Pieter de Vos
Contact
School of Public Health
- devos@ualberta.ca
Courses
INT D 227 - Engaging Division: Consensus and Confrontation in Civic Life
This course helps students from all disciplines develop practical skills to understand and respond to political division. Students will study different ways to approach division - from finding common ground to embracing opposition - and learn how to apply these lessons in their own lives and communities.
MACE 553 - Facilitating Engagement
Addressing the complex challenges facing communities requires new frameworks and practices to harness diverse perspectives and to facilitate dialogue, sense-making, deliberation, and collective action. This course will introduce learners to facilitation concepts, methods and tools relevant to community-based organizations and social innovation initiatives. Students will also get an opportunity to hone their skills in designing, delivering, and evaluating facilitative processes.