Information For
Prospective Students
Diversity & Community Studies Office
Gerontology - Senior Scholar and Head Graduate Assistant, Urmila Tokekar
WKU Gerontology Alzheimer's Memory Walk
ICSR - Study Abroad Africa
ICSR Student Assistant, Bianca Brown
Gender & Women's Studies Student Assistant, Tracy Jo Ingram with Dr. Isabel Mukonyora, Philosophy & Religion
African American Studies - The King Center, Atlanta GA
African American Studies - National Underground Railroad Museum in Maysville, Kentucky
Steve Pemberton with Gender & Women's Studies Coalition Reading Group
ICSR Staff
Diversity & Community Studies
The Department of Diversity and Community Studies houses four programs, which offer the following minors or undergraduate certificates: African American Studies (minor); Gender and Women's Studies (minor); Gerontology (minor); Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (certificate).
These interdisciplinary programs share certain important affinities:
- Conceptual frameworks for understanding diverse communities, their histories and contemporary expressions, the structural challenges they face, and the contributions they offer to the fabric of American society;
- A commitment to working for social justice and equality of treatment across differences;
- A record of working collaboratively within communities—in service projects as well as participatory research;
- An understanding that social systems are interconnected in perpetuating institutional oppression and dominate group privilege.
- A conviction that interdisciplinary analysis and community experience are essential to addressing real world problems.
Individually, the programs focus on the particular issues and sectors of society that define their curriculum, programming, and outreach.
