Intergroup Dialogue
In this course, you will learn to connect and communicate about and across differences of perspective, experience, and identity, and explore your agency to advance the social good. Through faculty lectures, engaged assignments, and conversations led by trained undergraduate facilitators, you will learn frameworks and practice skills in the areas of human connection, dimensions of difference, intentional communication, and collaborative change. Together, you will build a community of active and critically reflective co-learners; foster connections with self, others, and society; examine how human differences are shaped by sociocultural and historical contexts; and consider their consequences for politics, society, and everyday life. You will also engage in productive dialogue and generative conflict around contemporary issues and co-develop strategies that advance the social good.
Topics
- Connect with oneself and others in a way that foregrounds human complexity and deepens a sense of mutual responsibility with others in society.
- Analyze the impacts of multiple dimensions of difference (perspective, experience, identity) at the self, interpersonal, institutional, and societal levels.
- Assess and critically evaluate information, theories, and assumptions from multiple and divergent perspectives, and examine their impact on individuals and communities.
- Engage in effective dialogue about and across differences in multiple contexts.
- Identify personal and collective agency for responsible and effective change.
- Demonstrate clear and effective verbal and written communication of one's own personal perspective, based on lived experiences, empirical research, and conceptual knowledge.
- Cultivate authentic and meaningful interpersonal connections across difference.
- Describe your own personal experience of multiple social identities.
- Articulate connections between individuals' experiences of social identity and societal systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
- Use dialogue practices in communicating with others.
- Meaningfully engage with a range of perspectives on issues related to societal systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
- Identify actions and opportunities for ameliorating inequities connected to social identity.
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Catalogue variants
- Intergroup Dialogue · 3.0 · Undergraduate