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Introduction

Introduction

Our long-term goal in mainstreaming the teaching of social action is for every campus to have a social action course taught every semester. The reason for this is simple: the student campaigns are usually not won in a single semester. As described in the Issue Development section, we encourage faculty to arrange to have these prior student campaigns presented as options for the next class of social action students to consider, whether it you, or another faculty on campus. In Scott’s class, it was not uncommon for some campaigns continued semester after semester for two, three, or even more years. Occasionally, a campaign would be dormant for a semester or two before being chosen by a new group of students.

Please invite colleagues from your campus to attend an upcoming Institute. It is important we get more faculty trained on your campus on how to teach social action so the student campaigns that get started in your class can continue the following semester, and don't die at the end of your class. Also, if you know colleagues at other campuses who might be interested, please invite them to apply to an Institute.

Questions

Can your social action class be taught every semester? Can you ask your chair?
If not, who else might you get to teach a class using social action so that the campaigns have institutional support to thrive and develop?

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Introduction

Chapter 1 — Social Action: An Overview

Chapter 2 — Developing a Social Action Class

Chapter 3 — Teaching Social Action (TSA) Model

Chapter 4 — Where Do We Go From Here?

Introduction

Questions