PSYC 496 ID3: Facilitating Intergroup Dialogue Processes (3 credits)

Fall 2013 (CRN: 37966)

Mondays 12pm-2:50pm

Instructor: Ross Wantland

How can we have productive and strategic conversations about social justice issues? How can we build understanding across difference? PSYC 496 ID3 (ID4 is available for graduate students) provides students a general overview of the skills and knowledge needed to facilitate culturally diverse group interactions. The course is open to undergraduate (ID3) and graduate students (ID4). Students will explore the impact of gender, ethnicity, race, religious identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, disability and physical appearance on group dynamics, while also building their own skills to facilitate these dialogues.

Following the course, students have an opportunity to apply to become EPSY 203 student dialogue facilitators or facilitate IConnect workshops for first year students in Spring 2014. E-mail Ross at wantland@illinois.edu for more information.