*Applications for Spring 2025 are now closed*
Sample comments from participants: “. . . a great semester—the conversations were both informative and helped me reflect on my own teaching and discourse, on and off campus.” “This was a most thought-provoking series of discussions.” “I surely learned a lot that I will apply both inside and outside the classroom going forward.” “I very much appreciated our conversations and explorations.” |
An Interactive Training for Instructors and Group Leaders
In Spring 2025, CEHV will offer its second teaching endorsement through the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning entitled Ethical Disagreement and Civil Discourse.
Through active learning exercises, this endorsement provides instructors and group leaders with tools and strategies to navigate contentious ethical disagreements and foster civil discourse in their classrooms or programs.
Participants are introduced to principles of civil discourse, participate in a dialogue facilitation skill-building exercise, and receive training in dissecting common ethical disagreements. The endorsement is led by a team of PhD trained ethicists and political philosophers at the Center for Ethics and Human Values with extensive experience in the classroom and leading dialogue facilitation with students.
The endorsement is built around four active-learning workshops + an online Scarlet Canvas course that introduces principles of civil discourse. Participants will also have up to two hours of homework during the course of the endorsement program.
All elements of the program are required for successful completion:
- Workshop: Challenges for Civil Discourse
- Scarlet Canvas course: The 4Cs of Civil Discourse (Be Curious, Be Charitable, Be Conscientious, Be Constructive)
- Workshop: Practicing Civil Discourse
- Workshop: Dialogue Facilitation + Skill-Building
- Workshop: Dissecting Ethical Disagreements
Successful completion of the program will make you eligible to apply for an official teaching endorsement from Ohio State's Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning.
Note: completion of the endorsement program requires attendance at all 4 workshops and the associated online Scarlet Canvas course. Workshop dates are 4-5:45pm on January 14, February 11, March 5, and April 8.
This endorsement is open only to faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and staff members at Ohio State University.
If you have questions, please contact CEHV Civil Discourse Program Director, Dr. Kathryn Joyce (.173).