These social action courses feature an experiential learning model where students develop and launch policy-change campaigns of their choosing as part of a course. The student campaigns seek to change a policy (i.e., a rule, law, regulation, norm, or practice of an institution) on campus or in the community.
In this social action model, students choose the campaigns to work on, and they can be from a conservative, liberal, or no ideological perspective. The campaigns must be non-violent and cannot break the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The key is that students learn to do democracy, which is a goal of higher education. Read more about our social action course model here.
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Activism/Organizing
Civic Education
Communications
Environment/Sustainability
Humanities
Leadership
Social Sciences
Social Work
Arun Agrawal
Environment and Sustainability
University of Notre Dame
Austin Harrison
Urban Studies
Rhodes College
Cheyenne Luzynski
Leadership Studies
West Virginia University
Crystal Harris
English
University of Central Arkansas
Lisa Smith
Grace Abbott School of Social Work
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Nora Timmerman
Sustainable Communities
Northern Arizona University
Omotola Akinsola
Social Work
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Sarah Federman
Conflict Resolution
University of San Diego
Travis Cronin
Social Work
CSU Fresno
Zahra Ahmed
Politics
Saint Mary's College