2F — The Students

Introduction

Chapter 1 — Social Action: An Overview

A & B —Social Action’s Role & US College Social Action

C & D — Benefits & Bring Into Class

E — Overcoming Challenges

Chapter 2 — Developing a Social Action Class

A & B — Course vs Co-Curricular & Prerequisites 

C — Creating a Social Action Syllabus

D & E — Teaching Style & Norms

F — The Students

G — Building Allies

H & I — Role of Place & Each Semester v Every Year

J — Maintaining Momentum

Chapter 3 — Launching Student Campaigns

A — On Your Mark

B — Students Choose Their Issue

C — Group Dynamics, part 1

D — Change Theory

E — Building Power

F — Campus Tour

G — Research

H — Group Dynamics, part 2

I — Strategy & Tactics

J — Campaign Kickoff

Chapter 4 — Planning, Implementation, & Evaluation

A — Campaign Plan & Timeline B & C — Implementation & Execution D — Campaign Evaluation E — Finals: Binder & Presentation

Chapter 5 — Where Do We Go From Here?

A & B — Next Semester & Mainstreaming TSA C & D — Internships & Pipeline to Jobs E — Status of Current Campaigns

CHANGE! A Guide to Teaching Social Action

• Chapter 2F: The Students (p. 45-46)

The Students

In CHANGE (teaching guide), it discusses how many students is optimal to be in a class using social action whether it should be lower or upper division, what type of majors will take the class, and the "type" of student who might take the class.

To ensure that there are enough students in a social action course, you may need to recruit students. Scott’s social action course at SJSU was an elective, so there was always a needs to recruit students so that it met the minimum so it would not be cancelled. When Scott started at SJSU, the minimum was 12 students for a class to go, but it changed in his 24 years, and by the end, it was 22 students. If you are in a similar situation, you may need to recruit students. Below are some proven suggestions on how to recruit students:

1) Create and then post a flier, like the ones below, in the main buildings where students are:

2) Email faculty who were teaching courses focusing on social problems, human rights, and/or change, and ask them to invite their students to enroll in the social action class.

3) Email various campus programs (Equal Opportunity Program, Multi-Cultural Centers, Women's Center, LGBTQ+ Center, etc.) and to invite students to enroll in the social action class.

4) Give extra credit in your other classes for students to support the work of the student campaigns. This will create a natural flow of students who want to take social action the following semester since they become so interested in a campaign.

Here is Scott discussing class size and recruiting of students for your social action class:

Question

• Will you have to recruit students? And if yes, how will you recruit them?

Continue to Ch. 2G — Building Allies