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EDUC 2610/ILRID 2610: Intergroup Dialogue

Instructors: Dr. Adi Grabiner Keinan & Jazlin Gomez Garner

3 credits. Letter grade only.
Offered: Fall & Spring

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Course Description

In this course, you will learn to connect and communicate about and across differences of perspective, experience, and identity, and explore your agency to advance the social good. Through faculty lectures, engaged assignments, and conversations led by trained undergraduate facilitators, you will learn frameworks and practice skills in the areas of human connection, dimensions of difference, intentional communication, and collaborative change. Together, you will build a community of active and critically reflective co-learners; foster connections with self, others, and society; examine how human differences are shaped by sociocultural and historical contexts; and consider their consequences for politics, society, and everyday life. You will also engage in productive dialogue and generative conflict around contemporary issues and co-develop strategies that advance the social good.

EDUC 2610/ILRID 2610 is open to all Cornell undergraduate students. Each section comprises 14 – 20 students and two trained peer facilitators. Classes meet once a week for three hours. 

To support meaningful intergroup dialogue and maximize learning, we intentionally build sections that reflect a range of perspectives and experiences after students enroll in the course.

Learning Outcomes

Throughout the semester, students will have the opportunity to advance their understanding and capacity in each of the four development areas: human connection, dimensions of difference, intentional communication, and collaborative change. At the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Connect with oneself and others in a way that foregrounds human complexity and deepens a sense of mutual responsibility with others in society.
  • Analyze the impacts of multiple dimensions of difference (perspective, experience, identity) at the self, interpersonal, institutional, and societal levels.
  • Assess and critically evaluate information, theories, and assumptions from multiple and divergent perspectives, and examine their impact on individuals and communities.
  • Engage in effective dialogue about and across differences in multiple contexts.
  • Identify personal and collective agency for responsible and effective change.
  • Demonstrate clear and effective verbal and written communication of one’s own personal perspective, based on lived experiences, empirical research, and conceptual knowledge.

Frequently Asked Questions

What distribution requirements does EDUC 2610/ILRID 2610 fulfill?

  • AAP: Required Out of Department Humanities Elective: Cultural Analysis (CA) & Social Behavior Analysis (SBA)
  • CALS:
    • Pre-2025 CALS requirements (students who started at Cornell before fall 2025): Diversity (D), Cultural Analysis (CA), & Social Behavior Analysis (SBA) distribution requirements.
    • Post-2025 CALS requirements (students who started at Cornell in fall 2025 or later): Science, Society & Sustainable Studies & Cultural, Social & Historical Understanding
  • CHE: Cultural Analysis (CA) and Social Behavior Analysis (SBA) distribution requirements.
  • COE: Diversity (D), Cultural Analysis (CA), & Social Behavior Analysis (SBA) distribution requirement.
  • Dyson:  Human Diversity college distribution requirement.
  • ILR: Diversity (for students who matriculated in or after fall 2022), In-College Advanced Elective (ICE-IL)
  • SHA: Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Course.
  • Applicable towards: 
      • CALS Education Minor
      • CALS Leadership Minor 
      • CAS Inequality Studies Minor
      • Certificate in Engaged Leadership

We suggest you confirm with your college, as distribution requirements frequently change.

Section’s full? Add your name to the waitlist.

Seats are first-come, first-served; however, there are a number of seats reserved for ILR students. If you are not able to enroll in EDUC 2610/ILRID 2610 in Student Center, you should still submit a Placement Form. When you submit a Placement Form, you will automatically be added to the waitlist. You should continue to check for open seats and enroll yourself if a seat becomes available. 

Once a section is full, or the course has started, you will not be able to enroll yourself, and you will need a permission code to enroll in the course pending availability. As seats open up (if students drop the course or switch sections), we will begin to reach out to students on the waitlist to offer them a seat throughout the duration of the add period. We will contact you by email if a space opens up for you. You do not need to do anything in addition to submitting a Placement Form.

But the section says it’s open in Student Center. 

This could be for two reasons:

  1. There are a number of seats reserved for specific class years and for ILR students.
  2. Classes have started or are about to start, and we have switched the course to require department consent to enroll, i.e., students will need a permission code to enroll.

Although a section appears to be open, if you are receiving an error message when you try to enroll, it is because you are ineligible based on your class year and/or college, or the course requires a permission code. A couple of the sections have enrollment criteria, but most of the sections do not. If you are unable to enroll in one section due to enrollment group criteria, try a different section. If you’re still not able to enroll, submit a placement form to get added to the waitlist.

Can I enroll in ILRID 2610?

Students wanting to enroll in ILRID 2610 should enroll in EDUC 2610 during pre-enroll. Students will be able to switch to ILRID 2610 during add/drop as needed.

How do I drop EDUC 2610/ILRID 2610?

Once the class has started, dropping EDUC 2610/ILRID 2610 requires department consent, as it is important for us to have an accurate course roster and to know if a student is dropping so we can add additional students from the waitlist.

Submit an EDUC 2610/ILRID 2610 Removal Request Form to notify us of your intention to drop the course and to receive department consent to drop the course in Student Center. The details we ask for in the form help us process your request as quickly as possible. You will receive an email notification once your request has been processed.

ILR students must meet with an advisor in OSS to request permission to drop after the add deadline.

Please contact nms68@cornell.edu with any questions or for more information.