The Deep Dive

It’s official! Thanks to many requests from educators and participants in the Unify Challenge College Bowl, students now have a chance to “go deep” into a single topic to practice critical civic skills in a one-on-one setting. 

Meet the Deep Dive, Unify America’s second intercollegiate learning program in Unify America’s Civic Gym series. 

The Deep Dive gives students a chance to explore their point of view in-depth on a single critical issue facing America today and to help a conversation partner explore theirs through active listening and follow-up questions. They’ll be able to deepen their understanding of the issue, develop a more nuanced point of view on the topic, practice supporting their opinion with facts and personal experience, and collaboratively brainstorm solutions to a societal problem.

In The Deep Dive, your students will work the civic muscle groups necessary to discuss an important issue in depth. This experience will allow students to practice:

• Describing their personal experience with a particular issue to a partner. 
• Listening to and summarizing their partner’s point of view. 
• Differentiating between their own and their partner’s points of view.
• Reviewing and discussing researched facts on the issue. 
• Revising their point of view based on the facts presented in the experience and based on their partner’s question.  
• Critically evaluating possible tactics for solving the issue.
• Collaborating on generating ideas for new tactics to address the issue. 

This Fall, students can choose to dive into Gun Ownership and Gun Violence (October 22), Voting in America (October 24), or Free Speech and Hate Speech (October 29).

Ready to learn more or try the program out on your campus? Please email Director of Partnerships Abby Ferguson at abby@unifyamerica.org.