Introduction
Chapter 1 — Overview
A — Social Action’s Role & B – U.S. College Social Action
C — Benefits of Social Action & D – Bringing into Classroom
Chapter 2 — Developing a Social Action Class
A — Academic Course vs Co-Curricular & B — Prerequisites
C — Creating a Social Action Syllabus
D — Teaching Style & E — Classroom Norms
G — Building Campus & Community Allies
H —The Role of Place & I —Each Semester vs Every Year
Chapter 3 — Launching Student Campaigns
B — Students Choose Their Issue
Chapter 4 — Campaign Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
A — Campaign Plan & Timeline B — Campaign Implementation: "Series of Actions" Begins C — Campaign Execution D — Campaign Evaluation E — Day of the Final: Campaign Binder & Group Presentation
Chapter 5 — Where to Go From Here
A — Next Semester B — Mainstreaming Social Action C — Social Action Internship Program D — Pipeline to Jobs & Graduate School E — Status of Current Campaigns F — Impact of Social Action on Former Social Action Students
CHANGE! A Guide to Teaching Social Action
- Chapter 5A—Next Semester (p. 137-138)
Discussion
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.
In Scott Myers-Lipton Sociology 164 Social Action class, it was not uncommon for some campaigns continued semester after semester for two or three years. And, occasionally, a campaign would be dormant for a semester or two before being chosen by a new group of students.
Course Development Question
- 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?