The DCI is supporting the development of courses that incorporate deliberation on challenging but important issues. These courses include both writing courses and policy-related courses that incorporate opportunities for students to improve their skills in deliberation and practice engaging with one another on difficult topics.
In the spring of 2020, five Davidson courses, including three writing courses, piloted the incorporation of deliberation more directly into their syllabi. In 2021, the DCI launched the Deliberative Pedagogy (DeeP) Collaborative, a community of faculty members dedicated to learning about and utilizing innovative ways that foster productive deliberation in their courses. More information about DeeP can be found on the DCI’s Deliberation Across the Curriculum Program page.
Since 2021 a wide range of deliberative courses have been developed since the launch of the Collaborative — over 60 professors from 28 institutions have systematically embedded deliberation into at least one of their courses. Check out the blog posts that these faculty members have written about these courses on the DCI Blog listed below.
Critical Points and Critical Thinking: Discernment Through Multivariable Calculus
A Deliberative Approach to Teaching and Learning History
A Deliberative Approach to Understanding the Universe
Embedding Deliberation in a Course on Race Across the Americas
Aggies DO – Deliberation in Social Psychology
From Argument Culture to Deliberative Culture
Transforming Classroom Conversations: My Journey with Deliberative Environmental Economics
Deliberating about Human Rights in a Non-dominant Language
