Empathy is a useful skill to possess because it is a key tool for tackling issues prevalent across the globe. Empathy can be used to ease …show more content…
It can be used to develop effective solutions that tackle poverty (Segal, 2008) or decrease racism (Pagani & Robustelli, 2010). By simply possessing emotional intelligence, college students increase their chances of succeeding in personal and professional endeavors because of successful interpersonal relationships (Brackett, Rivers, & Salovey, 2011). Empathy can be taught (Hatcher, Nadeau, Walsh, Reynolds, Galea, & Marz, 1994; Sagkal, Turnuklu, & Totan, 2012). In this empathy course, students will take the Interpersonal Reactivity Index test (Davis, 1983) at the beginning and end of the course to measure the effectiveness of the course. The following are the units the course will focus on:
Emotional Intelligence
Development of Empathy
Applications of Empathy
Limitations of Empathy
Synthesis - Exercising Empathy The Emotional Intelligence unit focuses on providing