Rutgers University has a welcoming gift for its incoming freshmen, a class in identifying and decrying microaggressions, Lindsay Marchello writes.
The course consists of a Prezi presentation and some Youtube videos. It concludes by encouraging students to report an act of bias toward anyone because of their “race, religion, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, atypical heredity or cellular blood trait, military service or veteran status.”
It is a long list for new students to retain as they worry about which classes to take or how to pay for $400 textbooks. The Center for Social Justice Education, however, would prefer microaggressions be a student’s top priority. Microaggressions, after all, can be detrimental to a person’s health, according to the Prezi.
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