Through deliberate reflections on the past and current patterns of exclusion and inclusion within your disciplinary field, you will develop skills for engaging in equitable and inclusive processes and practices that can transform your collaborations and approach to your discipline. This course engages students, from multiple social identity groups, in facilitated dialogue that focus on the tensions, similarities, and differences of experience that exist within, between, and/or across groups.

Facilitation is an artform and a science. This course is designed to introduce students to foundational dialogue facilitation skills and social justice frameworks needed to effectively facilitate group interactions across and within social differences. Students will apply the skills learned by facilitating a multi-session dialogue course with either the Common Ground or the Words of Engagement Intergroup Dialogue Program (WeIDP).