Introduction
Chapter 1 — Overview
A — Social Action's Role in U.S. Experiment in Democracy B — US College Social Action C — Benefits of Social Action for Students, Campuses, and Society D — The Vision: Bringing Social Action into the Classroom E — Overcoming Challenges of Teaching Social Action
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 F — The Students G — Building Campus Allies and Community Partners H —The Role of Place / I —Each Semester vs Every Year (or Other Year) J — Using Mural Board (option)
Chapter 3 — Launching Student Campaigns
A — On Your Mark: Preparing Students for the Road Ahead B — Go! Students Choose Their Issue C — Get Set: Setting the Tone D — Change Theory E — Building Power F — Walking Tour G — Research: Historical Overview, Power Mapping, & Target Analysis H — Group Dynamics I — Strategy & Tactics J — Campaign Kickoff
Chapter 4 — Campaign Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
A — Timeline & Campaign Plan B — Campaign Implementation: "Series of Actions" Begins C — Campaign Execution & Case Studies D — Campaign Evaluation E — Day of the Final: Campaign Notebook & 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
Read CHANGE! A Guide to Teaching Social Action
- Campaign Notebook & Group Presentations:Ch. 4E: Day of the Final (p. 135-136)
Discussion
Campaign Binders
On Final's day, the student campaigns hand-in their Campaign Binders. After grading them, I keep the campaign binders in my office, and I bring them out in the beginning of the next semester's social action class for the students to possibly select the campaign, and to "activate it" to be part of the class.
Presentations
On the Final's Day, students teams do a 15-25 minute presentation on their campaign. For this presentation, I have them make a PowerPoint presentation. With other faculty teaching social action at San José State, I thought I would be able to share the campaign binders with my colleagues, but what worked better was to send the faculty the PowerPoint presentation of the student campaigns. See below for some examples of student campaign PowerPoint presentations.
Campaign Case Study
Below is the final presentation of the Students for Filipino Farmworkers campaign.
Upon completion of Chapters 3 and 4, let's look again at the entire campaign for the Students for Filipino Farmworkers:
Reflect on Course Development Questions
- What do you think of the Campaign Notebook as a way to continue the campaigns the following semester, either in a future class you teach or in a social action class taught by another faculty or staff?
- What will be your parting words to the social action students?