EDUC 2610 - The Intergroup Dialogue Project


(CA-AG, D-AG, SBA-AG) (CU-CEL)     
Fall, Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

A. Brown, A. Grabiner Keinan.

The Intergroup Dialogue Project (IDP) at Cornell is a structured, peer facilitated course offering an opportunity for students to develop the skills of/for dialogue in complex and dynamic social and institutional contexts. Students meet in intimate, small group settings to explore personal and social identity formation while examining historical, psychological, and sociological course readings. More broadly IDP fosters a critical awareness of the ways in which sexism, heterosexism, religious intolerance and racism disable social justice and undermine deliberative democracy. Through a variety of in class exercises, written assignments and collaborative action projects students engage, analyze and develop the skills of dialogue for effective communication across social differences in highly diverse social contexts.

Outcome 1: Examine how personal and group identity formation occurs.

Outcome 2: Understand processes of socialization and processes/structures of privilege and oppression in society.

Outcome 3: To develop the skills of dialogue through contemporary socio-cultural and institutional experience.

Outcome 4: To learn how to use conflict in a way that deepens understanding.

Outcome 5: Develop skills for collaborative action projects guided by a clear definition of justice in democratic societies.



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