Monday,
15 January
Spruce Cabin |
Retool Your Reasoning |
Preparation |
Course Syllabus
A Rulebook for Arguments (pp xi - 52) and (pp 71 - 78)
Editorial pages of a good newspaper and/or news magazine
* Bring nice clothing for evening event, Dinner with Dr. Doody
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Focus |
Critical reading skills
Argument analysis and creation
The potholes of grammar and syntax
The potholes of etiquette
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Content
and
Activities
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Review of informal arguments
Formal argument analysis (formulas and fallacies)
Assessment of technique in parsing out written passages
Exploration of common errors of usage and style in writing
Application of analysis skills to short case
Evening social event
5:30 - 6:30 cocktails, followed by dinner at 6:30 - 8:30ish
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Tuesday, 16 January
Spruce Cabin
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Refracting the Lens of Bias |
Preparation |
Review A Rulebook for Arguments
Pence, The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
"Bad Blood: A Case Study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study"
Intercultural Communication website
Monochronic and Polychronic Cultures
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Focus |
The challenges of intercultural communication
The power of taboos
Ethics and inequity in science and society
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Content
and
Activities
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How to identify context in communicating across cultures
Discussion of operative taboos in our culture
More logic
Analysis/implications of Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Further questions about race, socioeconomics, culture and inequity
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Wednesday, 17 January
Spruce Cabin
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Environmental Justice and Social Equity |
Preparation |
Figueroa and Mills, Environmental Justice
Rolston, Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World
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Focus |
Justice in environment and society
Local and global environmental justice
Ethical norms: Culture vs. Nature
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Content
and
Activities
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Application of intercultural theories to a current issue
Relationship of intercultural theory and social equity
Ecosystem approaches to ethics
More logic
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Thursday, 18 January
Spruce Cabin
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Art, Culture, Conflict |
Preparation |
Getting to Yes
Foster, The Narrative and the Ambient in Environmental Aesthetics
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Focus |
The role of mediation in resolving conflict
Nonverbal communication
Aesthetic and cultural factors in environmental value
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Content
and
Activities
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Using argument techniques in articulating positions
Application of mediation techniques to direct conflict
Analysis of nonverbal cues in conflict
Framing environmental values individually and collectively
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Friday, 19 January
SK Land Trust Barn
Matunuck
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Leadership, Collectivity and Communication |
Preparation |
Review Getting to Yes
Review everything else
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Focus |
Leadership styles and group communication
Humanistic tools in environmental contexts
Project overview (guest facilitators: Co-5 cohort)
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Content
and
Activities
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Review skills and issues of the week
Exercises to develop team identity (guest facilitator, Dr. Gene Knott)
Prepare for Saturday project event
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Saturday, 20 January
SK Land Trust Barn
Matunuck
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CIIP Trainees' Project Presentation |
Preparation |
TBD!
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Focus |
TBD!
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Content
and
Activities
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TBD!
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The TBD or "to be determined" label is applied because you will have a major say in how this day plays out.
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At the conclusion of the week each student is required to post to the CIIP blog summarizing his/her assessment of the week and the final exercise as it applies to:
1) individual goals, and
2) the overall CIIP goals.