2014-2015 Academic Catalog

May 16, 2024

2014-2015 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IDND 010 - Dialogue Seminar

If you want an opportunity to deepen your understanding and experience of dialogue, consider taking the Dialogue Seminar offered as part of the Difficult Dialogues Initiative. Each section of this half-credit course will be led by teams of faculty members paired with experienced DD fellows. The course will include a small set of readings on dialogue, but will focus on in-class dialogues that draw from the experiences and issues raised by the public events in the Difficult Dialogues fall symposium. Attendance at roughly one DD symposia event per week will be a requirement of the class.

Symposium topic for the spring of 2012: Agency

Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to act on and realize those choices in the world. It is the state of being in action or exerting power; it is how a result is obtained or an end achieved. This spring we consider the nature of agency, and the conditions around and the possibilities for agency in our current political and economic environment. We will look at who has agency and why, and explore emerging forms of agency that are proving transformative.