How do we create an inclusive & egalitarian society in which diversity is not merely tolerated or managed but fully harnessed as a thriving lived experience for enrichment of everyone involved & benefit of the society as a whole? Where do we stand now & how do we move forward?

 

BEYOND MULTICULTURALISM, 8-week online course, takes participants through the process of critically evaluating a spectrum of 'ethos' of societies — from assimilationist, multicultural, to a society full of multicultural individuals — empowering participants with SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS to be able to SEE, with a critical distance, WHY where we stand now is still a problem & HOW we can move beyond where we stand now towards creating a truly multicultural society & HOW we can become active agents of social transformation in the way we choose to create our everyday lives.

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The course empowers participants with:​​​​

• Capacity to zoom out & view society with a critical distance;

• Social consciousness to be able to SEE, with a critical distance, WHY where we stand now is still a problem;

• See the vision toward which we can move forward & HOW we can become active agents of social transformation; 

• Critical thinking, interdisciplinary thinking, design thinking skills in direct engagement with urgent issues of our time;

• Intercultural communication skills to be able to have 'difficult' conversations with sensitivity, acuity & ease​​;

• Writing skills to be able to present their own analysis & vision with the capacity to build a coherent and convincing line of argument

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Participants are led through weekly modules with engaging lectures & readings as well as stimulating rounds of discussion.  ​​