Chapter 1 — Issue Development Chapter 2 — Setting the Tone Chapter 3 — Change Theory Chapter 4 — Building Power Chapter 5 — Research Chapter 6 — Group Dynamics Chapter 7 — Strategy & Tactics Chapter 8 — Campaign Kickoff Chapter 9 — Campaign Plan Chapter 10 — Campaign Evaluation Chapter 11 — The Hero’s and Shero’s Journey Appendix — Pipeline to Jobs & Graduate School
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.
WRITING ASSIGNMENT
IN-CLASS VIDEOS: The Hero's and Shero's Journey
- The Matrix: The Modern-Day "Cave”: Not Quite Fitting In”
The Matrix: “The Call”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwcljAGfs7Q
The Matrix: “Meeting Morpheus: The Red or Blue Pill”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDadfh0ZdBM
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?