Each May the Social Justice Project offers a two-day pedagogical workshop to train new instructors for teaching courses within the Diversity and Justice area of the University Core Curriculum (UCC Area 4). This workshop also enables instructors who already have experience with related courses to think more deeply about their teaching. Due to increased need, the workshop was also offered over the 2020 winter break, which started early because of concern about COVID. It will be offered again in May of 2021. Below is an outline of the winter break workshop, co-facilitated by Professors Wendy Christensen and Danielle Wallace. photo from May 2014 Diversity & Justice Workshop Diversity and Justice Workshop 2020 (Winter)Monday, November 30 Session I 9:00-12:00 Diversity and Justice at WP Defining our terms Critical frameworks: Intersectionality Black Lives Matter 12:00-1:00 Lunch Session II 1:00-2:00 Why justice? Inequality in higher education White supremacy and privilege 2:00-3:00 Breakout Session 1 Wrap-Up Tuesday, December 1 Session III 9:00-12:00 Reflections on previous day Teaching COVID-19 Difficult discussions in the virtual classroom The Remote Social Justice classroom 12:00-1:00 Lunch Session IV 1:00-3:00 Teaching the 2020 Election Decolonizing your classroom Breakout Session Wrap-up
