Key requirements for an experiential, innovative course in race relations, as well as the process followed for university approval and implementation, are described. The course was offered by a licensed clinical psychologist at a university in the "deep South" during the 1970's, a period of heightened racial tensions, and was part of a special program of courses designed for non-majors. The course included readings in race relations, special speakers, small group discussions and interactions, journals kept by each student and discussed with the instructor, a weekend field trip to a historically Black college, and a one-week, live-in stay in the home of a family of another race during the last third of the course. Student feedback received after each course and from a 20 year follow-up study indicated that this experiential course was perceived as the basis of life-long changes in behaviors and attitudes about race relations.