3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).
J.G. Garner, A.G. Keinan
Intergroup dialogue is a form of communication specifically designed for people to engage with one another across social, cultural, and power differences in a critical and meaningful way. This class prepares students to live and work in a diverse world, and educates them in making choices that advance equity. Its main objectives are to: explore our human capacity and need to connect with ourselves and others; increase understanding of personal and social identities and how they inform our lives; explore the effects of social inequity at personal, interpersonal, and structural levels (including the ways in which it disrupts human connection); develop students’ skills to communicate, work, and lead effectively across difference; and strengthen individual and collective capacities to strategize for change on campus and beyond.
Outcome 1
Cultivate authentic and meaningful interpersonal connections across difference.
Outcome 2
Describe your own personal experience of multiple social identities.
Outcome 3
Articulate connections between individuals’ experiences of social identity and societal systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
Outcome 4
Use dialogue practices in communicating with others.
Outcome 5
Meaningfully engage with a range of perspectives on issues related to societal systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
Outcome 6
Identify actions and opportunities for ameliorating inequities connected to social identity.