Diversity issues are a focus in all of our language and culture courses, for example, GER 221, 222, 223, 251, 252, 340, 351, 354 and SCAN 251, 317, 325, 341, SCAN 315, 316, 341, 353, 354.
Every year we run appr. 3 to 4 FIGS. Our FIG instructors contribute to the UO efforts to retain at-risk students.
We have also stared to participate in offering "Reacting to the Past" classes.
In addition to our departmental offerings, since 2010 Stern has regularly taught a course, Humanities 300, “The Closest of Strangers.” This class covers European views on Africa, African views on Europe, and ends with a look at race relations in the United States. This winter term, Stern will teach a HUM seminar at the 400 level on the subject of “Decolonial Poetics.” The material will be largely Caribbean and African.
We have continued offering Online summer courses to a larger diverse audience and have re-designed GER 101 as a hybrid course in Fall 2017.
We actively engage in promoting study abroad programs.