PLSCI 5500

Let Your Life Speak: Selfhood, Community, Change

Course Description

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

Form trustworthy relationships and be a part of creating and benefiting from reflection and meaningful conversation. Learn principles and practices for deeper listening. Discover an inner capacity to lead a more authentic, meaningful and resilient life, forming a commitment to positive action and courage to act with integrity. Consider questions to inform your "right fit" with regard to your profession, develop the inner authority to articulate who you are, what you are about, and how you intend to contribute – all as a vital foundation for your professional life beyond graduate student life. Cultivate the skills and capacities to form community in the classroom, with others at Cornell, and in the spaces in which you will live and work one day.

When Offered Fall.

• Form trustworthy relationships which can foster the increased dignity, respect and connection named in our Cornell University values.
• Create and benefit from space for reflection and meaningful conversation aimed at learning to trust your inner voice, and aligned this wisdom with your outer work in the world – offering the chance to encourage in one another 'unpredicted lines of thinking' and creativity which is often only tapped in spaces for reflection.
• Engage in collegial conversations that form the foundation for the clarity and courage to connect with the longings and passions that brought you to Cornell.
• Learn principles and practices for deeper listening and wholehearted decision-making.
• Discover an inner capacity to lead a more authentic, meaningful and resilient life, forming a commitment to positive action and courage to act with integrity here at Cornell and when you graduate.
• Consider some questions to inform your "right fit" with regard to your profession and developed the "inner authority" to articulate who you are, what you are about, and how you intend to contribute – all as a vital foundation for your professional life beyond Cornell University.
• Cultivate the skills and capacities to form life-giving communities – in the classroom, with others in your graduate cohort, at Cornell, and in the spaces in which you will live and work one day.

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