Course Description
This course is designed to explore the factors that influence the biases that impede our decisions that exist at the intersection of self-awareness and motivated cognition. It offers participants transformative insight toward greater personal and professional understanding in equity-centered, self-leadership. More specifically, it challenges learners to uncover how their own biases, privileges, and experiences of marginalization shape their roles within larger systems, both in education and beyond.
Course Outline
- The Brain and the Foundation of Motivated Cognition and Self-Referential Processing
- Unpacking Bias
- Power and Privilege in Leadership
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Critically evaluate biases behind their motivate cognition and its role in self-awareness.
- Learn and recognize the impact of social identity and privilege.
- Build strategies to overcome cognitive biases and self-limiting beliefs.
- Develop tools for self-reflection, resilience, and fostering inclusive environments.
Microcredential
This course provides learners with the opportunity to earn a microcredential. A microcredential is evidence of a skill or competency that is employment related. Dalhousie microcredentials are developed in collaboration with employers, industries, and/or organizations that relate to the content. A microcredential can be displayed on social media pages, digital resumes, personal webpages, and in email signatures. To earn the microcredential in this course, learners will need to successfully complete a competency-based assessment.
Notes
The Faculty of Open Learning & Career Development recommends an intermediate level of English language proficiency for the most effective learning and participation in our online and face-to-face courses. A list of minimum recommended scores on some common English tests can be found on our website. If you have questions about your English language proficiency and ability to succeed in this course, please contact openlearning@dal.ca.Recommended For
This course is ideal for anyone looking to deepen their self-awareness.Testimonials
"This course was extremely valuable and gave me a number of tools that I can start to implement right away to help improve the sense of inclusivity on my team and that will help to improve hiring practices. The instructor, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, is a brilliant teacher who gave dynamic and in-depth learning experiences in our live sessions and provided assignments and readings that were excellent companions to the course. I'd highly recommend this program to anyone leading or work with teams."
~ Ann MacDonald, Dalhousie University
"I absolutely recommend it! It has been a pleasure to learn from Celina's experience, as well as from the cohort. Celina is not only knowledgeable but also personable and kind. The live discussions each week have been especially valuable and the course has been easy to navigate."
~ Eduardo Ramirez, Dalhousie University