{"id":10076,"date":"2025-06-18T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/?page_id=10076"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:01:40","slug":"the-individual-in-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/hub-courses\/the-individual-in-community\/","title":{"rendered":"The Individual in Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Individual in Community falls under the Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship Capacity.<\/em><\/p>\n

The ability to accept individual responsibility toward multiple communities, and to work as engaged members of diverse communities, is essential to all aspects of life in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Over a lifetime, people move in and out of multiple communities that range from the family, to neighborhoods and cities, to professional and other organizations (which might be international), to larger units such as the nation. They may be defined by, among other things, race, class, ethnicity, nationality, gender, personal relationships, time, location, interests, and beliefs.<\/p>\n

Courses in this area will have the first learning outcome and will also have the second or third learning outcomes.<\/p>\n

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  1. Students will reflect critically on their engagement and relations with different communities\u2014campuswide, citywide, national and\/or international\u2014and will recognize and analyze the issues relevant to those communities (or to different individuals in those communities).<\/li>\n
  2. Students will consider at least one of the dimensions of experience that inform their own worldviews and beliefs as well as those of other individuals and societies. Such considerations may include (but are not limited to) race, class, gender expression, sexuality, disability, neurodiversity, age, language, religion, politics, or cultural history.<\/li>\n
  3. Students will demonstrate depth of understanding of the historical and systemic bases of racial bias and inequities in the world today, including in the United States. This may include awareness of systems and\/or cultural structures of racial bias and inequity (such as in education, employment, health, disability, housing, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and the law), the societal consequences of such inequities, and antiracist or other activism aimed at creating a more just and equitable society.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Search for currently scheduled courses with combinations of other Hub requirements in MyBU Student<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    HUB Specialty Courses<\/h2>