Instructor: Linda Yaven
This has proven an enormously helpful course--and somewhat intense for all involved. Students are challenged to question their own communications biases in personal reflection, team projects, one-on-one interactions and through a variety of projects. Assignments are weekly with one big learning event produced for the program by the students themselves at the end of the semester.
Most of the readings for this course use a reader that gathers articles, reports, and chapters throughout a wide variety of sources and, unfortunately, isn't available outside the program. However, there are two required books as well:
Suggested Readings include:
• Martin Barber's I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue, by Kenneth Paul Kramer
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman
• The 100 Languages of Children, The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections, Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George Forman • The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
This has proven an enormously helpful course--and somewhat intense for all involved. Students are challenged to question their own communications biases in personal reflection, team projects, one-on-one interactions and through a variety of projects. Assignments are weekly with one big learning event produced for the program by the students themselves at the end of the semester.
Most of the readings for this course use a reader that gathers articles, reports, and chapters throughout a wide variety of sources and, unfortunately, isn't available outside the program. However, there are two required books as well:
- Difficult Conversations, How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, and Roger Fisher
- A General Theory of Love, by Dr. Thomas Lewis
Suggested Readings include:
• Martin Barber's I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue, by Kenneth Paul Kramer
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman
• The 100 Languages of Children, The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections, Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George Forman • The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki