COURSE INFORMATION
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IET 430 A01 (1.5 units); On Campus offering
Dates: Mondays, 6 to 9 pm: January 9 to April 2, 2012
This course facilitates intercultural relationships within the context of deconstructing systemic structures and ideologies, which impact every aspect of our society as well as our personal world-views.
Participants and instructors will engage critically, deeply and honestly. Together we will aim to facilitate and create a respectful community of learners using a dialogical (dialogue) model and an action-reflection process throughout classes and assignments. Topics for critical analysis include: equality, equity, knowledge, leadership, privilege, race, class, orientation, oppression, social justice and injustice. We will work toward developing strategies and action plans for social change and transformation in our respective spheres of influence.
The text Becoming an Ally written by Canadian author Anne Bishop will be used for this course.
Instructors
Nirmala Lall brings 20 years of diverse experiences working with communities to facilitate social change. Anti-racism, equity, inclusion, social justice, and literacy issues form the foundation of Nirmala’s passion. Nirmala holds a Masters of Education from Harvard and is currently a doctoral candidate in Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria.
Robyn Fila has a BA in Geography from the University of Victoria, and an MA in Adult Education and Global Change from Linkoping University in Sweden. Robyn is passionate and committed to experiential learning, increasing intercultural understanding, and promoting social justice issues. Robyn spent 10 years living and working in Japan, Indonesia and most recently the Czech Republic. Her projects included working on women's reproductive rights, capacity building and working with street kids in Bandung, Indonesia. Robyn is currently working as a Program Manager with the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives running the International Internship Program.
Credit and non-credit registration is available. Regular UVic students can register by signing in at http://www.uvic.ca/current/ using the CRN 27474.
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