Peace, Justice, and Human Rights 4500: Advocacy and Action

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SA Summer '23
Status
Approved
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John Carroll University

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Mission-Based Programs

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Engagement Description

Students enter the class with a wide range of interest, but from what I have gathered thus far I anticipate the following issues: health care disparity, refugees, criminal justice, immigration, and hunger/poverty.

Experience

I have taught social action for the past 7 years. 6 of those years was with high school students, and this past year was with college first-years in the Arrupe program. While at the high school level, I taught social action as it connects to Catholic Social Teaching and worked to create a strong semester long project to empower students to create change. At the college level, I have worked with first year students on the topic of nonviolence and creating a vision for what a nonviolent campaign would look like based on areas of injustice they are passionate about.

Interest

As the Director of the Arrupe Social Justice Scholars at JCU and instructor for this course for the first time, I am working diligently to enhance the course from its previous iterations to encourage true advocacy and action rather than charity projects. This course has existed for many years and has taken on many different forms, but now that we are no longer dealing with Covid restrictions there is a strong need to revamp and empower students to create social change. This development program seems to be exactly what I am looking for to prepare as an instructor and to form a solid syllabus/action plan to help students thrive. I am also very attracted to connecting with other professionals who do this work as well.

When Taught

baby- meet in MID NOVEMBER

Semester Teaching
Fall '24Spring '23
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Course Plan
Existing Course
Community Engagement
Social Action
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Major Group
Peace & Conflict
Sub-Group
Religious Studies
Breakout Group
Peace & Conflict
Mtg Category
SA Institute
Mtg Location
Virtual
Mtg Semester
Summer
Mtg Year
2023
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Communication with...

Incredibly, Sadie told me on Jan 2024 that she taught last semester! I had no idea

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