Course Syllabus
Welcome to the course Identity, Power and Difference!!
We your instructors, Laura Ralston and Julie Todd are excited to be on this creative and empowering journey together. This class provides rich opportunities to engage challenging topics with regards to identity, power and differences in our own lives, our towns and cities, our faith communities, our country and our world. In these days, there are no more important relevant and important topics to explore in community.
Here we introduce ourselves to you by video:
Why does Iliff require IPD of all of our professional degree students?
- The course expresses Iliff’s core justice commitments by introducing students to anti-oppression work as a central element of any kind of ministry or religious leadership work.
- Iliff is committed to educating persons who have some initial competence in working in multicultural environments and who understand their need to nurture this competency through a lifelong practice of ongoing education and development.
- We hope to help students continue to develop their understanding of the way their complex and embodied social identity has been shaped and what it communicates about them and how it influences their perspectives in the US context of structural inequality, and to begin to attend to the potential impact that this social identity could have on their work in the world.
- We are introducing some basic conceptual and interpersonal tools to navigate constructively within interlocking systems of advantage and oppression.
- We understand this work as part of students’ vocational and spiritual formation as well as preparation to fully engage other courses in the curriculum that work on issues of colonialism, oppression, and privilege in historical and contemporary contexts.
There is no required textbook for the course. All materials are provided as files and links.
Course Requirements and Grading
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