Leading w/ Empathy: Cultivating Relationships, Building Community, and Navigating Conflict at Tulane

Catalog description

This course offers an introduction to the foundations of empathy and the role it plays in relationships and addressing conflict. Topics covered will include the primacy of empathy in addressing conflict, community building, active listening, and techniques to hold conversations among people in conflict or that disagree with each other. Students will gain an understanding of the role that inclusion and equity play in developing empathy and will learn, through personal reflection, guest lecture, and in-person experience, the skills and techniques necessary to manifest empathy in their own lives, relationships, and conflicts as well as various resources within the Tulane and Greater New Orleans community available for support when they run into problems within these areas.