Equity-Minded Online Course Design Checklist

In each module we offered reflection questions to keep at the forefront as you design and deliver your courses. Here is a complete list of those questions:

• Are there specific ways my course content could include culturally relevant material, such as images, quotes, and featured scholars/works?
• Does my course content serve as a mirror for each and every one of my students (a reflection of their life) or a window (a view into a life that does not look like theirs)? 
• What “intrusive” communication practices can I include during major benchmarks in the semester, starting with week zero? 
• How can I assess whether I am effectively relating to and reaching all of my students, starting in week one and throughout the course?
• How can I demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to the external pressures marginalized students face while taking my course, starting in week one and throughout the course?
• Can I identify course design and delivery practices that are grounded in my own positionality, and make them more equitable?

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About the Designers

Recipients of the Dr. John W. Rice ​Diversity & Equity Award, 2019

 Dr. Oropeza and Dr. Hutchinson  have been relentless voices for a more equitable and inclusive campus since being hired at the same time at SBCC. They are founding members of the grassroots group Leaders for Equity, Antiracism  & Reparations Now (LEARN) , and continue to fight for a more equitable, just, and inclusive campus through their pedagogy, activism, and advocacy.

Dr. Clara Oropeza (she/her) is a full-time professor of English Literature and Composition at SBCC where she teaches Literature and Composition. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Mythology and Literature and an M.A. in English Literature with an emphasis in Latin American Literature. Dr. Oropeza served as the director of SBCC’s Multi-Literacy English Transfer Program (MET) for eight years, researching patterns of inequality to better understand the social and historical context of systemic exclusionary practices in Higher Ed. to more effectively address the needs of underserved populations.  Dr. Oropeza’s research  combines literary studies, comparative mythology, feminist and cultural theory.  Learn more at https://www.claraoropeza.com

Dr. Carrie Hutchinson (she/her) is a full-time professor of Communication at SBCC where she teaches Interpersonal Communication and Leadership for a Global Society. She holds an M.A.  in Interpersonal Communication with a focus on the science of attitude and behavioral change and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Psychology and a focus on Intergroup Perception.  She is  the founder of the Santa Barbara chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national organization that seeks to motivate people with racial privilege to join the multiracial movement for collective liberation with effectiveness and accountability. Learn more at www.carriehutchinson.com

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