iBelieve: Faith, Service and Inter-Community Dialogue
iBelieve is a course aimed at exploring spiritual/ideological identity development, community building, leadership and examples of interfaith action. The program includes an Alternative Spring Break Trip that allows students to visit and learn from local religious communities that are engaged in social change.
The goals of this program are:
1. To prepare students to facilitate dialogue around interfaith issues on campus and in their various career paths.
2. To create and/or expand leadership around interfaith community-building.
3. To develop skills in communicating and collaborating across differences.
The format of the course will call for students to become co-collaborators in the education of the class and therefore leaders of their own learning. This approach is modeled on the success of the Greenfield Intercultural Center's Program for Awareness and Cross-Cultural Education (PACE) course - which has been an effective tool for supporting and creating hundreds of leaders over the last 17 years.
Faculty Members: Kathy Hall and Steve Krocher
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Click here to read the 2012 student reflections!
