2012-2013 Academic Catalog

Apr 28, 2024

2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HS 010 - Dialogue Seminar

Type of Course: 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 a faculty member 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. The course includes readings and short papers, and attendance at 6 to 8 DD symposia events over the course of the semester is a requirement of the class.
Symposium topic for the fall of 2012: The End of Things
This semester we will focus on issues of death, extinction, and renewal. Notions of apocalypse, dystopian futures, and cataclysmic (or transformative) natural events recur in our popular culture and film, some with a focus on the year 2012. While some are speculative and superstitious, others reflect the serious challenges to our political and economic systems, and the natural environment.
Symposium topic for Spring 2013: What’s the Difference?
Thoughts on Diversity and Inclusion” will take up the challenges of meaningful diversity and inclusion. As is is our practice we’ve framed our symposium around a series of questions. These include: What do we mean by diversity and inclusion? To what are we being included? What is the value of diversity and inclusion – fairness, community, honesty, pride, intellectual and creative stimulation?