This module invites you to engage in critical reflection on your positionality, emphasizing the interplay between your social identities—such as gender, race, ethnicity, and class—and your experiences in learning environments. By examining how these identities shape your perspectives, knowledge production, and inherent biases, you will gain valuable insights into yourself and your interactions with others.
This course will help you:
- deepen your understanding of yourself including your values, beliefs, worldviews, and assumptions;
- recognize how bias and issues of privilege may affect how you engage with learning or professional development;
- collaborate effectively with classmates, teammates, and colleagues as you acquire a better appreciation of different experiences and worldviews;
- reflect on your own learning experiences and your experiences in relationship to others;
- develop social responsibility and ethical approaches to your field of study, workplace role, and career overall; and
- navigate conversations and practices around social justice in class and practice acts of community.
While helpful for the Queen’s community broadly, we particularly encourage students to engage with this module to better understand how social identities impact your experience.
Note: Ensure you have 45–minutes of uninterrupted time to complete this module. The module will eventually time–out due to inactivity. Refreshing the page after time–out will cause progress in the module to be lost and you will need to complete the module again.
This module has been collaboratively developed by:
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Human Rights and Equity Office