Designing and Building Institutional Antiracist Spaces (D-BIAS) is a course whose mission is to teach and apply tenets of equity, anti-racism, and cultural justice to students from Institutions to achieve social change. The course is aimed at educators and administrators in educational spaces, lawyers and advocates in spaces that touch civil rights, equity, and whose Institutional mission it is to achieve greater cultural equity.
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The course involves creative approaches to social justice, racial justice, and advocacy while remaining open to anyone from any background who shares the same vision of the world, as social change entrepreneurs.
What You Will Learn
- The course final assignment will allow students to become designers of cultural equity, and build their own workshops at their own institutions.
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Prelude: Getting on the same page
Welcome to Wesleyan University and Justiceology's Designing & Building Institutional Antiracist Spaces (D-BIAS)! You are here because you are interested in more than the usual one-and-done diversity workshops. You understand, or at least suspect, that to make real change in society, we must look at the deeper roots of inequity. By taking this course, you will learn a set of tools and a framework that you can adapt to your own institution and set change in motion. You will need a notebook (online or paper and pencil) so that you can record your thoughts, as you work through the course. At the end you will be ready to train others to use this methodology either on your own or in further partnership with JBD. The work we are about to undertake is hard work, but ultimately, it is the most rewarding work. The world will be a better place for your contribution.
WEEK 2
Chapter 1, Justiceology By Design - Tough On Crime
You've learned crucial tools in the Prelude. In this chapter, Chapter 1, you'll practice applying those skills.
WEEK 3
Chapter 2, Looting vs. Rioting
You're on to your second workshop. This week you'll be honing and building on those skills from last week.
WEEK 4
Chapter 3, Final -- Creating Your Own Justice Workshop
You've learned facts, concepts, vocabulary and tools that will allow you to look at your own institution an analyze both what needs to change, and how to change it. We'll walk you through it here.
