HSED 591 - Improving Intergroup Relations Through Dialogue

3 Credit(s)

This course promotes intergroup cooperation and understanding through dialogue. The course uses Transformational Intergroup Dialogue, a social justice education model that fosters intergroup engagement and learning across social differences based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, class, and ability. The main goal of the course to improve students’ capacity to facilitate, teach, lead and manage diverse groups through dialogue. The course provides an opportunity for students to identify the individual, emotional and socio-cultural factors affecting their ability to form productive relationships across social differences. As students participate in various intergroup dialogue exercises, they explore strategies for gaining the trust and respect of individuals who are culturally different from themselves and develop an awareness of their own obstacles to intergroup interaction, engagement and leadership.