Introduction
Chapter 1 — Social Action: An Overview
Social Action and Its Role on Colleges
Chapter 2 — Developing a Social Action Class
Course vs Co-Curricular & Prerequisites
Creating a Social Action Syllabus
Teaching Style & Classroom Norms
Role of Place & Each Semester v Every Year
Chapter 3 — Teaching Social Action (TSA) Model
Chapter 4 — Where Do We Go From Here?
The Role of Place
Clearly, where your campus is located will affect the student's social action campaigns. The below photo is of Dine College on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. This less densely populated area will impact many aspects of a social action class, as will a campus in the middle of a city.
Questions
Here are some key questions for you to answer about location:
- How will the location of your campus (urban/rural, red/blue state or region) impact your class?
- Is there a history of social action on your campus, and if so, how will this impact your social action class?
- What is the social life like on your campus currently? How will this impact your class?
Each Semester vs. Every Year
If you can not teach your course every semester, t is important to have other faculty who can teach social action at your campus, as this allows for the student campaigns started in your class to continue the following semester.
You can search here to see if other faculty are teaching social action courses on your campus. If you scroll down, there is a map of where all the courses are being taught for the 2026 fall semester. If you can’t find any, please contact us, and we will help brainstorm with you on how to recruit other faculty on your campus to teach social action during the semesters you are not teaching it.
Question:
- As discussed in the reading, it is possible, but rare, for the students to win a campaign in one semester. In light of this, here is a question to consider: What steps can you take to ensure to help support that a class using social action occurs on your campus the semester following your class?
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