Unconscious Bias Course Outline

Unconscious Bias

Session One: Course Overview

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

Pre-Assignment

Pre-Course Assessment

Session Two: Defining Unconscious Bias

What is Unconscious Bias?

Self-Examination of Unconscious Bias

The Science of BIAS

Examining Your Schema

Unconscious Bias and Our World

Session Three: Addressing Unconscious Bias

Owning Unconscious Bias

Five Rs of Reducing Unconscious Bias

Exploring the Five Rs

Examining Unconscious Bias

Session Four: Identifying Personal Unconscious Bias

Identifying Personal Unconscious Bias

The Need for Bias

Touching Bias Today

Reflections

A Roadmap for Learning (and Re-learning)

Finding Our Filters

Exploration

Session Five: Reducing Personal Unconscious Bias

Creating a Plan

Objectives

Writing Learning Objectives

Session Six: Identifying Workplace Unconscious Bias

Where to Look

The Interview Activity

New Versus Familiar

Examining Micro-inequities

Reversing the Process

Session Seven: Reducing Workplace Unconscious Bias

Sharing New Information with Adults

Tenets of Adult Education

Other Methods of Addressing Unconscious Bias

Evaluation

Writing the Plan

Creating a Workplace Plan

Personal Action Plan

Course Summary

Recommended Reading List

Post-Course Assessment

Pre- and Post-Course Assessment Answer Key

Pre-Course Assessment

Post-Course Assessment

Assignment Answer Key

Session Three: Addressing Unconscious Bias

Session Four: Identifying Personal Unconscious Bias

Session Five: Reducing Personal Unconscious Bias

Session Six: Identifying Workplace Unconscious Bias

Session Seven: Reducing Workplace Unconscious Bias