Diversity Integration I

Catalog description

This course will focus on developing and practicing the ability to have difficult dialogues and engaging in intersectional analyses necessary to build a posture of cultural humility as a foundational skill toward clinical competence with diverse groups. This course will be the first in a sequence of three diversity intensive courses. These dialogues will ask students to engage in self-reflection and intersectional analyses of multiple identities as mechanisms that inform human suffering and power, privilege and difference and similarities and differences that impact analytical and relationship skills. We will also be looking at social constructions that inform the social political landscape. The ability to dialogue and engage in an authentic intersectional analyses is considered an essential skill in preparation for clinic work with diverse marginalized and privileged populations. We consider the ability to maintain a critical dialogue to be a foundational skill and an intervention in and of itself.