The course will address issues of social relations between groups, with a focus on the dynamics between majority and minority groups (i.e., groups of unequal status). The course will examine major theories and models within this field, such as the contact hypothesis, the social identity theory, and the social dominance theory, and explore the way people think, feel and behave towards others based on their group membership, the factors that interfere or facilitate constructive intergroup relations, and how reconciliation between groups in conflict can be promoted. The examples examined throughout the course will include contexts of interracial and interethnic relations, such as those between Blacks and Whites in the US, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in Israel, Jews and Germans etc., as well as the relations between the genders and between different groups within an organization. The final grade will be based on a class presentation and the submission of a research proposal (theoretical or empirical) based on the course materials.