EDUC 2610 - Intergroup Dialogue

(crosslisted) ILRID 2610
(CA-AG, D-AG, SBA-AG) (CU-CEL)

Fall, Spring. 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.