2022-2023 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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IGD 150 - Intergroup Dialogue

Course unit(s): .5
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement DE and IL when two IGD courses are taken.
In our pluralistic society, it is vital for people to develop the capacity to address issues of difference and inequality in honest and productive ways.  Students in this class will engage in facilitated dialogues about social identity with other students whose identities differ from their own.  Participants will read, view, and discuss scholarly and artistic material about social difference, give voice to their own experiences, and listen to and learn from the views of others.  The class will investigate how systems of oppression such as racism and sexism affect different groups and examine processes of alliance-building to combat those systems.  Regular writing assignments will provide opportunities for students to extend and deepen their in-class learning.  Students will also explore ways to apply what they learn through the dialogue process toward goals of transformative change and social justice at both interpersonal and communal levels.
Meets first 9 weeks of the semester.



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