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