WEID - Words of Engagement Intergroup Dialogue Program
WEID138 Bridging Divides thru Intergroup Dialogue Across Disciplines (1 Credit)
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.
Cross-listed with: EDDI110.
Restriction: CPSP110 restricted to students in College Park Scholars.
WEID139 Navigating Difference through Intergroup Dialogue (1 Credit)
The goal of intergroup dialogue is for students to develop comfort with, and skill for, discourse on controversial, difficult, and divisive topics in an effort to foster positive, meaningful, and sustained cross-group relationships. Whereas in debate, students learn to listen to gain advantage, in intergroup dialogue, students learn to listen to gain understanding. In so doing, students develop increased capacity for interaction across difference, heightened intergroup awareness and sensitivity, and greater commitment to community engagement.
Prerequisite: Completion of on-line enrollment form.
Cross-listed with: ENES338.
Repeatable to: 6 credits.
Credit Only Granted for: CHSE338, EDHI338, ENES338 or WEID139.
Formerly: CHSE338.