Module Learning Outcome
1. Differentiate race, ethnicity, and culture.
2. Assess race, ethnicity, and culture as social constructions that vary from society to society.
3. Determine how these social constructions of race, ethnicity, and culture create social hierarchies and reinforce inequality within a society.
4. Assess how notions of race, ethnicity, and culture affect individual and collective lived experiences.

Module Learning Outcomes

  1. Differentiate race, ethnicity, and culture.
  2. Assess race, ethnicity, and culture as social constructions that vary from society to society.
  3. Determine how these social constructions of race, ethnicity, and culture create social hierarchies and reinforce inequality within a society.
  4. Assess how notions of race, ethnicity, and culture affect individual and collective lived experiences.
Topic Activate Prior Knowledge Acquire New Knowledge Apply Knowledge Assess Learning Relevant Module Learning Outcomes Resources (readings, videos)
What Is Race? Reflection Questions The Myth of Race, Debunked in 3 Minutes Reflect and Journal Entry Journal Entry 1 YouTube: The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes
Ethnicity and Culture Four Corners Reflecting

What is Ethnicity?

What is Culture?

2016 Long Form Census

Reflect and Journal Entry Journal Entry 2 Statistics Canada: 2016 Census of Population questions, long form (National Household Survey)
The Difference Between Us: “Race--The Power Of Illusion” Before Viewing Guide Examine how recent scientific discoveries in DNA have changed the concept of biological race. Reflective response – before and after viewing the guide Discussion Question 3, 4 California Newsreel: Race - The Power of Illusion