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Dialogue is a superpower. Learn more about courses that will shape your Michigan experience and change your life.
Course descriptions are updated mid-semester prior to each subsequent semester. Courses marked with an asterisk (*) count toward the Patricia Gurin Certificate of Merit in Intergroup Relations award.
The 15-credit minor in intergroup relations education will change your life forever, combining with any major to provide students with skills to bravely achieve change together.
Students who complete the minor in intergroup relations education qualify for preferred admittance into the Marsal Family School of Education's Master of Arts in higher education.
The Patricia Gurin Certificate of Merit in Intergroup Relations is awarded to graduating undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated academic mastery in intergroup relations.
The liberatory education cord is worn with graduation caps and gowns to honor undergraduate and graduate students who have made significant contributions to advance the mission of IGR and liberatory education.
The Mark Chesler Library Collection connects the university community to more than 1200 books, films, and journals on a wide range of topics related to social identity, multiculturalism, intergroup relations, and social justice. Useful for conducting independent research, enhancing curricular content, or simply broadening horizons, materials are available for use to the entire university community and are listed in the U-M Library System's MIRLYN catalog.
May 30, 2023
An openness to new and differing ideas. An ability and confidence to communicate effectively across difference. Seeing conflict not as ‘bad,’ but as an opportunity for dialogue. “I use what I’ve learned through The Program on Intergroup Relations in everything I’ve done," says alum Madison Krumins.
May 3, 2023
In 2014, Stephanie Chang (MPP/MSW '14) was approached by her community-organizing colleague, then-State Representative, now Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, to run for office. Chang wondered if as an Asian American woman she could represent what was a majority African American and Latino district in the Michigan House.
March 21, 2023
Penny Kane and Maria Tarakhovsky were honored with UM-Dearborn's Social Justice Advocate Award. Both Kane and Tarakhovsky have facilitated dialogues in ALA 171, Making the Most of Michigan, with The Program on Intergroup Relations.
March 1, 2023
For 24 hours on Giving Blueday—U-M's annual day of giving coming up on March 15th—gifts to IGR will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $5,000!
