About the Course
Students will explore the topics of marginalization and oppression and examine how these concepts contribute to the overall understanding of privilege. Each week students will examine brief historical events or movements rooted in overcoming marginalization. Students will use these understandings to help nonprofits make better decisions, advocate for more equitable policies, and foster inclusive work cultures through an intersectional lens. Students will also examine potential scenarios where organizations could adopt a socially conscious framework to overcome and eliminate barriers.
- Learn the principles and skills of intuitive listening while gaining deeper clarity and understanding of key DEI and allyship terminology.
- Gain insight on how to increase awareness of systems of exclusion and oppression while developing strategies to create equitable systems for all to thrive.
- Students become more aware and effective on how to use themselves as the instrument of systemic change.
- Identify strategies to address microaggressions at work and create inclusive cultural change.
- Identify strategies to reduce harmful biases in career development, and team dynamics.
- Students will define marginalization and explore how power, identity, and membership influence marginalization in its many forms.
- Students will examine ways in which oppression and marginalization have influenced policy and can affect decision making.
- Students will define privilege and intersectionality.
- Students will examine the cultural implications of privilege and intersectionality.
- Students will learn methods of overcoming issues of marginalization and oppression in nonprofit spaces.