Spring 2010 Difficult Dialogues - UGS 303

Difficult Dialogues Signature Courses (UGS 303) are designed for second-semester freshmen who already have one semester of UT coursework in residence. Difficult Dialogues Seminars share the goals of the small seminars, but have additional emphases on principles of academic freedom and on teaching students the skills they need to participate in respectful, productive dialogue about controversial or divisive issues in the world and at UT today.

Difficult Dialogue Courses accommodate 20-25 students but carry the UGS 303 course number as they do not fulfill the writing requirement.

Spring 2009 Courses

Professor Shannon Cavanaugh
Difficult Dialogues: HIV/AIDS
This Difficult Dialogues course will draw on biological, psychological, historical, and sociological theory to provide a comprehensive overview of HIV/AIDS. Special attention will be placed on social forces like sexuality, gender, race, migration, and power and inequality that drive the prevalence of HIV/AIDS both locally and globally.

Professor Robert Crosnoe
Difficult Dialogues: Race and Public Policy in the U.S.
This course aims to help students achieve an informed perspective on how racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States have been created and maintained and how race and ethnicity continue to shape the U.S. experience.