Sam and Alijah meet up for potentially the final Office Hours and Podcast of 2025. They talk about Trump's comments about Rob Reiner, Sam's public and private life (and if there is a difference), before finishing up reviewing their semester teaching in a prison.
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Dr. Laurie Mulvey joins Sam for the third installment talking about facilitated dialogue. In this episode, Laurie breaks down her "Thinking Together" Dialogue Method. How does it compare to other forms of dialogues? What will happen in the future?
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Sam ends the semester going over analytics of the semester before going over his final message to his students.
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Sam and Alijah go over topics and questions that the chat has brough up over the past few weeks.
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Sam invites students to come up and ask Sam about a number of topics.
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Sam is joined by Laurie for the second installment about facilitated dialogues.
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Laurie joins Sam for another facilitated dialogue. This time, two students join the parents of radical empathy - one who is Palestinian American, and the other who is Jewish American. They have a discussion about the current, and continued, ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine.
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Alijah joins Jeff behind the scenes as Laurie jumps in front of the microphone to have a conversation with Sam.
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Sam kidnapped an elf who called Santa with a ransom for the elf's freedom. So today, for no particular reason, Santa is in class today! Joining Sam and Santa is SOC 119 and Stream Team alum, as well as a former World in Conversation staff member, Kristin Newvine.
The three of them explore identity and becoming another person through costumes.
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Xfinity did not want to allow Sam or Jeff to stream Office Hours this week - but they did! The stream ended up failing three times, so this is an edited version putting all three parts together.
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Sam invites Dr. Laurie Muvley, the "Doctor of Dialogue" into the classroom to have an exploration with two groups of students. The goal is to get deeper with questions that make us think.
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Sam, Alijah, and even Jeff gets into the conversation about cult. What is a cult? How do people get involved? Is MAGA a cult? The three of them explore with the live chat.
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Sam invites students to the front of the room to talk to them about empathy. What has been with the major change to the perception of empathy? Is empathy good? Is it bad? Is it neutral?
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Sam invites students from different backgrounds to the front of the room to talk about the narrative around racism and discrimination in the United States. Some important questions are asked.
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Sam is back from Korea! Alijah and Sam talk about his trip, the things he did, and finally, they talk about yesterday's class (with Warren Smith).
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Dr. Sam Richards and his wife, Dr. Laurie Mulvey, invited Warren Smith into SOC 119 to have a conversation about a variety of things. Warren has made a few response videos to Sam and SOC 119 - so it was nice to invite him into the room to have a conversation in person.
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Sam and Laurie invite three groups of Korean students to the front of the room to talk to them about life in Korea and Korean culture.
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This is the final class that is pre-recorded as Sam is on his way back to the United States a few hours after this episode goes live. DJ and her husband, Chaplin Ammon Bailey, talk to the class about Native American perspectives on life.
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Sam and Laurie are joined by Korean model Tae Yeonho to talk about Korean culture from his perspective. They do talk about fashion, beauty, and all things modeling - but they shift the conversations into other directions as well.
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Five students join Sam in the front of the room to talk about white privilege in the United States today. This is one of the most viewed lectures on SOC 119's YouTube Channel with an estimated 10 million views across all videos.
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