Week 1 Application

Summarize your current thinking with regard to:

1. How your life has been influenced by at least five of the following aspects of diversity:

• Race
• Gender
• Age
• Abilities and disabilities
• Language
• Social class, including status and economic level
• Ethnicity and national origin
• Religion and/or spiritual practice
• Original geographic location of your family, where you grew up, and your present location (if different)
• Sexuality, including sexual orientation

2. Your personal definition of culture/cultural framework