Motivation for Teaching Social Action:
I coordinate the Community Engagement Minor at NAU and am thinking about new ways to organize our fieldwork class. All students in the minor are required to take this 1-credit class three times, in conjunction with their core classes, to learn the skills of community organizing and to put the theories into action. We are always looking for new approaches to make this class meaningful for our students and our community partners.
Course Description:
Students in this course choose an action team, partnered with a local organization, with whom they work on an issue they care about. Students learn skills of social change, including relational organizing, power analysis, issue selection, public action, and skills of outreach and mobilizing.
Taught By:
Leah Mundell
Associate Teaching Professor
Anthropology and Sustainable Communities Department
Northern Arizona University
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