Civil Enrichment, Public Policy, and Resilient Narratives

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide CES doctoral students with advanced understanding and experience in areas of civil enrichment, public policy, and resilient narratives within global communities. With an emphasis on human rights and community care, this course explores histories of violence and dehumanization; investigates origins of systems of power, privilege, and oppression as they inform public policy and legislative practices; and reaffirms current and ongoing manifestations of supremacy, marginalization, and inequity in communities. Further, this course celebrates the power of communities through a resilience lens, while highlighting principles of cultivating human connectedness and unity through open-heartedness and compassion. Lastly, through relevant information, students are called into action for human rights advocacy and equitable social change