2025 Summer Session D
6 weeks, July 7 - August 15
LS 4 001 - LEC 001
Openness to Opposing Views
Berkeley Changemaker: Openness to Opposing Views
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Jul 07, 2025 - Aug 15, 2025
Su
12:00 am - 12:01 am
Internet/Online
Class #:14020
Units: 1
Instruction Mode:
Online
Asynchronous Instruction
Offered through
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
92
Enrolled: 8
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 100
Waitlist Max: 10
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 6 hours of outside work hours per week.
Other classes by Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Course Catalog Description
What does it mean to be open to opposing views? This course emphasizes the Berkeley Changemaker themes of critical thinking, effective communication, and productive collaboration. You will combine critical examination of evidence-based, multi-disciplinary research and theories with personal self-reflection and practice in engaged discourse. These are interwoven with implementable strategies, directly applicable to the public, private, and civic sectors, to help you develop a sharper sense of how to engage productively with those whose perspective might be radically different from your own. As you do so, you will be exposed to approaches from academic disciplines across UC Berkeley and will sharpen your changemaking skillset.
Class Description
What does it mean to be open to opposing views? This course emphasizes the Berkeley Changemaker themes of critical thinking, effective communication, and productive collaboration. You will combine critical examination of evidence-based, multi-disciplinary research and theories with personal self-reflection and practice in engaged discourse. These are interwoven with implementable strategies, directly applicable to the public, private, and civic sectors, to help you develop a sharper sense of how to engage productively with those whose perspective might be radically different from your own. As you do so, you will be exposed to approaches from academic disciplines across UC Berkeley and will sharpen your changemaking skillset.
Class Notes
*This class will be taught asynchronously.*
Lower-division students should enroll in the lower-division section (L&S 4), while third year students and above should enroll in the upper-division version (L&S 104) of this course. No student should enroll in more than one section of this co.. show more
Lower-division students should enroll in the lower-division section (L&S 4), while third year students and above should enroll in the upper-division version (L&S 104) of this course. No student should enroll in more than one section of this co.. show more
*This class will be taught asynchronously.*
Lower-division students should enroll in the lower-division section (L&S 4), while third year students and above should enroll in the upper-division version (L&S 104) of this course. No student should enroll in more than one section of this course.
Class website: https://changemaker.berkeley.edu/ls-4104-berkeley-changemaker-openness-opposing-views show less
Lower-division students should enroll in the lower-division section (L&S 4), while third year students and above should enroll in the upper-division version (L&S 104) of this course. No student should enroll in more than one section of this course.
Class website: https://changemaker.berkeley.edu/ls-4104-berkeley-changemaker-openness-opposing-views show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
Associated Sections
None