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Apr 26, 2024
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ODL-606 Power, Privilege and Culture: Skills and Strategies4 semester credits
This course explores diversity as a challenge and an opportunity at the individual, group, and organizational level. Students focus on what they know about themselves and others as individuals, having multiple social group identities, and nested within a culture. We examine how power and privilege is embedded in systems and organizations, and the impact of culture on organizational performance, adaptation, and satisfaction. Students experiment with skills and strategies to effectively navigate and intervene in a diverse environment, including effective use of Self.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
Students will be able to:
- Learn and apply a framework for understanding the dynamics of difference at the individual, group, and systems level.
- Examine systems of privilege and difference, and the impact at multiple levels.
- Explore one’s own social group identities and the intersection of power and privilege.
- Experiment with skills and strategies to effectively navigate and intervene in a diverse environment, including effective use of Self.
- Strategize and debrief interventions based on a combination of individual professional experience, course readings and discussions, and personal reflections.
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