HED635

040645

This is a theoretical and experiential learning course in awareness, knowledge, understanding, and skills needed to effectively facilitate multicultural group interactions including structured intergroup dialogues from global perspectives. Intergroup dialogue is a practice model that encourages diverse groups of students to learn from each other and gain the intercultural competence they will need to effectively participate as citizens, leaders, and professionals in our increasingly global, diverse, and stratified society. This course provides students with the foundational knowledge, awareness, and skills for planning, facilitating, and evaluating intergroup dialogue activities in global settings, and with diverse groups of participants.

This course focuses on intergroup dialogue skills with graduate students, so they can be active change agents as planners and facilitators of intergroup dialogues both while participating in Global Experiential Learning Programs, and in students professional lives. The topics of this course range from the social psychology of intergroup relations, intercultural and dialogic communication theories, methods for bridging differences, research and evaluation of intergroup dialogues and other educational methods for improving intergroup relations, and core competencies for planning, delivering, and evaluating intergroup dialogues in multicultural settings.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate