Military Experience Petition
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Diversity (D) Credit for Military Experience
A student may petition for diversity (D) credit based on military experience. Petitions must be submitted to the committee through the Cardinal Core website and adhere to the following criteria:
Please provide a 500-1000 word essay explaining how military experience addresses the outcomes of the identified Diversity competency (D1 or D2). You must present clear evidence of competency in all three of the outcomes for D1 or D2. For each learning outcome the essay should explain how and why they experience met the learning outcomes. You must present evidence to support your claim. Petitions will be strongly evaluated on the student’s ability to demonstrate the outcomes of the diversity competency in the essay.
*Your essay should:
- Provide the type of Diversity credit that is requested
- Provide an overview of where you served and the timeframe for your service.
- Discuss factors, such as politics, economics, religion, and/or issues of identify, etc. for the societies where you served.
- Explain how the identified factors shaped your own interactions and the interactions of others during your service.
- Discuss how the identified factors shape life experiences and opportunities of the individuals within the society
- Discuss how this experience impacted your own social perspective.