The Curriculum Transformation Project
The Curriculum Transformation Project (CTP) was created to help faculty members incorporate issues of diversity into their courses and to support the college’s commitment to diversity. CTP seeks to encourage a curriculum that emphasizes the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, social class, sexuality, age, disability and culture (which includes religion), while addressing the cause and effects of structured inequality. This mission is in line with the explanation of diversity provided by EPC in its form 12A.
The aim of this Web site is to provide faculty with specific teaching tools that they can use to easily incorporate issues of diversity into their existing courses. These tools include:
- A list of films that address issues around diversity. All films are available at Truxal Library.
- A list of classroom exercises and assignments that help students better understand how race, ethnicity, gender, social class, sexuality, age, disability and culture affect social stratification. These exercises use "difference" as a resource in the classroom and allow students to make personal connections to the issues.
- A list of web resources that provide activities for professors to use in the classroom as well as possible homework or project assignments.
For faculty who wish to make more substantial revisions to their courses or who want to design a new course with a diversity designation, CTP also offers a summer program called The Diversity Institute. The Diversity Institute is an intensive three-week program where participants will read and discuss current multidisciplinary scholarship on diversity and workshop their syllabi with other colleagues.

Last Updated: Oct 6 2011 3:50PM