Dec 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog

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HOS 298 - Customer Service for a Diverse World


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; Diversity
Exploration of customer service strategies for a diverse world. Integral aspects of customer service: customer experiences, engaging customers, communication, customer feedback, exceeding expectations, and service improvement. Focus on culturally diverse groups; differences and individual needs as related to customer service.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: HOS 100 and REC 100.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. Explain basic customer service aspects related to internal and external customers.
  2. Describe customer service strategies for culturally diverse groups.
  3. Develop a customer service strategy for an organization focusing on service to cultural groups.
  4. Through collaborative group research, present a video summary of a company/business/organization’s customer service program that recognizes and supports diverse cultural groups.
  5. Prepare a research paper that details diversity in customer service along with a personal perspective.


GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
 

  1. Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
  2. Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
  3. Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
  1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
  2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
  3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
  4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.



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