This class meets a graduation requirement in’social and historic studies’.

Students at Indiana University were required to identify their “privileged” or “dominant identities” – such as being male or white – so that they could “address oppression”. The course was part of the “social and historic studies” requirement for graduation.

According to documents obtained from the Washington Free Beacon, students were asked to “write an in-depth reflection on two parts of their identity: One subordinate identity and a dominant identity.” The final assignment, which is worth 26 percent of your final grade for this eight-week class, assumes each student has two identity groups: one that gives them the power to oppress their peers, and another that gives them the power to dominate their peers.

Students were shown a chart that showed examples of “dominant identities”–such as being white—-and “subordinate identities”—-such as being black—-and then separated them according to “manifestations” of social oppression, such a classism racism and heterosexism. The chart effectively shows that straight white Christian males dominate everyone else. According to the chart, straight, white Christian males are superior to everyone else.

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It may be difficult for some students to identify subordinate identities, since dominant traits in America are in fact predominant. One student told The Free Beacon that he had to “make up something” to finish the exercise.

The student complained, “I am being punished for my identity through an assignment. That’s crazy.” “I had no choice but to invent something and I didn’t like doing it.”

The student said, “It is very rich that I am forced to suppress my identity in a class when we’re supposed to be discussing identity and not suppressing it. “I’m forced to suppress myself, because I am assumed to be a privileged, horrible person who didn’t grow without food. “That’s crazy to me.”

Students were asked to reflect on their privileges after identifying their subordinate and dominant group. They also had to list the groups that they held dominance over and explore ways to change their relationship with subordinate groups.

The instructions stated that you would gain an understanding of your identity in the U.S. and the advantages and disadvantages associated with it. Self-awareness, along with experiences of privilege and exploitation, is the foundation for understanding identity complexity and how to address oppression.

This class “Understanding Diversity In A Pluralistic Societ” fulfills the “social and historic studies” requirement at Indiana University. The classes “Ancient and Medieval Art”, “Introduction to Archaeology” and “Ancient and Medieval Art”, are also acceptable.

This class does not meet the requirement of “diversity” in the United States for students in the College of Arts and Sciences. The classes that fulfill this requirement are “Black Women in Diaspora”, “American Ethnic Diversity” and “Sexual Diversity”.

According to the student, Colleen rose, the course instructor did not give any guidance as to how students should do the assignment if, they don’t identify with “subordinate” group. She included an optional note in a submission form that allowed students to express concerns about the task. Rose has “close to 20 years’ experience in leadership with Indiana University” and is also the director of Student Engagement at the Center for Rural Engagement of the university, where she “leads students-based initiatives,” as stated in her online biography.

Rose encouraged her students, however, to avoid writing about aspects of their identity that were “traumatizing”.

The instructions stated that “if it is difficult for you to think about a certain aspect of your own identity, then choose something else.” Sometimes students are traumatized or have other reasons to make thinking about their identity difficult. This reflection should not be retraumatizing, but constructive.

Indiana is among six states to have passed anti-DEI legislation this year. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed a law in March that prevents colleges from demanding diversity statements when hiring or admitting students. The bill also requires a formal complaint procedure for faculty who don’t promote intellectual diversity or free inquiry.

Equal Protection Project, a group that fights discrimination, filed a federal civil right complaint in July against Indiana University. The Equal Protection Project claims the university offered 19 scholarships based on race, which could be in violation of federal laws. William Jacobson told the Bloomington Herald-Times, that the group’s “pervasive” discriminatory scholarship activities reflect “a systematic disregard for not only the U.S. Constitution, but also Indiana University’s own rules.”

Indiana University Rose has not responded to any requests for comment.