Education 809

EDUC 809 - Facilitating Equitable Change

Credits: (3)

Instructional Method: Three hours lecture.


In this course, students will explore different tools and strategies for facilitating difficult and courageous conversations with stakeholders in an effort to advance social justice and equity-based changes within their own professional contexts.

Content

In this course, students will explore different tools and strategies for facilitating difficult and courageous conversations with stakeholders in an effort to advance social justice and equity-based changes within their own professional contexts. Students will engage in exploring several topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Cultural perspectives of communication with various stakeholders
  • Preventing conversations from breaking down
  • Principles of effective communication with various stakeholders
  • Sustaining courageous and difficult conversations that make equitable change attainable

Detailed Description of Conduct of Course

  • Students may engage in both synchronous and asynchronous online activities.
  • The content of the course may be delivered through professional readings, small and whole group discussions, case studies, role plays, quick writes, and guest and peer presentations.
  • Interactive lectures and presentations by the professor will be utilized to supplement and reinforce course material.
  • Students will be expected to apply their learning to how they enact leadership in terms of their problem of practice and their implementation of change ideas.

Student Learning Outcomes

 

In this course, students will

  • Critically examine cultural perspectives of communication with various stakeholders. Critically examine principles of effective communication with various stakeholders in enacting change.
  • Develop the skills to prevent conversations from breaking down.
  • Develop the skills to sustain courageous/difficult conversations that make equitable change attainable.
  • Critically assess whether their interventions are making positive changes, particularly for historically marginalized groups.
  • Develop plans for spreading both successful change ideas as well as the culture of continuous inquiry and improvement.

Assessment Measures

Assessment measures may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Case study analysis Critical reading reflections

Final essay

Literature reviews

Quizzes

Presentations

Role plays

 

 

Review and approved

June, 2023