EDUC 2610

Intergroup Dialogue

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2021-2022.

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.

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Distribution Category (CA-AG, D-AG, SBA-AG)
Course Attribute (CU-CEL)

• 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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