Intergroup Relations (IG)

An exploration of racial identity, intersectionality, conflict, and community using dialogue as a tool for social justice education. Trained peer-facilitators guide students through a structured process that deepens self-awareness while developing inter- and intra-group communication skills and understanding. Honoring lived experiences alongside historical and theoretical insights, students grapple with challenging issues such as cancel culture, immigration, and interracial relationships, while making space for curiosity, discomfort, and growth.

An exploration of racial identity, intersectionality, conflict, and community using dialogue as a tool for social justice education. Trained peer-facilitators guide students through a structured process that deepens self-awareness while developing inter- and intra-group communication skills and understanding. Honoring lived experiences alongside historical and theoretical insights, students grapple with challenging issues such as cancel culture, immigration, and interracial relationships, while making space for curiosity, discomfort, and growth.

An exploration of racial identity, intersectionality, conflict, and community using dialogue as a tool for social justice education. Trained peer-facilitators guide students through a structured process that deepens self-awareness while developing inter- and intra-group communication skills and understanding. Honoring lived experiences alongside historical and theoretical insights, students grapple with challenging issues such as cancel culture, immigration, and interracial relationships, while making space for curiosity, discomfort, and growth.

An exploration of racial identity, intersectionality, conflict, and community using dialogue as a tool for social justice education. Trained peer-facilitators guide students through a structured process that deepens self-awareness while developing inter- and intra-group communication skills and understanding. Honoring lived experiences alongside historical and theoretical insights, students grapple with challenging issues such as cancel culture, immigration, and interracial relationships, while making space for curiosity, discomfort, and growth.

An examination of special topics, methods, and areas in intergroup relations. Specific topics vary by instructor and semester.

An examination of the concept of home as it relates to the historical and contemporary realities of Black people in the United States. Using the work of renowned scholars and writers such as bell hooks and Toni Morrison, students explore notions of home as a catalyst for, IGR, dialogue both within and between families and communities. Students interrogate their own experiences of home as they grow as a community of writers and critical thinkers.

What is the fight and how do we engage? This course guides students in an examination of the historical and societal context as well as contemporary applicability of pieces that dare folks to engage on a visceral level (music, theater, poetry, prose). Students will explore creative works and oratorical moments that issue a call-to-action, while giving voice and visibility to Black women. Students will articulate their own calls-to-action relative to current realities, as well as participate in the conceptualization of a course-inspired campus event bridging Black History Month and Women’s History Month.

An examination at the advanced level of special topics, methods, and areas in intergroup relations theory and praxis. Specific topics vary by instructor and semester.

An integration of social theory and praxis in a seminar that prepares students to facilitate intergroup and intragroup social justice dialogues exploring race and intersecting identities. How can we learn to engage more effectively about race, power, and privilege? What factors hinder meaningful engagement? What skills promote both interracial and intra-racial communication on important social issues? Through readings on social identity theory, reflective and analytic writing, and experiential practice of dialogic communication skills, students learn to facilitate dialogues on provocative topics such as cancel culture, immigration, and interracial relationships.

A course that helps students develop and improve their skills as dialogue facilitators. This will be done in the context of the belief that facilitation skills can be used throughout life to create social change. Good facilitators are social change agents. Moreover, by debriefing their actual dialogue experiences, facilitators can deepen their learning about racial identity, discrimination, privilege, and social justice. 

An intergroup or intragroup dialogue course in which students facilitate dialogues about racial identity, conflict, community, and social justice. 

A capstone experience option for IGR minors. Students conceptualize and execute a project that shares intergroup relations tenets with the campus community and/or community-at-large, under the guidance of intergroup relations program faculty.

A program of individual reading and research under the direction of the intergroup relations faculty.