Provides training in peer mentoring specifically focusing on communicati ve best practices, the establishment of shared goals, and effectively managing the mentor/mentee relationships.

This course will engage the relationship between communication, racism, and resistance. We'll explore how rhetoric contributes to and reinforces racial systems of power alongside the ways racialized communities wield rhetoric as a mode of resistance. The goal of the course is for students to reflect on the role of rhetoric in sustaining systems of disenfranchisement, how rhetoric can be a form of racial violence, and the profound ways rhetoric can assist in dismantling racist structures of power. Topics include studying the social movements from Black, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; colorblind and post-racial public discourse; DEI in contemporary political debates; intersectional approaches to the study of racism; and the transnational and imperial politics of racism within and beyond the United States.