Loyola University Chicago

Faculty Center for Ignatian Pedagogy

Decolonizing Your Syllabus and Making Your Syllabus More Inclusive

Below are resources for designing an inclusive syllabus:

Decolonizing Your Syllabus

Inclusion By Design: Survey Your Syllabus and Course Design

Teaching About Rap by Dr. Lavar Pope

Description: In this video, Dr. Pope, a professor of political science, shares his approach to decolonizing his course syllabus on the history of Rap and racism in the U.S. to represent "non-white voices" and raise students' awareness about racism. Pope shares how he organizes his syllabus, course objectives, course work/readings, and assignments to form an integrative, inclusive, racially plural understanding of the U.S. history. 

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Video funded by an Anti-Racist Pedagogy Micro-grant.