SDL 200 - Bridging the Gap: Dialogue Across Difference

Credit Hours: 3

Cross campus exchange to practice dialogue skills across political, cultural, and experiential differences, with students from Oberlin College. Students will practice listening deeply, seeking to understand, hearing across lines of difference, and seeking common ground without attempting to change minds or compromising deeply held values. Offers tools to go beyond the headlines, create constructive tension, understand shared humanity, develop practices of effective communication, and solve pressing problems with those of different backgrounds and beliefs. Includes site visits with a broad range of criminal justice stakeholders in Michigan. Participants develop proposals for criminal justice reform, integrating bipartisan perspectives.