Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement Subcommittee

Subcommittee Charge

The Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement Subcommittee (formerly Multicultural Requirement) is primarily responsible for overseeing the Sociocultural Inquiry baccalaureate degree requirement at Stanislaus State.

The responsibilities of the Subcommittee are as follows: 

1. Establish meeting dates by semester, to be published to the campus community. 
2. Submit agendas and meeting minutes to UEPC.  
3. Review, approve or disapprove requests from departments/programs for courses to be included as courses that fulfill the Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement.  
4. Make decisions for continuance or discontinuance of each department/programʹs Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement course designations on a cycle not to exceed 5 years.  
5. Implement policies and procedures that are submitted to the Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement Subcommittee from the UEPC; make recommendations to the UEPC for changes in Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement policies and procedures. 
6. Provide support for the articulation of courses from the community colleges. 
7. Oversee preparation of the Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement in the catalog copy. 
8. Submit an annual year‐end report to the UEPC, to include a summary of the yearʹs events and recommendations for next steps. 

Read the full resolution: 06/AS/23/UEPC

Revised Course Learning Outcomes

For a course to be designated as fulfilling this requirement, it must be a minimum of 3 units and satisfy at least 2 of the following three Learning Outcomes. By the end of the course students will be able to:

• Discuss historical and/or contemporary experiences of historically disenfranchised or marginalized populations within the US and/or abroad.
• Interpret how power, structures, privilege, oppression, agency, and/or resistance shape histories, lives, places, and/or cultures in a regional, national, and/or global context.
• Examine their own place within intersectional systems and structures of power, privilege, oppression, and/or resistance.

2025-2026 Sociocultural Inquiry Certification

Beginning Fall 2025, all courses previously designated as Multicultural will be required to undergo a certification process if academic programs wish to have these courses count towards the new Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement (SIR). This certification process needs to be initiated by academic programs in order for SIR courses to be included in the 2025-26 Catalog and offered beginning in Fall 2025.

There are two options for certification:

1. Department Batch Approval: This streamlined option is available in Curriculog for courses that require no additional changes or only need to add a couple of learning outcomes. The department will need to provide a pre-formatted spreadsheet and all syllabi for courses seeking certification. The Curriculog form title is: *2024-25 Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement Certification.
2. Individual Course Review: For courses that require more extensive changes, faculty can complete the course modification form and directly select the SIR questions. The Curriculog form title is: *2024-25 Course (Modification).

The deadline for courses seeking certification has been extended to Monday, October 28^th.

Curriculog Form Instructions

Current Multicultural Course Listing

Membership for 2024/25

• Jude Paul Dizon, COEKSW
• Matt Cover, COS
• Ellen Bell, CAHSS
• Nan Zhang, CBA
• Augustine Avwunudiogba, At Large Member
• TBD, ASI Rep.
• Theo Cotten, Ethnic or Gender Studies
• Carolina Alfaro, Director of the Diversity Center, Ex-Officio, Non-voting

2024/25 Meetings

• 09/11/24, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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