Taught By:
Stephanie Sena
Anti-Poverty Fellow
Peace and Justice Studies
Villanova University
stephanie.sena@law.villanova.edu
Read profile here.
Course Description:
Sustainable Solutions to Poverty explores power and democracy. More specifically, this course examines the topics of issue development, change theory, building power, group dynamics, strategy and tactics, and campaign planning and implementation.
Throughout academic life, students are introduced to critiques of our current capitalist neo-colonial systems, and the horrors associated with rapid globalized industrial development. Climate crisis and poverty are putting our ecosystems and livelihoods at the risk of extinction. The problems that we are facing as a species are around 5,000 years old. These problems have inspired people from around the world to create new ideologies and strategies with the purpose of mitigating problems, resolving conflict, and creating a better society. This work of improving the world has existed in conjunction with our problems.
