Students desiring half credit will attend all group meetings, submit a comparative critique of the current policy, participate in assigned activities associated with the project and do an in-class presentation. None We will be examining the social, psychological and religious literature related to reducing inter-group conflict. We will focus on factors related to the development of conflict, such as the formation of stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes, and different strategies that people in these areas have used to overcome the group divisions. The goal of this project is to create and publish the first issue of a bilingual, Spanish-English newspaper. The issue will come out in February.
Students can work on or off campus, for full or half credit.
They focus on issues of affordable housing, economic sustainability, and care and restoration of the environment. By helping build straw bale houses, we'll study one model of economically sustainable affordable housing. The goal of this three-week study tour is to give ten Oberlin students the opportunity to encounter and study the contemporary culture of Ireland. The study tour will be centered in Galway, at the National University of Ireland. The Truth in Reconciliation Commission in South Africa was a seminal event, yet the reasons that survivors of human rights violations chose to testify before the TRC are unknown.